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Published by Publisher James P Moriarty Sales Director Andy Bullen AV Dawson provides smarter supply chain solutions Compass Publications Ltd Editorial Felicity Landon in association with PD Ports Photography PD Ports, Tees Valley Combined Authority, AV Dawson, across Road, Rail, Land and Sea through its Teesside Head Office Inter Terminals, JDR Cables, SABIC UK Petrochemicals, Wilton Engineering Production Editor Linda Roast 17-27 Queen’s Square Print Swallowtail Print freight handling facilities, including shipping and rail Middlesbrough TS2 1AH, UK freight terminals, warehousing and supporting road Tel: +44 (0)1642 877000 www.pdports.co.uk The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher, PD Ports, nor any other organisation associated with this publication. No liability can be transport fleet. Employing around 240 people across the COMPASS accepted for inaccuracies of any description, although the publishers would be pleased to receive amendments for possible inclusion in future editions. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any region AV Dawson is dedicated to the development and means, including photocopying or scanning, without the prior permission of the publishers. Such written permission must also be obtained before any part of the improvement of its employees and the community in publication is stored in a retrieval system of any nature. October 2017 which it operates. PUBLICATIONSCompass Publications LTD. Ltd ISSN 1477-5786 Marcon House, Bailey Street ©2017 Compass Publications Ltd Castle Acre, King’s Lynn 8th Edition Norfolk PE32 2AG United Kingdom AV Dawson, Riverside Park Road, Tel: +44 (0)1760 755783 Email: [email protected] Middlesbrough TS2 1UT www.compass-publications.co.uk T: +44 (0)1642 219271 E: [email protected] W: www.av-dawson.com CONTENTS Foreword Frans Calje Chief Executive Officer of PD Ports 5 Neil Kenley Director of Business Investment Tees Valley Combined Authority 7 Introduction The Tees: Gateway to the world 8 Teesport and Hartlepool Location map 12 PD Ports Background Roots and wings 15 Access Road and Rail Space, depth and versatility: Teesport page 26 Hinterland links 16 The North A united voice for the North 18 SSI Opportunity Upsurge of optimism follows loss of steelworks 22 Teesport Space, depth and versatility: Teesport 26 Hartlepool Hartlepool: a strong maritime heritage 31 Portcentric Portcentric cargo flows34 Petrochemicals Serving and supporting a major chemicals cluster 39

Hartlepool: a strong maritime heritage page 31 Renewables/offshore Offshore and onshore: the energy hub 40 People Tackling the skills gap 44 Flying the flag Private operators The keys to success 49 Port details Information about the Port 60 5 strategically located countries in Northern Europe Port Users Teesport & Hartlepool 16 terminals Port Users Association members 61 Company Directory 4.3 million cubic metres of storage Contact details 62 Index of Advertisers Advertisement page details 64 85+ years of experience Portcentric cargo flows page 34 1st choice in bulk liquid and gas storage

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TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK CONTENTS 3 Foreword by Frans Calje Chief Executive Officer of PD Ports Teesside has a particular strong cluster of experienced and skilled businesses, presenting significant opportunities for the region to attract and win new business. The strength of the industrial landscape on Teesside, the exceptional skill base and the supporting transport infrastructure presents huge opportunities for the region in terms of future job creation, economic prosperity and further inward investment. In a global market that has remained relatively flat over the last 10 years Teesport’s container platform experienced continued significant growth year-on-year since 2010. This has led to some of the The power largest levels of container handling investment to date in support of demand; Our operations at Teesport and Hartlepool driven largely by our portcentric logistics are part of the wider PD Ports business, one activity and the associated cost and of the UK’s major port groups and logistics environmental benefits to customers. experts. to connect Looking ahead we have ambitious plans We are the Statutory Harbour Authority to further develop our bulk handling for 12 miles of river that stretches along capability at Teesport, one of the deepest the Tees and within our jurisdiction we are water ports in the UK. These plans will responsible for ensuring the river is further complement our recent £50M quay maintained and safe to navigate for the redevelopment in support of our strategic 4000+ vessels that visit the Port each year. Delivering power to the World from the vision to expand Teesport’s capacity and The river Tees has a long and proud capability to handle a more diverse range history handling traditional trading platforms North East. High-performance subsea of commodities across a number of new of steel, oil and chemicals which in recent market sectors. cables and umbilicals to connect the years has seen dramatic and profound Our investments at PD Ports are designed change; impacting many of our customers to respond to our customers’ needs whose global offshore energy industry. and tenants as well our as our business. businesses rely on our ports for access These challenges which we have faced In the world’s harshest environments and ever-increasing water to international and domestic markets. in recent years have played a significant Supporting our customers and river users as depths, JDR’s world-leading products and services bring power role in how we have galvanised our they compete on global markets will be key and control to offshore oil, gas and renewable energy systems. business and subsequent investments to to our own future success and that of the maintain those traditional sectors whilst For more than 20 years, we have built our success on our River Tees and its port users. technical expertise and reliability. Every market we enter, successfully diversifying into new and growing markets. every customer we serve, and every project we deliver In the last decade we have seen over benefits from our dedication to technical quality, £1BN of direct and third party investment service and support. at Teesport and Hartlepool. This is largely driven by the confidence Visit jdrglobal.com to find out more. inward investors have in Teesside, the Port, the available skills, the wider industrial Frans Calje supply chain and its supporting Chief Executive Officer of PD Ports infrastructure network, which combined have attracted some major infrastructure projects to the region. This is complemented by our own direct investment in support of our strategic development plan and organic growth of existing customer platforms. We have seen real success stories along the river in the offshore sector where

TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK FOREWORD 5 Redcar Bulk Terminal Limited Foreword by Neil Kenley Director of Business Investment Tees Valley Combined Authority

Redcar Bulk Terminal Limited operates a 320 metre long quay which can accommodate vessels up to 17 metres draft and is fitted with two Rail Mounted Gantry Cranes (one 63-tonne and one 42-tonne) with both bulk and hook capability. In Bulk (Grab) mode working in unison they are capable of achieving offloading rates in excess of 40,000 tonnes per day.

The wharf is HMRC approved and enjoys direct rail access to the National Rail Network with excellent road links to both A19 and A1(M). Genco Commodus 169,098 dwt - discharging Iron Ore It gives me great pleasure to introduce the The area has already seen significant latest edition of the Tees Valley Logistics investment over the last year alone, with Vessel size (max) Rail traffic Handbook. 60 companies investing more than Length 304 metres Redcar Bulk Terminal is equipped to handle rail There have been a lot of developments in £300 million in the area, creating around Tees Valley in the last year, as we continue 600 jobs. Projects already underway Beam 48 metres wagons with separate on site load and offload bulk to see significant successes across our include MGT Power in Redcar, as well as Draft 17 metres handling facilities. The loading of rail wagons is carried manufacturing, engineering and logistics announcements by Sirius Minerals and Peak sectors, as well as new and emerging Resources to establish mineral processing out by overhead hoppers directly fed by conveyors The Terminal area which is immediately adjacent to sectors such as renewable energy and the plants in the region. These three investments whilst off-loading of rail wagons is achieved by bottom composites industries. alone represent over £1 billion of new the quay extends over an area of 320 acres providing The Tees Valley Combined Authority investment, demonstrating the confidence discharge into an underground hopper and conveyor both short/long term storage for both bulk and continues to grow and the new Tees Valley companies have in Tees Valley. system linked directly to the stock yards enabling the Mayor is an exciting new development. conventional cargoes alike. We are looking forward to seeing improve- Working together swift handling of rail traffic to and from the terminal. ments in the area with the extra powers we As the Local Enterprise Partnership for Working hours will now have at a local level to support Tees Valley, we work with private sector our businesses and infrastructure. partners to help businesses looking to invest The Terminal operates 24 hour a day, all year round in the area. We can help with finding the with its own dedicated and well trained workforce Business Support right location, provide information on the Tees Valley Combined Authority has also workforce, training and skills available in which includes a full complement of highly skilled welcomed changes to business support, the area and help access support services. electrical and mechanical engineers as well as fitters, with Tees Valley now designated an It has never been easier to invest in Assisted Area ‘A’ by the European Tees Valley. platers and welders together with on-site workshop Commission. This means more support facilities and is able to provide engineering support will be available to improve the levels of funding available for eligible businesses if required. taking on investment projects which will lead to sustainable growth and job Redcar Bulk Terminals Limited is both ISO 9001 and creation. ISO 14001 accredited Neil Kenley Director of Business Investment Tees Valley Combined Authority

Redcar Bulk Terminal Lackenby Main Office, Lackenby Works, Middlesborough TS6 7RP, United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0) 1642 406444 Email: [email protected] www.redcarbulkterminal.co.uk

TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK FOREWORD 7 Teesside should be right at the heart of the industrial strategy of the UK

The Tees: Gateway to the world Containers, consumer goods, logistics, n A key driver of the North East economy, chemicals, energy, renewables: the multi- supporting more than 5,000 direct and modal hub that hubs that are Teesport and indirect jobs. Hartlepool plays a pivotal role in countless n Close to the second largest integrated complex, efficient, time-sensitive, crucial chemical sector in Europe. processing and supply chains. And there is so much more to come. There The industrial, engineering and is a real sense of focus in the region and manufacturing heartland of northern Britain at the port, Frans Calje, Chief Executive has always turned to the Ports of Teesport Officer of PD Ports says: “The emphasis is and Hartlepool as its gateway to the world, on what Teesside is capable of. Teesside and today is no different. From tea to train should be right at the heart of the industrial body shells, from petrochemicals to pipes, strategy of the UK – not just talking about it, the two ports continue to provide the facili- but delivering. ties, equipment and expertise on which “We are looking forward and there exporters and importers depend. are areas of real growth opportunity that As emphasised in Gateways to the we have already been working on very Northern Powerhouse, the Northern Ports successfully. Just one example is our £50 Strategy produced by the Institute of Public million investment in Number 1 Quay at Policy Research in 2016, the North is Tees Dock, which offers one of the deepest already punching above its weight when it operational bulk berths in the UK. comes to freight and port activities. And no Combined with the facilities at Redcar Bulk more so than at Teesport & Hartlepool: Terminal, we have what is probably the n The largest container port on the north best bulk handling capability in the UK. east coast. “Our container throughput has been n The UK’s best-connected feeder port, growing by 12% a year for the past eight with more than 25 vessel calls per week years to its current 500,000 teu – and we to more than 13 strategic markets and are continuing our great relationships with connections to most of the world’s largest our existing customer base. We have shipping lanes. invested heavily in our container facilities n A major hub for exports, as well as and are planning a further phase of imports. investment to increase capacity again; our Northern Gateway Container Terminal project is very much alive.” Unit load volumes are expected to continue upwards at a rate of 8-10% a

8 INTRODUCTION TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK INTRODUCTION 9 year and throughput of 650,000 teu is Investment continues very much on the horizon, says Frans Calje. PD Ports has invested significantly in Plans are being drawn up to convert and enhancing its operational platform at upgrade berthing to potentially Teesport in the last five years including accommodate 8,000-10,000 teu vessels quays, cranes, equipment and IT. and take capacity to more than n February 2016 saw the official launch 1 million teu. of Teesport’s £50 million, 780-metre PD Ports champions the portcentric deepwater Number One Quay. The concept and in this it continues to excel. investment has created the capability to As PD Ports becomes ever more involved accommodate two fully laden 235- in the supply chains of its customers, the metre-long panamax vessels simultaneously, question is always: “What can we do for in water 14.5 metres deep. you? How can we help?” The new quay, served by direct rail links Meanwhile, PD Ports continues to press and with substantial warehousing close by, forward as a hub for energy – both opens up opportunities in a number of traditional and renewable. MGT Teesside’s sectors. Construction in ongoing for phase 299 MW biomass power station is moving three of the quay to complete the project ahead. The energy plant is a major part and offer further deepwater berths at the of our repositioning transformation and port. redevelopment of not just Teesport but the n PD Ports has invested more than £1.5 whole Teesside area. million in training and development in the The Tees continues to play a vital role in past five years. For 16 years, it has been supporting and servicing the heavy-duty supporting apprenticeship schemes, with offshore industry, including the burgeoning more than 70 people taking part. Around wind farm sector. 65% of completed apprenticeships have In short, we can expect rapid expansion been in engineering specialities, including and transformation of port activities at mechanical, electrical and joinery. Teesport. Others have included dock operations, “PD Ports is committed to strengthening administration and hydrographic surveying. and developing Teesport as a major driver n Teesport Logistics Park offers opportu- in the Northern Powerhouse,” says Frans nities on a significant scale. Phase One Calje. “We are thinking wider as we featured major developments for Asda and invest and develop in anticipation of our Tesco. Phase Two has made 28.9 acres customers’ demands. We are one of the available, suitable for up to 477,230 safest rivers in the country from an square feet of warehousing, on a develop- operational perspective, thanks to our focus ment or build-to-suit basis. As well as on the health and safety agenda, supported providing ideal portcentric solutions, the by investment in our harbour management area of the logistics park is within the system. Our focus is firmly on the future.” South Bank Enterprise Zone, which provides a number of financial and planning advantages for eligible activities.

PD Ports is committed to strengthening and developing Teesport as a major driver in the Northern Powerhouse

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12 LOCATION MAP TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK LOCATION MAP 13 Owned by parent company Brookfield, PD Ports has continued to go from strength to strength Roots and wings PD Ports has deep roots going back to the 2009: PD Ports became part of 19th century, whilst its current ownership Brookfield Asset Management, a Canadian ensures it has the momentum to continue to company with a 100-year history of grow. The past half-century has seen a owning and operating assets, with a succession of ownership changes at focus on property, renewable power, Teesport, but expertise and experience infrastructure and private equity. As part have been constant throughout. of Brookfield, PD Ports has continued to go 1966: Under an Act of Parliament, the from strength to strength. Tees Conservancy Commissioners became As well as the Ports of Teesport and Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority (THPA). Hartlepool, PD Ports owns and operates 1992: Three partners, Powell Duffryn, the short sea ports of Groveport, Keadby 3i and Humberside Holdings, each took a and Howden on the Trent and Ouse, and one-third interest in THPA. Medina Wharf on the Isle of Wight. 1995: The business became 100% It provides logistics and warehousing at owned by Powell Duffryn (Ports & the Port of Felixstowe, Scunthorpe and Engineering Group), building on a world- Billingham. wide reputation for engineering, bulk liquid storage, construction, wagon manufacture, fuel distribution and shipping. Powell Duffryn traces its origins to a South Wales coal mining company founded in about 1810. 2000: Japanese banking group Nikko Principal Investments acquired PD Ports as part of a £507 million takeover of Powell Duffryn. 2004: Nikko sold PD Ports to PD Ports plc, which successfully floated the company on the London Stock Market. 2005: Australian investment company Babcock and Brown Infrastructure (BBI) became the owner of PD Ports. Statutory responsibilities As Statutory Harbour Authority for handling, ship repair, offshore the Tees, PD Ports is responsible support and renewable operations. for vessel traffic management, PD Ports has a modern harbour ensuring safe navigation and office which looks after the arrival maintaining channel depths and departure of around 4,350 throughout the Ports of Teesport vessels a year on the River Tees and Hartlepool. and at Hartlepool. From here, The breadth and diversity of the vessel traffic services is port operations across this area responsible for ensuring safe and is staggering – encompassing efficient navigation, including the petrochemical and liquid bulk coordinating pilotage and towage storage operations at Seal Sands, requirements. where the Ekofisk pipeline lands at ConocoPhillips’ facility; the deepwater jetties of Redcar Bulk Terminal; and a range of cargo

14 PD PORTS BACKGROUND TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PD PORTS BACKGROUND 15 fast-flowing roads and Few regions are as well connected as the the A19, A1(M) and M1 national links for infrastructure, and it has pressed ahead are plans to establish further routes to the more rail-linked sites Tees Valley and its ports, which benefit from north and south, as well as to the M6 and with providing valuable new rail services. Midlands and the North West in line with fast-flowing roads and more rail-linked M5 motorways. Teesport’s intermodal rail terminal was market demand. than any comparable area sites than any comparable area in the Hartlepool has two primary routes, the constructed in 2014. It opened for Without a doubt, rail is a vital part of the in the North of England North of England. Both Durham Tees Valley A179 and the A689, both linked to the business with container services to and from mix when it comes to Teesport’s position as and Newcastle International Airports are A19 dual carriageway, and Billingham, Felixstowe operated by Freightliner. More the UK’s northern gateway for containerised located within a short distance of the port another key PD Ports site, is easily accessed choices were soon added, with a goods. facilities at Teesport and Hartlepool. from the A19. connection established to Mossend and “The aim is to create rail links to other Grangemouth in Scotland by PD Ports in industrial hubs and commercial hotspots, in Hinterland Road Rail conjunction with DB Cargo. order to expand our hinterland,” says Geoff Teesport has direct access to the A66 Teesport has direct rail links via the East The rail freight option is an important part Lippitt, PD Ports Business Development Trans-pennine east and west routes. This Coast Main Line and Trans-Pennine routes of the portcentric advantages taken up by Director. “This is an important topic in our ensures fast and congestion-free access to to all parts of the UK. With increasing major retailers, chemical manufactures and Northern Ports partnership; we are collab- links emphasis on using rail for low-carbon, shipping lines using Teesport, and there orating over issues that really matter for lower cost, efficient freight transport, the Northern economy and improving the PD Ports is at the forefront of the campaign North’s rail connections and infrastructure is to increase the North of England’s rail a top priority.”

The aim is to create rail links to other industrial hubs and commercial hotspots

16 ACCESS ROAD AND RAIL TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK ACCESS ROAD AND RAIL 17 PD Ports haS always been at the forefront of developing economic growth through investments

A unified voice is a clearer and stronger Supercorridor to enable them to grow the the UK’s Northern ports but also highlights “With over £1 billion invested in the voice – a reality that is behind a unique region’s economy even further. the fact that 60% of freight destined for the ports themselves, the Government must new partnership in the North. “These are going to be changing North is still delivered to southern ports, now put in its £100 million to create an A united In mid 2016, PD Ports signed an economic times for the whole of the UK; leading to unnecessary motorway traffic, East-West Freight Supercorridor and end agreement with other major ports across the therefore it’s important that the North and delays, pollution and inefficiency. the costly and inefficienct movement of North of England, which will ensure that the Northern ports are seen as a progressive “Britain was a trading nation long before lorries up and down the country,” says UK Government hears a unified voice when body to drive through that change,” says the European Union was ever thought of the report. it comes to improving freight and transport Geoff Lippitt, PD Ports’ Business Develop- and that fact will not change, despite the voice for links across the North. ment Director. “We at PD Ports have Brexit vote,” says IPPR North director Ed The members of the Northern Ports always been at the forefront of developing Cox. “We need a global North now like Association are united in pursuing a economic growth through our investments, never before, so it is fantastic to see the Northern Ports Strategy, working together to and this complements what we are North’s port operators coming together to the North create new jobs in and around ports, and already achieving locally, regionally and work to closely.” boost investment in an East-West Freight nationally.” The Northern Ports Strategy calls for ‘Gateways to the Northern Powerhouse: investment so that the ports can ‘continue to A Northern Ports Strategy’, compiled punch above their weight’. by independent think tank IPPR North, recognises the considerable strengths of

18 THE NORTH TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK THE NORTH 19 TeesValley TeesValley A Multimodal Logistics Hub Enterprise Zones

Tees Valley has an attractive offering for any company wanting to invest in the area. There are a wide range of cost-effective sites and premises across Tees Valley, with 12 Whether it’s starting up a new business or an opportunity to grow or relocate an existing Enterprise Zones and a total of 423 hectares available for new business investment. business, we have the supporting infrastructure to make things happen for you. The sites offer financial incentives to companies choosing to locate here, as well as simplified planning and super-fast broadband.

Finding the right premises for your Four sites offer Enhanced Capital business Allowances:

Help for your next move

Tees Valley Combined Authority, which includes the Local Enterprise Partnership, has a dedicated Business Investment Team with a wealth of experience and knowledge, and a network of specialist Eight sites offer Business Rate Simplified planning organisations in both the public and private sector, that can help potential investors. Relief: The services we offer include pre-investment support, advising on sites, recruitment and skills, financial support and post-investment assistance, helping companies to contact potential customers and suppliers and helping to grow their businesses. Superfast broadband To find out more, speak to a member of the Business Investment Team.

Find out more about how investing in Tees Valley could help your business by contacting a member of the Business Investment Team: Twitter Facebook Linked In 01642 524400 [email protected] www.teesinvest.co.uk @TeesValleyCA TeesValleyCA TeesValleyCA We have a real opportunity There was gloom after Thai steel company PD Ports’ land on the south bank, there are to create onE of the SSI UK closed its Redcar blast furnace in more than 4,500 acres of prime land,” 2015, making nearly 2,000 steelworkers says Frans Calje, chief executive of largest Free Zones redundant – but now, as Lord Heseltine has PD Ports. “This will involve a lot of effort in the UK said, that’s not the mood at all. and a huge amount of political, business At the launch of the Tees Valley Strategic and social will to turn it into something quite Economic Plan, which sets out the Tees special. Valley Combined Authority’s economic “It would make sense to keep it for vision for the area until 2026, Lord industrial, advanced manufacturing and Upsurge of Heseltine said he felt a huge upsurge in engineering, logistics and supply chain optimism in the area. operations. We have a real opportunity to Closure of the Redcar blast furnace, with create one of the largest Free Ports zones its the associated exports and imports, had in the UK and attract inward investment optimism a big impact on Teesport – but the response where goods could come in for added- from PD Ports and all those involved is value work and be re-exported, free of proactive and positive. duty, and where energy could be supplied “SSI UK has vacated a 2,500-acre area at the lowest cost possible. follows loss around Teesport. When you include “This land can be a magnet for investors and a huge centre of employment, competing not locally but with Europe and beyond. We are confident we have a viable, plausible and deliverable solution of steelworks for this unique area of land.”

22 SSI OPPORTUNITY TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK SSI OPPORTUNITY 23 Waste Oil Collections, Recycling and Environmental Services

The new South Tees Development Corporation – the first Mayoral Develop- ment outside London – will take over management of the land, leading the vision for the SSI site and the surrounding area. Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen says, “The South Tees site is an area of great opportunity. It has excellent access to infrastructure, good transport connections, and a catchment area with an exceptional This land can skilled workforce. It benefits from access to Teesport, one of the UK’s largest deep be a magnet for water ports, and thereby creates new Bilge, sludge, engine slops, oil cargo Disposal of hazardous and non- opportunities to access international markets. The site provides a unique investors and washings and waste oil. hazardous waste in bulk and drums. environment for industrial use, with land particularly suitable for new investment in the process and energy sectors, and a wide a huge centre Sewage clearances and maintenance 24 hour emergency spill response. range of other global business sectors.” of pump stations and sewage PD Ports will play a crucial role in this of employment, vision. A huge amount was invested in treatment plants. Service available by road tanker or berthing specifically to meet SSI’s needs barge at the following ports: Tees – with depth, strength and space – and competing not Tank cleaning services and disposal of and Hartlepool, Tyne and Wear, the positive side is that this berth is now available at Teesport and opening up a lot tank washings. Seaham and Blythe. of opportunities. JUST locally “Teesport is a key gateway for goods serving the north of the UK and will be a but with Europe major driver in Government realising the Northern Powerhouse agenda”, says Frans Calje. and beyond

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TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK SSI OPPORTUNITY 25 PD Ports handles more than 4,350 vessels and 27 million tonnes of cargo a year

Space, depth and versatility: Teesport

26 TEESPORT TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT 27 Less than a mile from the mouth of the River compounds perfectly suited for handling seen a strong uplift in freight units in 2016, Tees, Teesport offers lock-free deepwater vehicles, plant and machinery. and P&O Ferries has stated that Teesport’s berths with swift access to and from the The port benefits from private rail sidings road and rail transport connections with North Sea. Here, PD Ports operates one linked to the main UK network, with trains major cities on the west coast of England of the largest container ports in the North handling the full range of cargoes. are providing a key attraction for FROM RWANDA of England, and provides a ‘one-stop- Teesport’s strength is in its diversity, and customers. shop’ logistics solution for numerous supply PD Ports offers breathtaking versatility and P&O Ferries highlighted Teesport’s chains. flexibility across cargo handling, convenience as a gateway for the likes of The port estate covers nearly 800 acres; warehousing and supply chain expertise. Manchester and Liverpool, as well as its TO MIRANDA physically it is embedded in the wider Cargoes range from agribulks, ‘outstanding connectivity’ to Scotland via its industrial area, and port operations here petrochemicals and engineered items for daily trains to Mossend. “It is not difficult to have always provided the support required the offshore renewables sector, to timber, see why more exporters are choosing the VIA TEESPORT by its neighbouring industrial activities. semi-finished goods and high street route.” Understanding what the customer really consumer goods. needs – and proactively looking for the General cargo right solutions – comes naturally to PD Ports. Containers Teesport’s three general cargo berths At Teesport, PD Ports handles more than PD Ports operates two container terminals, handle a variety of commodities, including Miranda loves a good cup of tea before she That’s what we did for Taylors of Harrogate 4,350 vessels and 27 million tonnes of TCT1 and TCT2, providing a total capacity grain, other dry cargoes and project starts work. She drinks Yorkshire Tea; milk, and that’s what we can do for you. cargo a year. Berthing is available with of 650,000 teu. Between them, they cargoes. Among recent developments, in one sugar. But before she switches on the depth alongside of up to 14.5 metres, and handle both direct and feeder vessels. 2016, PD Ports signed a three-year deal kettle, before she goes to the supermarket If you import it, Teesport it. there is more than enough room to meet Teesport is the largest container port on with Glencore Agriculture UK, one of the the needs of the most space-hungry cargo the North east coast and the UK’s best- world’s major crushers of soya bean and and long before the shelves are stacked; operations. connected feeder port, and volumes oilseed rape, to use Teesport as its northern To see how we can help you call Teesport made sure her tea was where it There has been very significant invest- continue to increase at a significant rate distribution hub. ( ) needed to be. +44 0 1642 877 000 or visit ment in reconstructing its quay; in cranes year-on-year. www.pdports.co.uk and handling equipment; and in bespoke Serving the UK from the North East, Teesport warehousing solutions close to the quay- Roll-on/roll-off brings your goods closer to home and closer side. Teesport and its hinterland has more Teesport also has three ro-ro berths – two to your customers, saving you time, money than 4 million square feet of covered within the main port area and one on the and reducing impact on the environment. warehousing, as well as substantial open river. P&O Ferries operates two long- storage areas, including extensive surfaced established services out of the Tees, linking to Zeebrugge six days a week and to Rotterdam three days a week. The Zeebrugge route in particular has

TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT 29 a busy, successful and strategic port, thanks to its deep water, easy access to the North Sea...and its space Hartlepool: a strong maritime heritage

30 HARTLEPOOL TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK HARTLEPOOL 31 When British shipbuilding and coal mining specialist heavy lift quay area for project EDF were at their height, Hartlepool was the and out-of-gauge cargoes, a roll-on/roll- The huge Teesside Wind Farm was second largest port in the country. off berth, 500,000 square feet of covered assembled and installed using Hartlepool Those industries may no longer be active, warehousing, storage compounds for as an important base, and the port remains but Hartlepool remains a busy, successful vehicles, plant and machinery, and private vital to the facility’s ongoing success. EDF and strategic port, thanks to its deep water, rail sidings. has built a new O&M (operations and easy access to the North Sea and its space Hartlepool handles 500,000 tonnes a maintenance) facility to support the Teesside – lots of space. year of dry bulks, timber, steel, project and Wind Farm, incorporating a new training The docks and surrounding estate cover general cargoes – including about 70,000 facility. more than 300 acres, and large areas of tonnes a year of baled refuse derived fuel open land meet the needs of some very (RDF), exported to the Baltic States for use Decommissioning demanding cargo, offshore and logistics in power stations. Forecasts vary when it comes to the future operations. life of the North Sea oil and gas sector – “The amount of land we have immed- Heerema but what’s certain is that decommissioning iately next to the quay is very unusual,” A major operator at Hartlepool is the of platforms and rigs is going to increase. says Sean Beach, PD Ports Operations Heerema Fabrication Group, which Hartlepool has the space and facilities for Manager for Hartlepool. “This is the legacy specialises in the engineering and decommissioning. of Hartlepool’s shipbuilding and coal fabrication of large and complex structures history. Companies with major projects for the offshore oil & gas and energy- Omya have a blank canvas here.” related industries, including the renewable Omya, the Switzerland-based white Pipe spooling and spool loading, a energy sector. minerals and chemicals supplier, has notoriously space-hungry operation, is Heerema Hartlepool has two huge, operated a plant at Hartlepool for the regularly carried out at Hartlepool – the purpose-built fabrication halls on its past three decades. Here, Omya UK After more than a decade in the offshore wind business and following several successfully completed joint offshore port is one of only a very few in the country 76,400 square metre site, with direct processes white dolomite (calcium wind projects, German steel fabricator EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH and Danish steel construction company that can offer pipe spooling up to 900 access to a 355 metre, 15,000 tonne magnesium carbonate). The raw material Bladt Industries A/S have joined together to establish Offshore Structures (Britain) Ltd. metres in length. capacity quayside for large loadouts. is sourced from Norway – the rock is Hartlepool is perfectly located as a quarried by a sister company and shipped Registered in November 2014 and formally opened on 14th September 2015 by the Mayor of Stockton-on-Tees, project logistics base for the offshore oil & JDR Cable to Hartlepool, where it is processed to Councillor Ian Dalgarno, OSB are based by the River Tees and have 17ha (42 acre) of land, more than 13,000 square gas industry and also for the burgeoning JDR Cables designs and manufactures produce a range of high brightness fillers metres of steel manufacturing facilities and 2,000 square metres of blasting and painting facilities. The facilities are offshore wind sector, providing berths for complex subsea cables, umbilicals and and extenders which are used in paints, particularly well suited for the serial production of large tubular offshore wind foundations, most notably transition pieces exploration vessels and massive jack-up IWOCS (Intervention Work Over Control plastics, construction materials and other vessels, facilities for project mobilisation, Systems) for the offshore energy industry, for monopile foundations, jackets and pin piles. industrial applications. demobilisation and decommissioning, and including oil & gas and offshore wind, at its space for wind turbine towers, blades, deepwater quayside manufacturing facility 2 2 2 2 Total area 170,000m l Workshops 6,000m l Automated production facility 7,800m l Blast/painting 2,000m cable reels and other components. in Hartlepool, the most advanced cable Quay length 250m with a depth of 4.2m l Load out quay 6,000 tonnes l Wet dock 250m x 76m Hartlepool has excellent road links as factory in the world. well as a direct rail freight link to the main Since opening the facility in 2009, UK network. JDR Cables has steadily expanded; it has It has five general cargo berths, all invested £10 million in its facilities, Offshore Structures (Britain) Ltd Haverton House Haverton Hill Billingham TS23 1PZ l l l l with depth alongside of up to 8 metres, a including in its G Shed Building, which is +44 (0) 1642 686 140 l [email protected] l [email protected] equipped to build big umbilicals for the oil www.offshorestructures.uk & gas industry.

TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK HARTLEPOOL 33 well established as the UK’s best connected feeder port, but that isn’t all...

Portcentric cargo flows PD Ports champions the concept of channel pick and pack operations, and portcentric logistics and today, the logic of e-commerce and returns management. unloading, unpacking and storing cargo “Developments in the past two or three at the port, ready for onward dispatch to years in our portcentric model have been where it’s needed, when it’s needed, is driven as much by trading patterns as by widely used. new developments,” says Geoff Lippitt, PD Ports, however, continues to lead the PD Ports’ Business Development Director. way, due to the sophistication, flexibility “We are well established as the UK’s best and sheer size of its portcentric operations. connected feeder port, but that isn’t all. What’s at the root of that? The answer is We have seen some really material shifts in talking – really talking – to the customer, import flows as customers bring cargo from to reach a clear understanding of the the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe into customer’s priorities and unique set of the Tees, as well as their traditional volumes challenges. PD Ports’ carefully tailored from Asia via feeder services. portcentric logistics solutions deliver real “We now have direct services from the efficiency, reducing costs and carbon Baltic almost daily, operated by footprint for the customer. Containerships and MacAndrews, and More than 4 million square feet of Mediterranean links by a number of portcentric warehousing connected to port operators to supplement the Asia business. activity is now in operation at Teesport On top of that, we have seen the growth and in its hinterland. PD Ports offers an of P&O Ferries services to and from immensely varied range of options – from Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. This growth the giant quayside import centres of was connected with the Scottish rail service some of the UK’s largest supermarkets to we established – a key development which supporting the staggering growth in expanded our hinterland even further.” demand for online shopping, with multi- Portcentric operations come in two distinct ‘flavours’: n Warehousing at the port or very close to the port – for example, the Asda and Tesco import centres at Teesport. n Warehousing/operations slightly further

34 PORTCENTRIC TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PORTCENTRIC 35 Quality and expertise in shipping operations

• Portrack Seafreight Limited offers quality loading and offloading of vessels up to 5,000 tonnes • We operate at Bamletts Wharf – 110 metres long with 3.5 metres of water at low tide • Our services are available seven days a week • Comprehensive range of equipment and stevedoring skills • Customer focused operations

Through our sister company, Portrack Handling Limited, we also offer storage and dispatch of all CF Fertilisers UK Ltd and provide highly specialised contract labour for the chemical industry on Teesside.

Portrack Seafreight Limited The Grange Business Centre I Belasis Avenue I Billingham I TS23 1LG away which are heavily reliant on the Phase 2 is planned to capitalise on this Tel: 01642 558276 I Fax: 01642 554063 resources of the port as a node in their success and expand the park to meet the Email: [email protected] supply chain – for example, Argos’s demands of modern retail warehousing and distribution depot at Faverdale and Hitachi logistics operators. Rail Europe’s manufacturing facility at There is up to 11.7 hectares/28.9 acres Newton Aycliffe. suitable for up to 44,365 square metres Both Tesco and Asda have altered their (477,230 square feet) of warehousing supply chains according to the evolving with land available for development or needs of the market, says Geoff Lippitt. build-to-suit opportunities. “Asda also has a strong relationship with Clipper Logistics at Wynyard. Tesco has really embraced the concept of portcentric warehousing and move different lines through its facility at different times of the year.” Argos and Hitachi are also key Specialists in the manufacture portcentric customers, importing cargo of structures and equipment via shortsea container and ferry services, used in the renewable energy, for their distribution centres at Faverdale Strategic marine and offshore oil & gas and Newton Aycliffe respectively. Other industries, primarily for pipe, portcentric customers include Taylors of umbilical and cable handling, Harrogate and Lotte Chemicals. logistics site: storage and laying. Undoubtedly, land availability is a key advantage in providing portcentric logistics Billingham Since 2013 we have successfully solutions. However, Geoff Lippitt says: manufactured and installed 24 pipe/cable “It is more than just land. The secret of our PD Ports’ Billingham site provides cluster of processing plants in the ship carousel systems 1500t to 7000t success is the frequency and range of one of the largest warehousing surrounding area, features a total capacity, with ancillary equipment and cross-docking complexes in 195,000 square feet of covered including 15t and 45t tensioners, vessel calls we have. It is a symbiotic process; you can’t have one without the the Tees Valley. PD Ports offers warehousing and extensive outside chutes, loading arms and both dedicated and multi-user storage. over-boarding systems. other. “We focus on our long-term relationships logistics solutions, with expertise Services include bulk and racked Marine Fabricators Ltd with our customers – both the cargo owners across paper and forest products, storage, drive-in racking, contract Bays 1-7, Unit 1 and the shipping lines. The emphasis is on packaging, foodstuffs and general logistics, shared user logistics, Haverton Hill Industrial Estate collaborative working to solve supply chain merchandise. container devanning, load Stockton-on-Tees TS23 1PZ problems. We have consistently grown and PD Ports’ logistics offices are consolidation, re-packing, order Telephone: +44 (0)1642 565646 based at the Billingham facility. picking and contract packing. Fax: +44 (0)1642 565687 refined our portcentric offering, and that The 12.5 acre site, strategically Email: [email protected] focus will continue.” www. marinefabricators.co.uk Teesport Logistics Park, the largest retailer located to support the significant backed portcentric logistics park in the UK, has already completed Phase 1 and attracted the investment of two of the UK’s largest retailers.

TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PORTCENTRIC 37 Teesport has the facilities and expertise to handle MANY products, including industrial chemicals in bulk and in containers Serving and supporting a major chemicals cluster Teesport is located near the second largest Terminal at Seal Sands receives North Sea integrated chemical sector in Europe, home crude oil and gas via the Ekofisk pipeline to 58% of the UK’s chemical sector which as well as from J Block, and processes this exports £12 billion of cargo annually. The for re-export. world’s petrochemical majors have chosen Others include SABIC, INEOS Nitriles at Teesport for importing, refining, storing, Seal Sands, Venator, Lotte Chemicals, converting, blending, manufacturing, CF Fertilisers, Navigator and Inter adding value and exporting their products. Terminals. As Geoff Lippitt, PD Ports’ Business The reason for locating where they do Development Director says: “The whole is obvious: Teesport has the facilities and chemical sector is an important cornerstone expertise to handle their products, in our volumes.” including industrial chemicals in bulk Some of the UK’s biggest petrochemical and in containers. complexes are located on the north and south banks of the River Tees, and these facilities play a vital role in the supply and distribution chain of a highly significant cluster. Two miles from Teesport, more than 8,000 people work at the Wilton International chemicals park/manufacturing site, which is owned and operated by Some of the Sembcorp Utilities Teesside (SUTL). This 2,000-acre site, which has UK’s biggest Enterprise Zone status, is home to numerous process industry manufacturing operations – not only ‘traditional’ petrochemical but petrochemical also those involving green energy, biofuels and plastics recycling, as well as minerals complexes are processing, automotive and advanced manufacturing. Firms on the site benefit from shared located on the access to low-cost power, steam and other utilities, and many have direct pipeline feeds from Seal Sands. north and south In December 2016, the Australian firm Peak Resources announced plans to base banks of the a £70 million mineral processing site at Wilton International. This would be Wilton’s second mineral processing facility, with River Tees Sirius UK already planning to use Wilton for processing the minerals it mines. Peak Resources managing director Darren Townsend described the choice of Tees Valley for the refinery as ‘compelling’. Global names on the Tees include ConocoPhillips, whose Teesside Oil

38 PETROCHEMICALS TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PETROCHEMICALS 39 the Tees is perfectly located to support WIND FARM projects, reinforcing its reputation as a major energy hub

Offshore and onshore: the energy hub Offshore and onshore, traditional and projects, reinforcing its reputation as a renewable, the Port of Tees and Hartlepool major energy hub. continues to deliver in its role as an Over the next few years, a new 299 energy hub. MWe biomass-fuelled combined heat and The Port and the surrounding area power plant will take shape on the Teesport already have a long history, with the skills estate. The MGT Teesside plant, due to and facilities required, in supporting the start commercial operations in 2020, is the very demanding offshore oil and gas highly visible latest example of Teesport’s sector. In recent years, the dividing line strategic importance in the renewable between ‘traditional’ and renewable energy sector. offshore sectors has become increasingly Viewed from the mouth of the Tees, the blurred, with significant overlaps between impressive Teesside Wind Farm is another the technologies, innovation and dramatic example. Hartlepool provided the companies serving the two sectors. base, facilities and support for construction Hence, Teesside’s related skills and and installation of this project, and EDF facilities are increasingly in demand. Energy is now operating its new O&M With the construction of vast new (operations and maintenance) and training offshore wind farms moving ahead in the centre at the port. North Sea, it goes without saying that the And for another very visible example, in Tees is perfectly located to support these mid-2016 Teesport welcomed one of the biggest wind farm installation vessels in the world, the Pacific Orca. Measuring 161 metres long and 49 metres in width, the vessel berthed at PD Ports’ Number One Quay for several weeks, while being fitted with a pile gripper that was constructed onsite. Teesside’s related After her inaugural visit to Teesport, the Pacific Orca sailed down the east coast skills and to the English Channel, to help install wind turbine piles for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm project 13 kilometres south facilities are of Brighton. The Pacific Orca returned for demobilisation later in the year. The 550-metre Number One Quay, with increasingly 14.5 metres depth alongside, can take loads of up to 10 tonnes per square metre, in demand making it ideal for the mobilisation of wind farm installation vessels. Another caller during 2016 was the Jumbo Javelin. This heavy lift vessel, equipped with two 900-tonne cranes, berthed at the port to move wind turbine transfer pieces by overside transfer.

40 RENEWABLES/OFFSHORE TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK RENEWABLES/OFFSHORE 41 MGT Teesside customers with up to 80 acres of land on a intervention, inspection, maintenance and MGT Teesside’s renewable energy plant short to long term basis. repair (IMR), and decommissioning. will cost about £650 million to build. At “We have been engaging with most DeepOcean’s large-scale UK marine SHIP REPAIR, least 600 jobs will be created during the of the offshore wind farm developers with base, provides integrated services for construction phase; once the plant is up a view to offering Hartlepool, with its heavy lifting, mobilisation, storage and and running, there will be about 100 significant land available, for the build-up logistics. CONVERSION full-time jobs onsite, as well as many and installation phases and mobilisation of The base has a heavy lift quay with hundred more in the supply chain. vessels,” says Frans Calje. “Our deep-water depth alongside of at least 8 metres, The biomass product used in the process facilities at Teesport complement that crane capacity of up to 250 tonnes with ....connecting AND FABRICATION will be imported through Teesport, and offering perfectly.” associated ground loading capability, discharged by PD Ports. 8,825 square metres of covered storage, “This development positions the region Offshore support and more than 16,000 square metres of markets SERVICES as a major energy hub, creating hundreds Among a large number of companies secure outside storage. of jobs and giving substantial impetus serving the offshore industries are JDR In January 2017, it was announced that MPI Offshore’s fleet of to the long-term economic activity of the Cables at Hartlepool, MPI Offshore and Nexans had awarded DeepOcean the area,” says Frans Calje. “Attracting such a DeepOcean at Teesport Commerce Park, cable installation and trenching work for purpose-built offshore significant UK energy infrastructure project MPI Offshore, part of the international ScottishPower Renewable’s East Anglia foundation and wind to Teesport further complements recent shipping operation Vroon Group, is active ONE offshore wind farm in the North Sea. investments made by PD Ports, including our in the offshore wind turbine installation Offshore work will be undertaken by turbine installation decision to redevelop Number One Quay.” and maintenance markets, with a range of 2019 with the Maersk Connector and vessels plus an vessels, equipment and service offerings. purpose built power cable plough, ACP2, Hartlepool It has been a pioneer in the offshore supported by DeepOcean’s in-house fleet experienced Space is a real USP at Hartlepool and wind industry since 2003, when it took of dedicated construction support vessels. team make us a nowhere is that more important than when delivery of the MPI Resolution, the first-ever DeepOcean’s scope is the transport, serving the offshore renewables sector. dedicated wind turbine installation vessel. installation and trenching of two 85 km world leader in The huge land bank at Hartlepool has Today, MPI Offshore has four purpose-built export cables. offshore wind enabled the port to take on a number of vessels in operation for installing wind big projects, with the flexibility to provide turbines, foundation and transition pieces – installation. the MPI Resolution, MPI Adventure, MPI Discovery and MPI Enterprise. DeepOcean offers a breadth of subsea services including survey and seabed- mapping, subsea installation, seabed

Exactly where you need us MPI Workboats operate a fleet of high speed crew Dock 5 L: 175.3 m B: 22.2 m transfer and offshore Dock 6 L: 120.0 m B: 17.3 m workboats - designed to Quay L: 240.0 m operate in the demanding Fixed craneage Up to 40 te environment for the Workshop area 3000 m2 Offshore Wind Industry. • Drydocking • Repair & conversion Tel: +44(0)1642 464024 • Mobilisation & demobilisation Fax: +44(0)1642 460075 • Afloat services www.ap-group.co.uk +44 (0) 1642 742200 [email protected] www.mpi-offshore.com

TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK RENEWABLES/OFFSHORE 43 High Tide brings together It’s all about the next generation. PD Ports highly experienced people now AV Dawson, Bond Dickinson, CAM Air industry and education is leading the way when it comes to approaching retirement age, and to plug Freight Solutions, Emirates, Esh Group, attracting, training and retaining new the skills gap that is so evident. Nifco, Sabic, Better, MPI Offshore, Lotte to provide an insight into recruits to the industry – and its efforts have Five years ago, the High Tide Foundation Chemical and Ithica Films. how businesses operate been recognised at local and national was founded by Casper Shipping and To date, High Tide has worked with more level. PD Ports to inspire and empower the than 5,000 young people, introducing The average age of the workforce at Teesside of tomorrow. A charitable them to 100 local private sector Teesport and Hartlepool is 44 – it’s a organisation, High Tide brings together companies. This work is done through a challenge being faced across the ports and industry and education to provide an number of different approaches: Tackling the shipping world, as it seeks to replace the insight into how businesses operate, while Cadetship Programmes: High Tide run developing skills and showcasing employ- two cadetship programmes focusing on ment opportunities. shipping and logistics and the automotive Chaired by PD Ports’ Chairman David skills gap Robinson, High Tide’s members include

44 PEOPLE TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PEOPLE 45 Why choose Redcar &

MARINE CONSULTANTS Cleveland? As a place to invest, Redcar & Cleveland is a compelling proposition. A skilled and productive workforce, modern flexible Surveying sites and accommodation, excellent transport links and a team of SERvICES specialists in place offering professional advice on all aspects of Damage Surveys & business growth and inward investment. INvESTIgATION What’s the appeal? • A port of global significance Projects & • Excellent road and rail links MANAgEMENT • Established and thriving industrial estates Technical • Existing units with immediate availability • Land for development INvESTIgATION • Home to some of the world’s leading petrochemical, steel and Docking mining companies MANAgEMENT • A strong record of support for new investment • A great place to work and live with urban centres, rural villages and coastal towns Vessel AudITS What we offer in Marine, Renewables • A dedicated person to help you set up and grow your business & Offshore • Help to find the right staff • An Enterprise Zone with financial and planning incentives A business friendly planning environment GLOBAL SERVICES • INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS What are you waiting for? Get in touch today. Tel 01642 444366 fortemaritime.com E-mail [email protected] +44 (0) 1642 200076 Visit www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/business industry. Each are six-week, after-school High Tide has successfully increased the programmes designed to introduce visibility of life ‘inside’ Teesport. The result youngsters between 12 and 14 to the has been a fresh intake of youngsters, with career opportunities available in these PD Ports providing a number of sectors. apprenticeships and trainee positions. Sea & learn voyages – OYT & Tall Ships: PD Ports also worked with Stockton Working with a number of maritime Riverside College to establish a Logistics organisations, High Tide provides young Academy, which delivers industry-focused people with once in a lifetime opportunities masterclasses, mentoring, and placement to experience life at sea and support their and internship opportunities running along- personal growth. High Tide provides a side its full-time courses – all designed to unique three-day Ocean Youth Trust May get candidates into the workplace. Sail programme and the life enriching The academy was launched in six-day Tall Ships Voyage programme. conjunction with NETA Training Trust, Think Port to Port Visit: A chance for students to Logistics and the Career Ready charity, to visit companies in Teesport and then join a help tackle the region’s logistics skills gap. trip to a European port. However, PD Ports’ efforts start earlier than Experience Works: Two-week work that. PD Ports has run a series of roadshows placements with employers in and around introducing primary school pupils to the Teesside for 16 and 17-year-olds. career opportunities on their doorstep. Educating the Educators: Teachers from All those behind the Logistics Academy different schools on Teesside are agree that it’s vital to engage and inspire invited to join a river trip, to gain a better local schoolchildren; in essence, the understanding of how products are younger they get to know about the industry imported and distributed, and of career and its opportunities, the more chance there opportunities and skills requirements. is of attracting them into the logistics sector. “Through High Tide’s unique work Nationally, the industry is said to be experience and industry-led skills worth £96 billion per year; but it needs programme, which has been praised by 1.2 million additional workers by 2022 HRH The Prince of Wales, PD Ports aims to and the Logistics Academy is also aiming enlighten its potential future workforce about to encourage more women into this thriving the varied careers in the maritime industry sector. For the economic growth of the Tees that are right on their doorstep – from Valley and the wider area, the port is vitally engineering and crane operations to important. logistics and riverbed surveying,” says Frans Calje. For sensible reasons of safety and svitzer.com security, port operations today are all too often ‘out of sight, out of mind’. However,

TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PEOPLE 47 private operators play a key role in the success of Teesside’s maritime service sectoR

the KEYS TO SUCCESS ABLE UK...offshore strength of large-scale fabrication businesses. ABLE UK, a port operator and market Developed in the 1970s, the site was leader in demolition and marine acquired by ABLE in 2000. decommissioning, has four sites on the This site has large fabrication halls with Tees. The largest two facilities are ABLE numerous gantry cranes and floor rails Seaton Port, where the focus is on oil & already installed. It has six strong quays, gas activity, and ABLE Middlesbrough including a 220-metre quay, which have Port, which is well located for supporting been used for a variety of heavy-lift projects offshore wind activity. in the past. ABLE also has sites at Billingham Reach AMP is suitable for manufacturing, Industrial Estate and Clarence Port. storage and deployment of components, The 51-hectare ABLE Seaton Port (ASP), products and services to the marine near Hartlepool, is just 1.8 nautical miles renewables sector. Strong quays and deep from the open sea. It has some of the water drafts provide a solution for clients strongest quays in Europe, constructed to who require terrestrial facilities with strong suit the requirements of the oil & gas sector. marine load-out capabilities. The site also ABLE UK has invested about £70 million provides layby, berthing and project cargo at Seaton in the past seven years. The handling. site has the capacity to handle virtually all offshore vessels and offers a wide range A&P Group... of facilities, including fabrication halls, dry docks and afloat repairs covered and outside storage, significant Global ship repair, conversion and marine crane capacity and SPMTs. As well as specialist A&P Group operates three providing the full range of offshore facilities in the UK, with its strongest fabrication, refurbishment and repair, presence in the North East. maintenance, modification, warm and cold A&P’s five-acre Tees yard consists of two stacking, asbestos removal and dismantling dry docks and 240 metres of jetty frontage. services, the site handles general cargo With extensive workshop facilities, cranes imports and exports, and is licensed to up to 40 tonnes and a secure tank washing receive, store, process and dispose of drill facility, the Tees yard is considered a centre cuttings. of excellence for offshore vessels, dredgers The company’s offshore dismantling and tankers. expertise goes back to 1985, when it The yard is also home to Afloat, a 24/7 worked on a topside module for Phillips repair service for shipping agents, ship Petroleum. Since then, ABLE UK has managers and ship owners that is taking received more than 80 offshore structures skills developed locally to marine customers for decommissioning, with most these being up and down the British coastline. Now handled at Seaton. The dismantling and servicing up to 20 vessels per month, disposal of offshore structures from Shell’s Afloat’s engineers can be called out to Brent field in the North Sea will be the vessels when they are berthed or on the largest so far. move, thanks to dedicated ‘riding squads’. Upriver from ASP, ABLE Middlesbrough During the past year, projects have Port (AMP) is the former base of a number included work on tankers, offshore supply vessels and wind farm installation vessels. The Tees yard saw a particularly strong performance in 2016, with a significant Looking north with AV Dawson’s riverside plant in the foreground. increase in utilised capacity across its two

48 PRIVATE OPERATORS TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PRIVATE OPERATORS 49 dry docks and two berths. The yard also AV Dawson...multimodal hub RDF (refuse derived fuel), which is delivered a very large number of offsite or AV Dawson’s multimodal hub in exported to Scandinavia for use in power ‘afloat’ projects, ranging from large-scale Middlesbrough brings together port generation. mobilisations and demobilisations to minor operations, road transport, rail freight, A range of quayside warehouses and repairs and fabrications. warehousing, storage and value-added business units are available, for storage of One of its most significant recent projects activities, all on one site. bulks, bags and pallets, specialist subsea was with Prysmian Group, the worldwide The Teesside freight handling facility, equipment and containers, and the leader in energy and telecom cable owned and operated by AV Dawson, has company regularly handles project and systems industry, for the mobilisation of its 850 metres of lock-free quayside with heavy cargoes. The fabrication halls have owned and charted vessels. A&P Group’s load-out and heavy lift quays and lifting the benefit of internal crane capacity up to Tees team operated 24 hours, seven days capacity up to 215 tonnes. In all, there are 20 tonnes and are much in demand for the a week with a large team of steel fitters four rail-linked berths; there is capacity for construction, assembly and direct load-out and subcontractors to deliver the complex vessels of up to 220 metres in length and, of large structures, such as offshore mobilisation work required for the Cable following a major dredging programme, accommodation modules for the offshore Enterprise, owned by Prysmian, and three 8.5 metres draft. Vessels of up to 21,000 sector. other charter vessels. tons are handled regularly. Rail freight: The AV Dawson site is one of Darren Brown, Managing Director of The entire AV Dawson operation covers the largest independent rail terminals in the A&P Group’s Tees yard, says: “The 100 acres, including the North Sea Supply North of England. With its own railheads Prysmian contract really showed off A&P Base with its three 42-metre-high fabrica- and shunting locomotives, AV Dawson Group’s strengths as it required precision tion halls, Ayrton Rail Freight Terminal which offers experience, capacity and flexibility engineering with incredibly tight tolerances. specialises in bulk cargo, a climate- when handling freight by rail. More than We are one of only a handful of UK controlled automotive steel distribution 10 kms of working sidings transport goods operators able to offer this capability and centre, Tees Riverside Intermodal Park (TRIP) to and from its warehouses and quaysides, prefabrication within such a short lead and Bowes Road Business Park. including the neighbouring goods yards in time. Our longstanding relationship with A family-owned company, AV Dawson Middlesbrough and Thornaby. AV Dawson Prysmian, as with many other A&P Group has run operations on the Tees for nearly owns the Ayrton Rail Freight Terminal, clients, is very much testament to our speed eight decades. Recent years have seen which covers six hectares. The Tees of response, attention to detail and under- continued and significant investment and Riverside Intermodal Park is also rail linked. standing of the complex needs of expansion, enabling even larger-scale Automotive steel: AV Dawson invested ship operators and owners.” activities and services. The focus is on £6.5 million in the construction of its new Among its customer base, the A&P Group providing integrated, cost-effective logistics state-of-the-art automotive steel distribution boasts a number of oil majors and their key solutions across a wide range of cargoes centre. This 102,000 square foot facility contractors, as well as the UK Ministry of and customer requirements. has been designed and built to minimise Defence and some well-known national Port services: Cargoes handled by AV environmental impact, with 1,000 solar and global shipping groups. In addition Dawson include steel for the automotive panels on the roof, ground source heat to major marine projects, A&P Group’s and construction sector, and bulk aggre- pumps, intelligent lighting, and intelligent fabrication facilities are ideal for building gates and minerals for the construction heat and humidity systems to ensure the offshore modules, subsea structures and and agriculture sectors such as fertilisers, quality of the steel. Trains from Port Talbot new ship sections. bentonite, cement, gypsum and slag. come straight into the store to unload steel A&P Group prides itself on the quality Trade in tanks and containers is increasing coil and are also backloaded with steel and expertise of its personnel, both in terms and while the movement of heavy project for the Midlands. The building is equipped of its own workforce and the subcontractors cargoes for the oil and gas sector has with four overhead cranes with 30 tonnes it uses. reduced in line with the market changes, lift capacity. AV Dawson has seen an increase in project From here, loads are called off by cargo activity for the offshore wind sector. Nissan, and AV Dawson provides a In recent years, the flow of ‘waste to constant two-hour just-in-time delivery energy’ cargoes has increased, including system by truck. About one-third of the coils go direct to Nissan’s plant at Sunderland, with the remainder delivered to various companies in the automotive supply chain. Road haulage: AV Dawson has a fleet of articulated trucks and more than 200 trailers for moving a wide range of AV DAWSON HAS cargoes. The majority of these are used for local hub distribution to support the other parts of the operation. RUN OPERATIONS Adding value: Flexibility is a given at AV Dawson. Among services provided, the company does shot-blasting, painting, steel ON THE TEES FOR processing, trailer hire and also has its own ships agency in the AV Dawson family of NEARLY EIGHT businesses. DECADES

Rail loading at AV Dawson’s Rail Freight terminal.

50 PRIVATE OPERATORS TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PRIVATE OPERATORS 51 InterTerminals... handling and the Seal Sands Terminal can JDR Cable Systems... strategic storage at Seals Sands provide bespoke solutions for each designing, delivering, connecting The Seal Sands Terminal owned and customer and application. This might JDR Cable Systems has expanded its operated by InterTerminals is part of one of involve, for example, replacing mild steel output, technology, geographical spread the most comprehensive storage terminal pipelines with stainless steel, lining tanks and reputation for excellence since setting networks available in Europe. Situated with rubber, glass or special coatings, up operations at the Port of Hartlepool in at the mouth of the River Tees, the facility heating tanks and pipelines and providing 2009. provides easy access to the major petro- nitrogen blankets to protect the product from Founded two decades ago, JDR designs, chemical and industrial complexes in the the environment and vice versa. manufactures, delivers and supports subsea North of England. Other technical solutions include bespoke production umbilicals, subsea power The terminal has two jetties with draft of blending services, automatic road loading cables and Intervention Work Over Control up to 10.4 metres and capacity for vessels for road fuels, load consolidation and Systems (IWOCS), as well as terminations of up to 40,000 DWT. As well as its good breaking bulk. and accessories, for the offshore energy road connections, the terminal has direct Specialist expertise: Seal Sands also industry. pipeline links to the Wilton and North Tees holds environmental permits to handle a The company started out producing plants. range of non-hazardous wastes, together divers’ and ROV umbilicals at its factory in With a total storage capacity of with an RSR permit to receive, store and Littleport, Cambridgeshire, quickly 246,000 cubic metres in 216 tanks, redeliver NORM (Naturally Occurring expanding into larger cables for the oil and Seal Sands offers specialised facilities Radioactive Material) products, typically gas sector. As its products became larger, that include stainless steel tanks, pressure arising from North Sea offshore oil and gas heavier and more complex, the ability to storage for gases and a vapour recovery production. load out directly to vessels became clear. unit for gasolines. The terminal is a Seal Sands also has a sophisticated The Port of Hartlepool, with its deep water COMAH (Control of Major Accident capability for blending ethanol with and ample space close to the quayside, Hazards) Upper Tier site and participates in denaturant for applications including provided the solution. the CDI-T (Chemicals Distribution Institute – perfumes, mouthwash and detergents. As “We started our factory at Hartlepool Terminals) inspection programme. each customer and application is different, in 2009 in order to deliver cables to the Bespoke solutions: As well as petro- the system automatically blends in the right Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm, chemicals, the products handled by Seal denaturant in the right proportions while the followed by London Array,” says COO Sands include demanding materials such as tanker is filled. Richard Turner. “We delivered about 200 pharmaceutical grade chemicals, petroleum kms of cable for each of these, over a and biofuels, and high-pressure liquid three-year period. We were already petroleum gases. serving the oil and gas sector but our Many of these products have very involvement in renewables really started special requirements for storage and with these two big projects – and we have never looked back.” Since 2010, JDR has been recognised as the market leader for inter-array cables. With substantial orders from customers in InterTerminals at Seal Sands.

the UK and overseas, volumes are set to JDR Cable systems. increase. JDR has delivered its products to oil and gas and renewables projects as far as afield as Australia, China and Mexico, as well as into Europe and the Middle East. The company has recently invested more than £10 million in its facilities at Hartlepool, with the lead project being expansion into the adjacent G Building; opened in 2016 to build the largest umbilicals for the oil and gas industry, it is equipped with a horizontal Helix assembly machine. “This gives us great capability for producing steel tube umbilicals, putting “WE HAVE DIRECT us in a stronger position for deepwater projects involving longer lengths and harsher environments,” says Richard Turner. ACCESS TO THE “There are not many companies in our sector investing at the moment and we are QUAY, YET really proud to be in a position where we are able to invest. This is an exciting time for us.” HARTLEPOOL TOWN Hartlepool has proved to be an excellent location for JDR. “We are really well positioned for the North Sea, for the oil CENTRE IS WITHIN and gas market and for the growing renewables industry,” he says. “We have WALKING DISTANCE” direct access to the quay for product loadout, yet Hartlepool town centre is within walking distance.

52 PRIVATE OPERATORS TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PRIVATE OPERATORS 53 “We have five service centres around offshore wind farm. Over 240 km of cables essential links between the turbine Navigator... and Billingham offering continuous delivery, the world; we can deliver the product from will be delivered from Hartlepool, providing generators and the Gabbard and Galloper easy and efficient access in some cases feeding directly into the Hartlepool and do the testing, termination, valuable UK content to the project. JDR is offshore substations. Navigator Terminals is the UK’s largest production process. local engineering and project management the only supplier of submarine cables for Skills for the future: JDR has independent bulk liquid storage provider, The operations also feature five fully support, mobilising offshore from these offshore wind farms with a manufacturing already developed a strong relationship with more than 1.5 million cubic metres automated, safe and fast road loading centres, depending on our customers’ facility in the UK. with Hartlepool College, and ambitious of storage capacity. The locations of all its bays, including gasoline and diesel specific requirements. London Array Offshore Wind Farm: plans for a new joint venture engineering terminals provide safe, easy and efficient additive injection systems. “But it is also about local supply and London Array, installed in water depths of academy are being progressed. access to the markets for both importers In addition to storage, Navigator content. The North East is a real hub for the up to 23 metres, is connected by subsea The partners envisage a whole new and exporters. offers specialised added-value services, offshore industry. We have a huge supply export cables to an onshore substation building and training facilities on JDR’s site, Navigator Terminals Seal Sands is served including blending, VRU, heating and chain within the UK and in particular in the on the North Kent coast. JDR engineered, for apprentices and others already working by three deepwater jetties, which handle nitrogen. The terminal handles petroleum North East. There is good collaboration in designed and manufactured more than in the sector. “We will work together to more than 500 vessels a year of up to products, chemicals, liquefied gas, the supply chain to reduce costs within the 200 km of 33kV subsea array cables, with create a facility that will set the training 45,000 DWT. Total storage capacity is vegetable oils and bitumen. industry and we contribute to do this.” proprietary hang-off and terminal systems, standards for the industry; we envisage a 287,000 cubic metres; there are 168 The facility is a Top Tier COMAH Often JDR’s customers also own the providing the essential links between state-of-the-art training centre which will tanks ranging from 65 to 8,500 cubic (Control of Major Accident Hazards) site vessels which pick up the cables – there is individual turbine generators and the attract our customers and partners, even our metres capacity, with specifications and complies fully with detailed regulations close liaison between JDR, the vessel offshore substations. The cables were competitors, to come to Hartlepool for the including mild steel and stainless steel, governing storing toxic, flammable and operators and the port. “We all work delivered from Hartlepool. best in offshore training, as well as linking including coatings, and a pressurised gas hazardous products. together – and it works,” says Richard Greater Gabbard Wind Farm: with the college to train apprentices,” says sphere is also available. North Tees: Navigator Terminal North Turner. More than 22 miles off the Suffolk coast, Richard Turner. Seal Sands plays a key role in the supply Tees is a road fuel and crude oil storage In 2016, JDR was awarded its largest Greater Gabbard was the first UK offshore chain of its various customers. The terminal ever cable contract, for the Hornsea 1 wind farm to be built outside territorial is fully integrated into the pipeline system waters. JDR supplied more than 200 km of the UK’s largest chemical cluster; it has of inter-array subsea power cables with 12 pipeline connections to plants in Wilton associated terminations, providing the AV Dawson.

54 PRIVATE OPERATORS TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PRIVATE OPERATORS 55 hub for the North East of the UK, with Redcar Bulk Terminal... wagons are loaded by overhead hoppers SABIC...the beating heart of features a low-density polyethylene plant, Chemical Industries Association, in deepwater jetty and modern rail distribution deep water, smooth handling directly fed by conveyors, while offloading Teesside’s chemicals industry the largest in the world, which produces recognition of the Teesside operation’s facilities. Redcar Bulk Terminal is one of the deepest is by bottom discharge into an underground SABIC UK Petrochemicals, based on polymer products. demonstrated business growth and The terminal has pipeline connections to and best located bulk terminals in the UK. hopper and conveyor system directly linked Teesside, operates significant manufacturing SABIC has recently made a significant sustained contribution to the national Navigator Terminals Seal Sands, so that Situated on the south bank of the Tees, the to the stockyards. assets at Wilton International as well as investment in the Teesside site to achieve a economy. This was the second time in five petroleum products to be interchanged terminal has a 320-metre-long quay which The large terminal area immediately next extensive storage, distribution and logistics lower cost per tonne chemical production. years that SABIC was honoured with the between the facilities. It also has significant can accommodate vessels of up to 17 to the quay can also provide short or long- facilities at North Tees. The Teesside Gas Cracking Project is the award. underground cavern storage and is metres draft. term storage for a variety of bulk cargoes, The Olefins Cracker operated by SABIC largest single investment in the chemical The judges praised the company’s connected by pipeline to the Ekofisk The terminal is equipped with two ship as well as space for the assembly or at Wilton is the third largest in Europe industry on Teesside for a generation. The management team for demonstrating crude system. unloaders, which can operate on grab or dismantling of large conventional or project and is at the heart of the petrochemical Wilton cracker has been converted to take excellent process safety leadership and a With total capacity of 761,000 cubic hook, for bulk or conventional cargoes. cargoes. complex. It is the most flexible cracker in ethane gas, as an alternative cheaper raw commitment to engaging the whole work- metres and three underground caverns, These have a travelling length of 300 The terminal is ISO 9001 and ISO Europe, producing ethylene, propylene, material. This upgrade and construction force; they also highlighted the variety of the North Tees terminal handles petroleum metres and in grab mode, working 14001 accredited. butadiene and other gasoline by-products. work created hundreds of construction jobs techniques used to ensure a good process products, crude oil and vegetable oils. together, they can achieve offloading rates These chemical ‘building blocks’ are used – and has safeguarded thousands more safety culture remains at the top of the Navigator is clear on the reasons in excess of 40,000 tonnes per day. across the chemicals and plastics sectors process industry jobs for the years ahead. agenda, including training based around why the Tees is the right place to be: Bulk materials discharged are trans- to produce a massive range of products An extensive ethane terminal had to be layers of protection, hazard tables and a “Strategically located, access to markets ferred by conveyors into a large open bulk such as cups, packaging, car components, built at SABIC’s North Tees site, including visible process safety dashboard. – import and export, extensive knowledge storage area, before being stockpiled by household goods, furnishings, shampoo, the building of Europe’s largest cryogenic SABIC is a global leader in diversified and expertise within the workforce, stacker reclaimers. detergents, clothing, pharmaceuticals, and ethane tank. This supports the logistical chemicals headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi and integration into local chemical Redcar Bulk terminal is HMRC approved PVC and plastic construction materials. capacity needed to support the integral Arabia. It manufactures on a global scale manufacturing production sites.” for the storage of uncleared goods and Products and feedstocks are stored at the cracker conversion. in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East has direct rail access to the national rail site and distributed via ship and cross- SABIC also operates brine wells and and Asia Pacific. network, as well as excellent road links to country pipelines. The Wilton site also ethylene liquefaction facilities at North the A19 and A1(M). Tees, and stores feedstock and products for Rail wagons are served with separate distribution by road and ship.

load and offload bulk handling facilities – In 2016, SABIC UK Petrochemicals was SABIC UK Petrochemicals, named Company of the Year by the based in Teesside.

56 PRIVATE OPERATORS TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PRIVATE OPERATORS 57 Ready for wind... the burgeoning offshore wind industry. Wilton Engineering, “The company’s core skills are completely Universal Coatings and transferable to this new industry, and we Port Clarence Logistics have had significant success with the Wilton Engineering was set up in 1994, announcement of a number of project quickly establishing itself as a leading wins,” he says. manufacturer of large and complex The company won contracts to shot blast structures for the subsea market. Universal and paint transition pieces for the Walney Coatings was later set up to provide and Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind specialist coating applications to the farms, with a further project to supply, engineering company as well as to other manufacture and paint 26 steel platform operators in Teesside and the wider North structures for the Beatrice project, for East region. installation in the outer Moray Firth. The A significant step change came in latest project award is to take receipt 2006 with the purchase of the Port of 20 transition piece rolled shells, Clarence Offshore Base. This 54-acre site manufacture and fit all ancillary steelwork, has loadout quays serving the full river shot blast, uplift into the vertical position frontage of the four assembly halls, and the and fit out to specification before delivery mooring facility extends to the downstream to the Hornsea One offshore wind site. boundary of the site, giving total berthing “Looking ahead, there are lots of of some 300 metres. Heavy lift and roll-on/ opportunities to build upon our initial roll-off capability is provided at the Angle successes, with a number of new projects Quay and at the two loadout aprons on emerging,” says Kevin Ness. “The largest the Main Quay, providing ideal facilities of these is Dogger Bank, located east of for loading superstructures on to the largest Teesside – we are perfectly positioned to seagoing barges and vessels with only a serve that development.” short transit journey to the North Sea. This With these developments on the horizon, set the scene for what was to become one the company has embarked on a significant of the largest successful companies on investment programme; construction of a Teesside, building and coating many huge new, state-of-the-art full turnkey transition structures for the oil and gas industry. piece coatings facility is now under way, At their peak, Wilton and Universal with completion due in the last quarter of have employed more than 500 people, 2017. as well as having a significant number of The Port Clarence Offshore Base is subcontractors onsite during the construction operated by Port Clarence Logistics (PCL), of major projects. an onsite shipping and logistics team. “Teesside is a hub for quality people Support services include vessel chartering, covering the full spectrum of construction, cargo handling, equipment sale and from engineers to planners, platers and purchase, vessel mobilisation and demo- welders – and everything in between,” says bilisation, installation and commissioning, Kevin Ness, Wilton Engineering’s business engineering solutions, project management, streams manager. “The supply chain is also fabrication and welding, and shot blasting a very important part of the jigsaw in our and painting. drive to consistently deliver on time, every time, whilst meeting stringent health, safety and quality requirements.” In response to the downturn in the oil and gas sector, Wilton is focusing on supporting

“TeesSide is a hub for quality people covering the full spectrum of construction...”

Wilton Engineering’s subsea structures for a project at Thanet.

58 PRIVATE OPERATORS TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PRIVATE OPERATORS 59 TeesPORT AND HARTLEPOOL TeesPORT AND HARTLEPOOL PORT DETAILS PORT Users Location Container services Airport Stevedoring Tees & Hartlepool Cory Brothers Shipping International Marine CSG Recyc-Oil Limited The ports of Tees and at Teesport Durham Tees Valley Airport, All cargo handling operations Port Users Association Agency Limited Survey Limited Murdock Road Hartlepool are located on the 18 miles from Teesport and are carried out by PD Ports. members Cargo Fleet Office 17 Newby Stables East Middlesbrough Industrial north-east coast of England. Company Containerships 22 miles from Hartlepool, of- Middlesbrough Road Newby Hall Estate Teesport: Frequency 5 calls per week fers daily flights to Aberdeen Storage Able UK Limited Middlesbrough TS6 6XJ Ripon Middlesbrough TS3 8TB 54°36’N, 1°13’W Other ports on rotation and Amsterdam, connecting Teesport: Three quayside Billingham Reach Industrial Tel: 01642 264632 North Yorkshire HG4 5AE Tel: 01642 242792 Hartlepool: Baltic services to many other destinations. transit sheds totalling nearly Estate Contact: Mike Crager Tel: 07967 428055 Contact: Craig Dufferwiel 54°42’N, 1°12’W. Newcastle Airport is 40 miles 30,000 square metres plus Haverton Hill Road michael.crager@ Contact: Kristian Farthing [email protected] Tees Dock is on the south Company MSC away from Hartlepool and large areas of open storage. Billingham TS23 1PX corybrothers.com info@internationalmarine bank of the River Tees, 5 km Frequency 1 call per week 55 miles from Teesport away. Plug-in points available for Tel: 01642 806080 survey.com Redcar Bulk Terminal from the sea. Hartlepool Other ports on rotation reefer containers. Contact: Colin Harrison DeepOcean UK Limited Dock is 6 km north of the None Anchorage Hartlepool: Over 86,000 [email protected] Tees Commerce Park Intertek Testing Services Steel House River Tees and faces south Vessels are not to anchor square metres of quayside Dockside Road Limited Trunk Road into Hartlepool Bay. Company Unifeeder within Tees and Hartlepool shed space including Agility Logistics Limited Middlesbrough TS6 6UZ Western Jetty Redcar TS10 5QW Frequency 3 calls per week Authority Limit, except with dedicated warehousing for Room B210 Tel: 01642 451867 Seal Sands Tel: 01642 404040 PD Ports’ Berths Other ports on rotation prior approval of Tees VTS, forest products. The Wilton Centre Contact: Martin Teague Middlesbrough TS2 1UB Contact: Garry O’Malley Tees Dock Felixstowe and Rotterdam or within 2.5 cables of the Redcar TS10 4RF mteague@ Tel: 01642 540035 [email protected] Ekofisk Oil, the CATS and Tides Tel: 01642 438336 deepoceangroup.com Contact: Steve Johnson Steel and General cargo Company BG Freight Breagh Gas pipelines. Teesport: MHWS 5.55 Contact: Gill Watson [email protected] SABIC Europe Berths 4 Frequency 2 calls per week Vessels intending to anchor metres, MHWN 4.30 metres, [email protected] Denholm Wilhelmsen North Tees Site Length 780 metres Other ports on rotation should seek advice on anchor MLWS 0.90 metres, MLWN Limited Inter Terminals Seal Seaton Road Depth 14.5 metres Felixstowe and Rotterdam berths from Tees VTS before 2.00 metres. A&P Group Limited North Sea Supply Base Sands Limited Port Clarence Additional information arrival. Spring range is 4.65 metres. Tees Commerce Park Dinsdale House Seal Sands Middlesbrough TS2 1TT Vessels up to 115,000 dwt Company MacAndrews Three anchorages have Neap range 2.30 metres South Bank Riverside Park Middlesbrough TS2 1UB Tel: 01642 731517 Hartlepool: Frequency 2 calls per week been designated in Tees Bay MHWS 5.35 Middlesbrough TS6 6UZ Middlesbrough TS2 1UT Tel: 01642 543245 Contact: Graeme Crossman to avoid the pipelines and metres, MHWN 4.29 metres, Ro-Ro Other ports on rotation Tel: 01642 464024 Tel: 01642 733590 Contact: Ian O’Donnell [email protected] sensitive fishing grounds: MLWS 0.68 metres, MLWN Berths 2 in Tees Dock Scadinavian, Blatic plus Contact: Aaron Burbridge Contact: Peter Knight ian.odonnell@ Echo Anchorage: 1.72 metres. 1 on River Tees Gdynia aaron.burbridge@ agency.tees@ interterminals.com SGS UK Limited has depths ranging from Spring range is 4.67 metres. Length 180-200 metres ap-group.co.uk denholm-wilhelmsen.com K6 Workshop 44 metres to 55 metres Neap Range 2.57 metres. Depth 8.8-10.9 metres Company P&O KRS Marine Limited Wilton Site Whiskey Anchorage: Additional information Frequency 9 calls per week AV Dawson Limited GAC Shipping UK Dinsdale House Redcar TS10 4RG has depths ranging from Towage Freight only Other ports on rotation Riverside Park Road Limited Unit 4 Tel: 01642 459111 22 metres to 35 metres Svitzer Marine Ltd provides Zeebrugge and Rotterdam Middlesbrough TS2 1UT 1st Floor, Christine House North Sea Supply Base Contact: Andrew Smith Charlie Anchorage: a 24/7 towage service in Teesport Container Tel: 01642 219271 Sorbonne Close Riverside Park Road [email protected] is for vessels under 100 metre Tees and Hartlepool. From its Terminal 1 Company A2B Contact: Rob Turnbull Teasdale Business Park Middlesbrough TS2 1UT OAL. It has depths ranging base in Middlesbrough the Berths Frequency Svitzer Marine Limited 2 3 calls per week from 34 metres to 45 metres. company operates a fleet of [email protected] Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6DA Tel: 07515 428209 Length Other ports on rotation 294 metres four tugs comprising two Tel: 01642 637500 Contact: Rizwan Siddiqui Tees Wharf Depth 7.5 and 8.5 metres Moerdijk Approach ASD 70 and 65 tonne BHP, BG Freight Line BV Contact: Phil Thomas [email protected] Dockside Road Additional information Teesport: Tees Bay is two 40 tonne BHP Voith Evans Business Centre [email protected] Middlesbrough TS3 6AB Ship-to-shore gantry cranes approached from the East tugs. Two of these tugs are 31 Stephenson Court LG Maritime Limited Tel: 01642 258300 and the River is entered from equipped with FiFi 1 standard Skippers Lane Industrial Graypen Limited Suite 212 Contact: Stephen Browell Teesport Container the vicinity of 54o41’.40N fire-fighting capability. Estate 4 Able House Broadcasting House [email protected] Terminal 2 001o06’.00W via Tees Middlesbrough TS6 6UT Billingham Reach Industrial Newport Road Berths 2 Approach channel which is Waste Tel: 01642 838383 Estate Middlesbrough TS1 5JA Tees Bay Pilots Length 360 metres marked by a pair of leading Teesport: Svitzer Marine Contact: Neil Johnson Haverton Hill Road Tel: 01642 200787 The Pilot House Depth 10.9 metres lights and light buoys Ltd operates a daily garbage [email protected] Billingham TS23 1PX Contact: Capt. Leo Gorbenko Breakwater South Gare Additional information (Lateral). Tees Approach collection service for shipping Tel: 01642 560057 [email protected] Redcar TS10 5NX 45 tonne ship-to-shore channel has a dredged depth on the River Tees using a British Steel UK Limited Contact: Christian Melvin Tel: 01642 485648 gantry crane of 15.4 metres reducing motorised barge. This service Main Offices [email protected] LV Shipping UK Limited Contacts: Colin Pratt Vessels up to 2,500 teu to 14.1 metres within the is provided on behalf of PD Lackenby TS6 7RP Tees Commerce Park [email protected] breakwater entrance. Upriver Ports and is covered by a Tel: 01724 404008 Harbour Management Dockside Road Peter Bolton Teesport Oil Jetties of the major terminals at Harbour Office levy on waste Contact: Graham Palmer Solutions Limited Middlesbrough TS6 6UZ [email protected] Berths 2 operated by SABIC the river mouth the dredged disposal. graham.palmer@ 12 Yarm Road Tel: 01642 440744 Length 550 metres depth reduces progressively Hartlepool: disposal longssteel.com Stockton-on-Tees TS18 3NA Contact: Richard Willis Tees Licensed Depth 9.5 and 6.5 metres until Billingham, 7 miles from available on request. Tel: 01642611514 [email protected] Foyboatmen’s Additional information the entrance, where it is British Steel UK Limited Contact: Alexe Finlay Association SABIC bethers can handle 4.5 metres. Above Billingham Water Brigg Road alexe@harbourmanagement MPI Offshore Limited Graving Dock vessels up to 198 metres and the Channel is not dredged. Fresh water is available Scunthorpe solutions.co.uk Resolution House Dockside Road 100 metres All areas are subject to at most berths in Tees and North Lincolnshire DN16 1BP 1st Floor Middlesbrough TS3 8AT silting and depths less than Hartlepool. Tel: 01724 402447 Huntsman Polyurethanes 18 Ellerbeck Court Tel: 01642 454494 Teesport Commerce Park the dredged depth may be Contact: Steve Talbot (UK) Limited Stokesley Business Park Contacts: Ellis Appleton or Berths 3 encountered. For the latest Weather [email protected] Polyurethanes Building Stokesley TS9 5PT Lee Scott Length 450 metres information mariners are Prevailing winds are PO Box 99 Tel: 01642 742200 [email protected] Depth 4.9 and 5.5 metres advised to consult the south-westerly. The approach Casper Shipping Limited Wilton Contact: Ben Robinsonben. Additional information Harbour Master. to the ports is exposed to Tees Wharf Redcar TS10 4YA robinson@ UK Marine Surveys Base for various offshore- Hartlepool: The approach winds from the North to Dockside Road Tel: 01642 834953 uk.mpi-offshore.com Limited related service companies channel is 1.1 kilometres long SouthEast. Local forecast Middlesbrough TS3 6AH Contact: Emma Tait Navigation House with a minimum width of available from Tees VTS. Tel: 01642 243662 [email protected] PD Ports Suite 205 Heavy Lift berth 65 metres. There is a leading Contact: Bryan Tismond 17-27 Queen’s Square Port of Tyne Berths 1 light and a lighted buoyed Working hours [email protected] ICL Fertilizers UK Limited Middlesbrough TS2 1AH South Shields Length 120 metres entrance channel. Working hours are from (Cleveland Potash Tel: 01642 877000 Tyne & Wear NE34 0AB Depth 4.9 and 5.5 metres The channel is maintained at 06.00 to 22.00. Night and CL Prosser & Co Limited Limited) Contacts: Jon Armstrong Tel: 0191 500 6331 Additional information 5.0 metres LAT. weekend working available Normanby Wharf Potash Terminal [email protected] Contact Capt. Sardar Kabir Operated by CTC Marine by arrangement. Dockside Road Tees Dock Keith Russell [email protected] Authority Middlesbrough Grangetown [email protected] PD Ports’ Berths PD Ports, Queen’s Square, TS3 8AT Middlesbrough TS6 6UD Navigator Terminals Hartlepool Dock Middlesbrough TS2 1AH Tel: 01642 241166 Tel: 01642 457131 Portrack Seafreight Limited Tel: +44 (0)1642 877000 Contact: Robert Bainbridge Contact: Mark Wilson Limited Seal Sands Victoria Harbour Fax: +44 (0)1642 877056 robert.bainbridge@ [email protected] The Grange Business Centre Middlesbrough TS2 1UA Berths 3 www.pdports.co.uk clprosser.co.uk Belasis Avenue Tel: 01642 543600 Length 825 metres Ineos Nitriles (UK) Billingham TS23 1LG Contact: Craig Briggs Depth 6.2 to 7.9 metres Ship repair ConocoPhillips Limited Tel: 01642 363598 [email protected] UK Docks operates two dry Petroleum Co UK Limited PO Box 62 Contact: Ray Woodhouse North Basin docks and provides a wide Teesside Operations Seal Sands [email protected] Wilton Group Berths 2 range of other services Units 7 & 8, Evolution Middlesbrough TS2 1TX Port Clarence Offshore Base including quayside repairs. Length 390 metres Wynyard Avenue Tel: 01642 546464 Readman Steel Limited Port Clarence Road In-Spec Services and Depth 5.1 metres Wynyard Business Park Contact: Malcolm Cole Cochranes Wharf Port Clarence TS2 1RZ MacDonald Offshore Services Wynyard TS22 5TB [email protected] Dockside Road Tel: 01642 546611 offers a general vessel repair There are other berths related Tel: 01642 546411 Middlesbrough TS3 6AW Contact: Richard Chambers service including emergency to engineering and offshore Contact: Stuart Brookes Tel: 01642 242641 richard.chambers@ repairs. construction. stuart_brookes@ Contact: Wayne Britton wiltonengineering.co.uk Seal Sands is a major conocophillips.com [email protected] petrochemical complex on the north bank of the River Tees.

60 PORT DETAILS TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK PORT USERS ASSOCIATION 61 TeesPORT AND HARTLEPOOL DIRECTORY AV Dawson Limited Best Western CL Prosser & Co Limited Darlington Borough Durham Tees Valley GCA Tankmasters UK BV Hartlepool Marine Koppers (UK) Limited/ Marton Hotel & Country NEPIC Services Key Riverside Park Road Middlesbrough Normanby Wharf Council Airport Lackenby House Engineering Carbon Materials & Club Room H224 Middlesbrough TS2 1UT (Highfield Hotel) Dockside Road Town Hall Darlington Tees Dock Unit 3D Chemicals Stokesley Road The Wiliton Centre 1 Airports Tel: 01642 219 271 335 Marton Road Middlesbrough TS3 8AT Darlington Tees Valley DL2 1LU Middlesbrough TS6 6UD Tofts Industrial Estate Port Clarence Works Marton Wiliton 2 Bulk Liquid Storage Fax: 01642 222636 Middlesbrough TS4 2PA Tel: 01642 241166 County Durham DL1 5QT Tel: 01325 332811 Tel: 01642 457672 Brenda Road Huntsman Drive Middlesbrough TS7 8DS Redcar TS10 4RF 3 Bunkering www.av-dawson.com Tel: 01642 817638 Fax: 01642 245780 Tel: 01325789654 Fax: 01325 332810 Fax: 01642 440359 Hartlepool TS25 2BS Port Clarence Tel: 01642 317141 Tel: 01642 442 560 4 Car Handling and Transport Services: 19, 35, 30, 34 www.bestwestern.co.uk www.clprosser.co.uk Services: 12 www.durhamteesvalleyairport. Services: 22 Tel: 01429 862932 Middlesbrough TS2 1SD Fax: 01642 325355 www.nepic.co.uk 5 Cargo Inspectors Services: 13 Services: 35 com Fax: 01429 865427 Tel: 01642 546040 www.martonhotel.co.uk Services: 12 6 Consulates A&P Group Limited David Fox Transport Services: 1 Gillie and Blair www.nauticalworld.co.uk www.koppers.com Services: 13 7 Bunkering Teesport Commerce Park BG Freightliner CMA-CGM 1a Bolckow Road 178 New Bridge Street Services: 16 Services: 35 NETA Training Group 8 Container Repair and storage Dockside Road 31 Stevenson Court 6th Floor Grangetown Ensus Newcastle upon Tyne Marske Site Services Pennine Avenue 9 Cranes and Crane Hire Middlesbrough TS6 6UZ Skippers Lane Industrial 75 King William Street Middlesbrough TS6 7BN The Granary Tyne & Wear NE1 2TE Heerema Hartlepool Lafarge Tarmac Limited Ellerbeck Way North Tees Industrial Estate 10 Customs and Excise Tel: 01642 464024 Estate London EC4N 7BE Tel: 01642 469552 17a High Street 01912 323431 Limited Cochranes Wharf Stokesley Business Park Portrack Lane 11 Driving Contractors Fax: 01642 460075 Middlesbrough TS6 6UT Tel: 0207 7398 3900 Fax: 01642 452238 Yarm TS15 9BW 01912 328255 Greenland Road Rockside Road Stokesley Stockton Tees TS18 2RJ 12 Economic Development www.ap-group.co.uk Tel: 01642 438383 Fax: 2073983901 www.davidfoxtransport.co.uk Tel: 01642 794040 www.gillieblair.com Hartlepool TS24 0RQ Middlesbrough TS3 6AU North Yorkshire TS9 5JZ Tel: 01642 616936 13 Hotels Services: 15, 27 www.bgfreightline.com www.cma-cgm.com Services: 34 Fax: 01642 794041 Services: 23 Tel: 01642 340200 Tel: 01642 240204 Tel: 01642 718950 Fax: 01642 612431 14 Marine Consultants Services: 25 Services: 25 www.ensusgroup.com Fax: 01642 340208 Fax: 01642 217459 Fax: 01642 718947 www.neta.co.uk 15 Marine Electronics Able UK Limited DB Schenker Rail (UK) Graypen www.hereema.com www.lafargetarmac.com www.marske.com Services: 19 16 Marine Engineers Billingham Reach Industrial BP Cats Terminal Cobra Middlesbrough Limited FVS Limited Suite 4 Services: 19 Services: 35 Services: 19 17 Marine Surveyors Estate Seal Sands Road Limited Lakeside Business Park Church Road Able House Newcastle 18 Mooring Services Haverton Hill Road Seal Sands North Road Carolina Way Stockton on Tees TS18 2LY Billingham Reach Industrial Hewden Reach Lingfield MCE PLC International Airport 19 Offshore Services Billingham TS23 1PX Middlesbrough TS2 1UB Middlesbrough TS2 1DQ Doncaster DN4 5PN Tel: 01642 617171 Estate Crane Hire Warehousing Limited Pennine House Woolsington 20 Pilots Tel: 01642 806080 Tel: 01642 546404 Tel: 01642 240684 Tel: 01302 57 5000 Services: 33 Haverton Hill Road Billingham Reach Industrial Lingfield Point Concorde way Newcastle upon Tyne 21 Port and Harbour Authorities Fax: 01642 655655 www.catspipeline.com Fax: 01642 246811 www.rail-dbschenker.co.uk Billingham TS23 1PX Estate McMullen Road Preston Farm Industrial Estate Tyne & Wear NE13 8BZ 22 Ships Agents/Frieght Forwarders www.ableuk.com Services: 35 www.cobra-railfreight.co.uk Services: 8 Faraday Centre Haverton Hill Road Darlington Stockton on Tees TS18 3TL Tel: 0871 882 1121 23 Ship Brokerss Services: 34, 35 Services: 35 Unit 3 H&P Freightways Limited Stockton-on-Tees County Durham DL1 1RW Tel: 01642 882211 Email: enquiries@ 24 Ship Classification British Steel Deepocean Limited Stepheson Court Ascot Drive Billingham TS23 1PX Tel: 01325 359795 Email: [email protected] newcastleinternational.co.uk 25 Ship Owners Abnormal Load Lackenby Works Cockfield Knight and Co Coniscliffe House Skippers Lane Industrial Fleetbridge Works Tel: 01642 566119 Fax: 01325 488172 www.mceplc.com www.newcastleinternational. 26 Ship Riggers Engineering Limited Middlesbrough TS6 7RP Limited Coniscliffe Road Estate Haverton Hill Road Services: 9 www.lingfieldwarehousing. Services: 19 com 27 Ship Repairs/Conversions Sotherby Road Tel: 01642 404040 Dinsdale House Darlington DL3 7EE Middlesbrough TS6 6UT Stockton on Tees TS18 2QF co.uk Services: 1 28 Ship Supplies/Bunkering Middlesbrough TS3 8BS Email: sections@ Riverside Park Road Tel: 01325 390500 Tel: 01642 467236 Tel: 01642 675111 Inbond Limited Services: 30 Mech Tool 29 Stevedores Tel: 01642 292299 britishsteel.co.uk Middlesbrough TS2 1UT www.deepoceangroup.com Fax: 01642 454197 Fax: 01642 606171 Malleable Way Engineering Limited Nicholsons 30 Storage Fax: 01642 242004 www.britishsteel.co.uk Tel: 01642 230111 Services: 28 www.faradaycentre.co.uk www.hpfreightways.co.uk Portrack Lane Lionweld Kennedy Whessoe Road Transport Limited 31 Towage www.ale-heavylift.com Services: 35 Fax: 01642 231651 Services: 19 Services: 22 Stockton on Tees TS18 2QX Limited Darlington Burnside House I 32 Trade and General Maritime Organisations Services: 35 www.cockfieldknight.com Denney Diving Tel: 01642 867000 Marsh Road County Durham DL3 0QT CI West Gate 33 Transport Bulkhaul Limited Services: 22, 23 54 Esplanade Feederlink Shipping & HC Controls Fax: 01642 610 Middlesbrough TS1 5J5 Tel: 01325 355141 Chiltons Avenue 34 Transport (Heavy Lift) Abnormal Load Services Brignell Road Redcar TS10 3AG Unifeeder UK Wetherby Close www.inbond.com Tel: 01642 245151 Fax: 01325 487053 Billingham TS23 1JD 35 Wharf, Jetty and Terminal Operators (International) Limited Riverside Park Industrial Conocophillips Tel: 01642 486666 Trading Limited Portrack Interchange Business Services: 30 Email: [email protected] www.mechtool.co.uk Tel: 01642 556622 1501 Hedon Road Estate Petroleum (UK) Limited Fax: 01642 483507 First Floor Unit 3 Park www.Ik.uk.com Services: 18 Fax: 01642 551144 Hull Middlesbrough TS2 1UB Site Address: www.divingdirect.co.uk Summit Business Park Stockton on Tees TS18 2SL Ineos Nitriles Services: 19 www.nicholsonstransport. Humberside HU9 5NX Tel: 01642 230423 Teesside Operations Services: 11 Langer Road Tel: 01642 671681 PO Box 62 Middlegate co.uk 01482 796214 Fax: 01642 231608 Seal Sands Felixstowe IP11 2BW Fax: 01642 676100 Seal Sands Lifting & Cooling Limited Europe Limited Services: 7, 8, 30, 33 01482 707650 www.bulkhaul.co.uk Middlesbrough TS2 1UH Dennis Dixon Limited Tel: 01394 691040 www.hccontrols.co.uk Middlesbrough TS2 1TX Polar House Unit 4 www.abnormal-loads.com Services: 33 Head office: Tilsbury Road Fax: 01394 691059 Services: 19 Tel: 01642 546464 Bowburn North Industrial Marfleet Enviromental North East Chamber Services: 34, 35 Norsea House Evolution South Bank www.feederlink.com Fax: 01642 546446 Estate Technology Park of Commerce, Trade Bushell, Nicol Wawn Wynyard Business Park Middlesbrough TS6 6AW Services: 25 HM Revenue & Customs www.basf-plc.co.uk Durham DH6 5PF Hull HU9 5LW & Industry Agility Logistics & Son Billingham Tel: 01642 456336 Eustace House Services: 35 Tel: 01913 779777 Tel: 01482 226460 Aykley Heads Business Unit 6 North 26 Hartley Avenue Teesside TS22 5TB Fax: 01642 462959 Freight Transport Teesport Fax: 01913 773131 www.middlegate.eu Centre Radius Park Whitley Bay NE26 3NT Tel: 01642 546411 www.dennis-dixon.co.uk Association Middlesbrough TS6 7SA Institute of Chartered www.liftingandcooling.com Services: 33 Aykley Heads Faggs Road Tel: 07905 278017 Fax: 01642 546096 Services: 33 Hermes House Tel: 01642 440111 Shipbrokers Services: 16 Durham DH1 5TS Feltham Services: 4, 16 www.conocophillips.co.uk 2 Manor Road Fax: 01642 430158 39 Highbury Avenue Middlesbrough Tel: 0191 3861133 Middlesex TW14 0NG Services: 35 Direct Labour Services Horsforth Services: 10 Tollesby LV Shipping Limited Borough Council Fax: 0191 3861144 Tel: 0208 917 3000 Caravel Liner Agencies Limited Leeds LS18 4DX Middlesbrough TS5 7PP Teesport Commerce Park PO Box 500 Services: 12 Fax: 0208 917 3001 (Darlington) Limited Containerships (UK) Suite 114 Tel: 01132 589861 Hambleton Group Tel: 01642 279272 Dockside Road Middlesbrough TS1 9FT Services: 22, 34 1-3 Lodge Street Limited Queens Court Business www.fta.co.uk Limited www.ics.org.uk Middlesbrough TS6 6UZ Tel: 01642 245432 P&O Ferries Darlington Haverton Hill Road Centre Services: 33 4 Fleck Way Services: 32 Tel: 01642 440744 www.middlesbrough.gov.uk Channel House Ainscough Crane Hire County Durham DL1 1TD Billingham TS23 1PS 73 Gilkes Street Teesside Industrial Estate Fax: 01642 440799 Services: 12 Channel View Road Limited Tel: 01325 351518 Tel: 01642 468592 Middlesborough TS1 5EH Freightliner Limited Stockton on Tees TS17 9JZ Intertek Testing Services www.lvshipping.com Dover Middlesbrough Road Fax: 01325 481536 Fax: 01642 770738 Tel: 01642 249099 Cleveland Terminal Tel: 01642 762534 Limited Services: 22, 19, 35 Missions To Seafarers Kent CT17 9TJ Stockton On Tees TS17 7BN Services: 22 www.containershipsgroup. Fax: 01642 244085 Trunk Road Fax: 01642 765450 Seal Sands Road Flying Angel Club Tel: 0800 130 0030 Tel: 01642 6611111 com www.directlabourservices. Grangetown www.hambletongroup.co.uk Port Clarence MPI Offshore Limited Kinderdale House Services: 22, 25 Fax: 01642 612 422 Casper Shipping Limited Services: 22 co.uk Middlesbrough TS6 7SD Services: 30 Middlesbrough TS2 1UB Resolution House Tees Dock Services: 9 Tees Wharf Services: 29 Tel: 01642 743300 Tel: 01642 546669 18 Ellerbeck Court Grangetown PSA Transport Limited Dockside Road Corrpro Companies www.freightliner.co.uk Hartgrove Brothers Fax: 01642 546107 Stokesley Business Park MIddlesbrough TS6 6UD Claire Lane Office Arco Middlesbrough TS3 6AH Europe Limited DSV Road Limited Services: 7 Station Square www.intertek.com Middlesbrough TS9 5PT Tel: 01642 460244 Road East PO Box 22 Tel: 01642 243662 Adam Street The Business Village Station Road Services: 5 Tel: 01642 742200 Fax: 01642 460994 Middlesbrough TS6 6TZ Malleable Way Fax: 01642 243936 Bowesfield Lane Drum Industrial Estate G Stiller (Transport) Redcar TS10 1RD Services: 19 Services: 32 Tel: 01642 462727 Portrack Lane www.casperltd.com Stockton on Tees TS18 3HQ Chester-le-Street Limited Tel: 01642 484663 Isotank Services Limited Services: 7 Stockton on Tees TS18 2PB Services: 22 Tel: 01642 614106 County Durham DH2 1AA Ridgeway Fax: 01642 489937 Limerick Road MP Storage & Blending MJR Controls Tel: 01642 617441 Fax: 01642 614100 Tel: 0191 4925500 Aycliffe Business Park www.hartgrove.co.uk Dormanstown Limited 85 Willows Court Parsons Fax: 01642 617025 Cleveland Containers www.corrpro.co.uk Fax: 0191 4925510 Newton Aycliffe Services: 33 Redcar TS10 5JU Deepwater Wharf Teesside Industrial Estate Containers Limited Services: 28 Cleveland House Services: 16 www.uk.dsv.com County Durham DL5 6SP Tel: 01642 488521 Dockside Road Thornaby Manor House Eston Road Services: 33 Tel: 01325 313140 Hartlepool Borough Fax: 01642 489883 Middlesbrough TS3 8AS Stockton on Tees TS17 9PP West End B&W Lifting Grangetown Cory Brothers Shipping Fax: 01325 304096 Council www.isotank.co.uk Tel: 01642 244125 Tel: 01642 762151 Sedgefield TS21 2BW Unit 2e Middlesbrough TS6 6UA Agency Limited Duncan Adams Limited www.stiller.co.uk Civic Centre Services: 7 Fax: 01642 231780 www.mjrcontrols.com Tel: 01740 629999 Vaughan Court Tel: 01642 462608 Cargo Fleet Offices Grangedock Services: 33 Victoria Road www.mpstorage.co.uk Services: 15 Fax: 01740 629989 Bolckow Road Industrial www.clevelandcontainers. Middlesbrough Road Grangemouth FK3 8UG Hartlepool TS24 8AY J Hewitt Crane Hire Services: 30 Services: 7 Estate co.uk Middlesbrough TS6 6XJ Tel: 01324 484951 Gac Travel Limited Tel: 014292 66522 Limited MSC (Mediterranean Grangetown Services: 7 Tel: 01642 264620 Fax: 01324 486838 Gac House www.hartlepool.gov.uk Teesport Commerce Park Manchester Airport Shipping Company) PD Ports (Headquarters) Middlesbrough TS6 7BJ Fax: 01642 242679 www.duncanadams.co.uk Sabatier Close Services: 12 Dockside Road Manchester Airport Medite House 17-27 Queens Square Tel: 01642 467900 Cleveland Potash www.cory.co.uk Services: 33 Thornaby Middlesbrough TS6 6UZ Manchester M90 1QX The Havens Middlesbrough TS2 1AH Fax: 01642 467900 Limited Services: 22 Stockton on Tees TS17 6EW Hartlepool Marina Tel: 01642 467482 Tel: 0800 042 0213 Ipswich Tel: 01642 877000 Services: 26 Potash Terminal Durham Lifting Limited Tel: 01642 637600 Lock Office Fax: 01642 458640 www.manchesterairport.co.uk Suffolk IP3 9SJ Email: enquiries@ Tees Dock Darchem Engineering Britannia Testhouse www.gacworld.com Slake Terrace www.hewitt-cranehire.co.uk Services: 1 Tel: 01473 277 777 pdports.co.uk BCL (Shipping) Limited Middlesbrough TS6 6UD Limited Romaldkirk Road Services: 22 Hartlepool TS24 0RU Services: 9 Email: [email protected] www.pdports.co.uk Cliff Road Tel: 01642 457131 Iron Masters Way Middlesbrough TS2 1HB Tel: 01429 865744 Mammoet (UK) Limited Services: 22, 25 Services: 21, 22, 23, 29, Ipswich Services: 35 Stillington Tel: 01642 240672 GBA Technologies Limited www.hartlepool-marina.com Jenstone Freight Limited The Grange Business Centre 30, 33 Suffolk IP3 0PS Stockton on Tees TS21 1LB Fax: 01642 247709 Alexandra Dock North Services: 18 1-5 Puddlers Road Belasis Avenue NT Whitfield Transport Tel: 01473 286079 Clevestone Trans Limited Tel: 01740 630461 www.durhamlifting.co.uk Meridan House South Bank Billingham Limited Fax: 01642 467900 Moreland Street Fax: 01740 630529 Services: 27 Grimsby DN31 3UA Middlesbrough TS6 6TX Cleveland TS23 1LG Portrack Lane Services: 8, 33 Hartlepool TS24 7NL Services: 19 Tel: 01472 246500 Tel: 01642 430020 Tel: 01642 366150 Stockton on Tees TS18 2NR Tel: 01429 279731 Fax: 01472 348751 Fax: 01642 430023 Fax: 01642 361738 Tel: 01642 603309 Fax: 01429 864414 www.gbagroup.com www.jenstone.co.uk www.mammoet.com Fax: 01642 615136 www.clevestone.co.uk Services: 4 Services: 33 Services: 18, 35, 34 Services: 33 Services: 34

62 DIRECTORY TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK TEESPORT & HARTLEPOOL PORT HANDBOOK DIRECTORY 63 PD Ports (Teesport) River Tees Southern Electrics Tees Bay Pilots Den Hartogh Logistics Teesport Port Health Authority Unit 4 PO Box 72 Victoria House Grangetown Belmont House Evans Business Centre Coulby Newham Pearson Court Middlesbrough TS6 6UD Rectory Lane Orion Way Middlesbrough TS8 0FY Pearson Way Tel: 01645 877000 Guisborough TS14 7FD North Shields NE29 7SN Tel: 01642 485648 Teesdale Email: enquiries@pdports. Tel: 01287 612406 Tel: 01912 574981 Email: office@ Stockton on Tees TS17 6PT co.uk Services: 32 www.southern-electronics. teesbaypilots.co.uk Tel: 01642 669018 www.pdports.co.uk co.uk www.teesbaypilots.co.uk Email: logistics@ Services: 21, 22, 23, 29, Road Haulage Services: 15, 18, 27, 28 Services: 20 denhartogh.com 30, 33 Association Limited www.denhartogh.com Roadway House Speedy Services Tees & Hartlepool Services: 33 PD Ports (Hartlepool) Littlewood Drive Unit 1 Pilotage Company SERVICES OFFERED Hartlepool Dock West 26 Industrial Estate Sotherby Road Limited Navigator Terminals Cleveland Road Cleckheaton BD19 4TQ Middlesbrough 17-27 Queens Square Seal Sands Hartlepool TS24 0UZ Tel: 01274 863100 Cleveland TS3 8BS Middlesbrough TS2 1AH Middlesbrough TS2 1UA 01648 877000 Fax: 01274 865855 Tel: 01642 244555 Tel: 01642 877000 Tel: 01642 546 767 [email protected] www.rha.uk.net Fax: 01642 24407 Fax: 01642 877056 Fax: 01642 543 601 www.pdports.co.uk Services: 32 www.speedyservices.com Services: 20 www.navigatorterminals.com Services: 21, 22, 23, 29, Services: 18 Services: 2, 30, 35 Project freight Logistics Warehousing Ship Custom Barging, inland Ships Agency & Export Rail Freight Heavy lift Dangerous forwarding services & storage chartering management shipping & LCT stevedoring packaging engineering goods S&MC Transport Limited Tees Inshore Engineering 30, 33 management solutions & operations 28 High Street Spliethoff’s Cochranes Wharf Readman Steel Limited PD Ports (Billingham) Stockton on Tees TS18 1SF Bevrachtingskantoor BV Dockside Road Cochranes Wharf Cowpen Lane Industrial Tel: 01642 678709 Radarweg 36 Middlesbrough TS3 6AU Dockside Road Estate Fax: 01642 604214 1042 AA Amsterdam Tel: 01642 217363 Middlesbrough TS3 6AW INDUSTRIES Billingham TS23 4DB Services: 33 The Netherlands Email: [email protected] Tel: 01642 242641 Tel: 01648 877000 Tel: +31 204 488400 Services: 19 Fax: 01642 241912 Email: enquiries@pdports. Sabic UK Petrochemicals Fax: +31 204 488500 Services: 35 co.uk Wilton Centre www.spliethoff.com Tees Licensed www.pdports.co.uk Redcar TS10 4RF Services: 25 Foyboatmen’s WH Bowker Services: 22, 30, 33 Tel: 01642 453366 Association Limited (International) Limited www.sabic.com Stephenson Transport Graving Dock Littlefair Road Oil & gas Energy Steel industry Petrochemical Construction Automotive Retail & Consumer Maritime Utilities Portrack Handling 8 Beeford Close Dockside Road Hedon Road & mining goods industry Limited Sarens (UK) Limited Billingham TS23 3YJ Middlesbrough TS3 8AT Hull The Grange Business Centre Booth House Tel: 01642 560314 Tel: 01642 454494 East Yorkshire HU9 5LP Belasis Avenue Riverside Park Road Fax: 01642 560314 Tel: 01482 706557 Billingham TS23 1LG Middlesbrough TS2 1UT Services: 33 Tees Valley Fax: 01482 706533 GLOBAL OFFICE LOCATIONS Tel: 01642 558276 Tel: 01642 621621 Combined Authority www.bowkertransport.co.uk Services: 29 Fax: 01642 621620 Stockton on Tees Cavendish House Services: 33 www.sarrens.com Borough Council Teesdale Business Park Prestons Of Potto Services: 9 Municipal Buildings Stockton on Tees Wilton Group Potto Church Road Tees Valley TS17 6QY Port Clarence Offshore Base Nothallerton Samskip Limited Stockton on Tees TS18 1LD Tel: 01642 524400 Port Clarence Road North Yorkshire DL6 3HX Bridge House Tel: 01642 393939 Email: info@ Port Clarence Tel: 01642 700243 Wherstead Park www.stockton.gov.uk teesvalley-ca.gov.uk Middlesbrough TS2 1RZ Fax: 01642 700081 Wherstead Services: 12 www.teesvalleyunlimited. Tel: 01642 546611 Services: 33 Ipswich IP9 2BJ gov.uk Fax: 01642 545926 Tel: 01473 222070 Sub Aqua Services: 12 www.wiltonengineering.co.uk Mobile Mini UK Limited www.samskip.com Diving Services Services: 16, 19 Teesport Commerce Park Services: 25 17 Tame Road Teesside Dockside Road Lawson Industrial Estate Warehousing Limited Middlesbrough TS6 6UZ Sembcorp Utilities Middlesbrough TS3 6LL 4 Fleck Way Tel: 01642 463463 Teesside Limited Tel: 01642 212000 Teesside Industrial Estate Fax: 01642 465465 PO Box 1985 Fax: 01642 252282 Stockton on Tees TS17 9JZ www.mobilemini.co.uk Wilton International www.subaquadivingservices. Tel: 01642 76534 Services: 30 MIddlesbrough TS90 8WS co.uk Fax: 01642 765450 Tel: 01642 212000 Services: 11 www.thehambletongroup. CSG Recyc-Oil Email: commercial@ co.uk Murdock Road sembcorp.com Subsea 7 Services: 30 East Middlesbrough Industrial www.sembcorp.co.uk 40 Brighton Road Estate Services: 33 Sutton SM2 5BN Towne Lifting MIddlesbrough TS3 8TB Tel: 0208 722 6025 & Testing Company Tel: 01642 242792 SGS Oil, Gas www.subsea7.com Pennine Avenue www.CSG.co.uk & Chemicals Services: 11 North Tees Industrial Estate Services: 2 Pertroservice House Portrack Macklin Avenue Suttons UK Stockton on Tees TS18 2RJ Redcar & Cleveland Billingham TS23 4BY Gorsey Lane Tel: 01642 611035 Borough Council Tel: 01642 561612 Widnes www.towne.co.uk Redcar & Cleveland House Fax: 01642 564420 Cheshire WA8 0GG Services: 26 Kirkleatham Street www.sgs.com Tel: 01514 202020 Redcar TS10 1RT Services: 5 Email: saleseurope@ Trans-store Tel: 01642 774774 suttonsgroup.com Dockside Road www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk Inter Terminals www.suttonsgroup.com Middlesbrough TS3 6AH Services: 12 Seal Sands Services: 33 Tel: 01642 244975 Middlesbrough TS2 1UB Fax: 01642 246161 Reed Boardall Cold Tel: 01642 546775 Svitzer UK www.trans-store.co.uk Storage Limited Fax: 01642 546076 Tees Wharf Services: 30 Bar Lane www.interterminals.com Dockside Road Boroughbridge Services: 2, 30, 35 Middlesbrough TS3 6AB Unite the Union Index of Advertisers York YO51 9NN Tel: 0845 608 1341 Fry Street Tel: 01423 321313 Sims Metal Management Email: [email protected] Middlesbrough TS1 1HA A&P Group 42 Fax: 01423 321314 Windermere Road www.svitzer.com Tel: 01642 242314 AV Dawson Inside Front Cover www.reedboardall.com Longhill Industrial Estate Services: 31 Fax: 01642 254145 Forte Martitime Marine Consultants 46 Services: 30 Hartlepool TS25 1NX www.unitetheunion.org Inter Terminals Limited 2 Tel: 01429 267884 Offshore Structures Services: 32 JDR 4 Rinnen UK Limited Fax: 01429 861989 (Britain) Limited LV Shipping Inside Back Cover Laing Close www.simsmm.co.uk Haverton House Marine Fabricators Limited 36 CONTACT US Bolckow Industrial Estate Services: 33 Haverton Hill MPI Workboats 42 Grangetown Billingham TS23 1PZ Navigator Back Cover Middlesbrough TS6 7AE Tel: 01642 686140 Offshore Structures Britain Limited 32 You can contact your nearest LV Shipping & Transport office using the details below: Tel: 01642 463000 Email: enquiries@ PD Ports 28 Fax: 01642 463111 offshorestructures.uk Portrack Seafreight Limited 36 www.rinnen.com www.offshorestructures.uk Recyc-oil 24 Middlesbrough Sunderland Newcastle Services: 8 Services: 16, 19 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council 46 Redcar Bulk Terminal Limited 6 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Svitzer Marine Limited 46 Tees Valley Combined Authority 20 01642 440744 0191 5100611 0191 4832290

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