Precision Stevedores – the flexible labour and training provider for ports and port-centric businesses – has selected the innovative Intelligent Fingerprinting drug testing solution to help support its active employee drug policy at leading UK ports. Precision Stevedores will initially use Intelligent Fingerprinting’s system for rapid pre-employment drug screens and… Read more »
ABP commences work on the Humber’s largest roof mounted solar scheme
ABP is investing £6.8 million in the Port of Hull to install the Humber’s largest roof mounted solar scheme. Currently, installations at the Ports of Immingham and Goole produce 4.5 MW and 1.1 MW respectively. Once completed, the 6.5 MW solar scheme at the Port of Hull will more than… Read more »
Project Pilgrim – £33 Million Investment to Immingham Container Terminal
Currently, there are six electric rubber tyre gantry cranes travelling from China to the Port of Immingham as part of the Project Pilgrim. Project Pilgrim is a £33 million upgrade to Immingham Container Terminal to future proof the terminal and extend its footprint. The cranes are due to arrive in… Read more »
Strong harvest season doubles grain export volumes at Port of Ipswich
ABP’s Port of Ipswich has more than doubled its grain export volumes this harvest season, reporting 500,000 tonnes exported from the port in the months of June to November 2019. This represents more than a twofold increase in tonnage volumes when compared with the figures in 2018, which saw the… Read more »
Strike threat at UK’s largest container port in Felixstowe
Engineers at the Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s busiest and largest container port, have voted to take strike action over outsourcing. The union Unite has claimed that the port is transferring engineering jobs in a bid to cut costs. 116 engineers voted 98% to take strike action over a plan… Read more »
PD Ports concludes first phase of major investment in steel handling facility
Major UK port operator, PD Ports, has successfully concluded the first phase of a multi-million pound steel handling facility at Groveport in partnership with one of Europe’s fastest growing international steel traders and long-standing customer, All Steels Trading. Construction of the new facility, which commenced in March, signifies the largest… Read more »
Atlantic Container Line signs 15-year agreement with Peel Ports Group
Atlantic Container Line (ACL), a Grimaldi Group Company, has agreed a new 15-year contract extension for container and roll-on/roll-off operations at the Port of Liverpool until 2035. ACL is already the largest ocean carrier operating at Liverpool’s Royal Seaforth Container Terminal (RSCT) and the port’s longest serving container carrier. This… Read more »
Peel Ports hits record container throughput
Peel Ports is celebrating a record-breaking month for its container operations at the Port of Liverpool. Quayside and landside throughput in October at its Liverpool container terminals exceeded all previous figures on record with year on year growth of 12%. The cargoes were connected with a total of 16 shipping… Read more »
UK’s largest grain shipment at Bristol Port
The largest shipment of grain to be exported from the UK this season will set sail this month from Royal Portbury Dock, furthering Bristol’s reputation as the port of choice for South West farmers and a key global gateway for the agricultural trade. Up to 64,000 tonnes of barley is… Read more »
Peel Ports Runcorn Docks fully open for business
Peel Ports Group has marked the full reopening of Runcorn Docks on the Manchester Ship Canal, following a £4million programme of works. Over the last 14 months, Peel Ports has worked with McLaughlin and Harvey to reinstate and upgrade two of its 4 berths one of which was closed in… Read more »
