"diversified to container cargo and cruise ships. Up until the 1950s the Port of London was a major international port on the River Thames, but changes in shipping and the use of containers and larger ships, have led to its decline. Thamesport, a small semi-automated container port (with links to the Port of Felixstowe, the UK's largest container port) thrived for some years, but has been hit hard by competition from the emergent London Gateway port and logistics hub. In mainland Europe, it is normal for ports to be publicly owned, so that, for instance, the ports of Rotterdam and"
"London Gateway DP World London Gateway is a recently-developed port within the wider Port of London, United Kingdom. The site is a fully integrated logistics facility, comprising a semi-automated, deep-sea container terminal on the same site as the UK's largest land bank for development of warehousing, distribution facilities and ancillary logistics services. The facility is located on the north bank of the River Thames in Thurrock, Essex, 30 miles (48 km) east of central London. The deep-water port opened in November 2013 and is able to handle the biggest container ships in the world. The port is now linked on"
"Greenwich, Silvertown, Barking, Dagenham and Erith in Greater London. The Port of London handles containers, timber, paper, vehicles, aggregates, crude oil, petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gas, coal, metals, grain and other dry and liquid bulk materials. In 2012 London was the second largest port in the United Kingdom by tonnage handled (43.7 million), after Grimsby and Immingham (60 million). The Port of London however handles the most non-fuel cargo of any port in the UK (at 32.2 million tonnes in 2007). Other major rival ports to London in the country are Felixstowe and Southampton, which handle the most and second-most"
"following the purchase of the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company. Townsend Thoresen had begun a twice daily service from Felixstowe to Zeebrugge in 1974. By 1978, European Ferries had purpose built a passenger and freight terminal from which its subsidiary Townsend Thoresen could operate. Under the management of European Ferries, Felixstowe increased its container handling capacity to approximately 500,000 per annum and in 1980 a total of 252,802 containers were handled, making it the United Kingdoms largest container port. In 1984, Felixstowe became the first UK seaport to introduce computerised Customs clearance. The management of the port was continued by"
"number of containers of British ports; in 2012 London handled the third most and the Medway ports (chiefly London Thamesport) the fifth. The number of twenty-foot equivalent units of containers handled by the Port of London exceeded two million in 2007 for the first time in the Port's history and this continued in 2008. The Port's capacity in handling modern, large ships and containers is set to dramatically expand with the completion of the London Gateway port project, which will be able to handle up to 3.5 million TEUs per year when fully completed. With around 12,500 commercial shipping movements"
"Port of Southampton The Port of Southampton is a passenger and cargo port in the central part of the south coast of England. The modern era in the history of the Port of Southampton began when the first dock was inaugurated in 1843. The port has been owned and operated by Associated British Ports since 1982, and is the busiest cruise terminal and second largest container port in the UK. The port is ten miles () inland, between the confluence of the rivers Test and Itchen and the head of the mile-wide drowned valley known as Southampton Water. The mouth"
"and the world's busiest container port in 2009 and 2010, respectively. It is followed by the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong, both of which are in Asia. Europe's busiest container port and biggest port by cargo tonnage by far is the Port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. It is followed by the Belgian Port of Antwerp or the German Port of Hamburg, depending on which metric is used. In turn, the Spanish Port of Valencia is the busiest port in the Mediterranean basin. The largest ports include the ports of Los Angeles and South Louisiana in the U.S., Manzanillo"
"Felixstowe Felixstowe ( ) is a seaside town in Suffolk, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 23,689. The Port of Felixstowe is the largest container port in the United Kingdom. The old Felixstowe hamlet was centred on a pub and church, having stood on the site since long before the Norman conquest of England. The early history of Felixstowe, including its Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Norman and medieval defences, is told under the name of Walton, because the name Felixstowe was given retrospectively, during the 13th century, to a place which had expanded to a form beyond the"
"Port of London The Port of London lies along the banks of the River Thames from the capital to the North Sea. Once the largest port in the world, it is currently the United Kingdom's second largest port, after Grimsby & Immingham. The port is governed by the Port of London Authority (PLA), a public trust established in 1908 whose responsibility extends over the Tideway of the River Thames, but which neither owns or operate any facilities. The port can handle cruise liners, roll-on roll-off ferries, and cargo of all types. It is not located in one area but stretches"
"Jawaharlal Nehru Port Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as Nhava Sheva, is the largest container port in India. Located east of Mumbai (previously known as 'Bombay') in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, this port on the Arabian Sea is accessed via Thane Creek. Its common name derives from the names of Nhava and Sheva villages that were situated here. This port is also the terminal of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (in construction). Jawaharlal Nehru Port is also commonly referred as JNPT (short for Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust). The port was established on 26 May 1989. JN Port is the biggest container handling"
"of all UK imports coming from Asia, it was important that the port secured these high-volume services. Given the state of the container shipping industry at the time the port opened - with major shipping companies are increasingly grouped in alliances already committed to existing ports, and rationalising their services as they use ever bigger ships - it is reported to have processed 300,000 containers in 2014, its first full year of operation. This is reasonably successful for a new facility facing a lot of inertia from users. The port and Logistics Park is now nearing critical mass. The port"
"and DP World sold its shares on Shekou Container Terminals Phase 1 (22.5%) and Phase 2 (owned indirectly 22.5% shares), a port of Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, to a joint venture company of China Merchants Holdings (International) and Modern Terminals Limited (MTL), for which MTL bore the whole cost. Shenzhen was ranked 4th in list of world's busiest container ports and Shekou Container Terminals was one of the four major terminals of Shenzhen. P&O (aka DP World) manages two ports in the UK: P&O operates the following ferry companies: Other port operators in the UK include: P&O (company) P&O"
"commercial docks of the Port of Bristol at Portbury and Avonmouth. Since privatisation in 1991 trade has increased to 12 million tonnes per annum, with a revenue exceeding £75 million, making it the fifteenth largest port in the UK, tenth largest in England. The main trades are forest products, cars, containers, bulk (coal, grain, animal feeds, aggregates), liquids (petroleum, aviation fuel, molasses, fruit juice), metals, and fresh produce. Plans are in place to massively increase capacity by building a new deepsea container terminal capable of handling ships up to 12,000 TEU. As one of the largest ports in the UK,"
"freeport. The PLA ceased to be a port operator, retaining the role of managing the Thames. Much of the disused land of the upstream London Docklands is in the process of being developed for housing and as a second financial district for London (centred on Canary Wharf). The Port of London today comprises over 70 independently owned terminals and port facilities, directly employing over 30,000 people. These are mainly concentrated at Purfleet (with the world's largest margarine works), Thurrock, Tilbury (the Port's current main container facility), London Gateway, Coryton and Canvey Island in Essex, Dartford and Northfleet in Kent, and"
"CMA CGM Marco Polo CMA CGM Marco Polo is a UK-registered container ship of the owned by the CMA CGM group. On 6 November 2012, it became the largest container ship in the world measured by capacity (16,020 ""TEU""), but was surpassed on 24 February 2013 by the Maersk Triple E class (18,270 ""TEU""), which is 4 metres (13.1 ft) longer at precisely 400m in length. It is named for Venetian merchant and traveller Marco Polo. The previous largest was ""Emma Mærsk"" and her seven sisters of the (15,500 ""TEU""). The capacity is 10,000 ""TEU"" if all are fully loaded"
"having the highest level of cycle use in the UK with between 18% and 25% of residents travelling to work by bicycle and nearly 50% of residents cycling at least once a week - the highest figure of any town or city in the UK - in a Sport England survey published in 2012. The Port of Felixstowe is the busiest container port in the United Kingdom and is a key gateway for container traffic into the country dealing with over 40% of container traffic. The port is operated by Hutchison Ports, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, and employs over"
"as well as most of North India. Jawaharlal Nehru Port Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as Nhava Sheva, is the largest container port in India. Located east of Mumbai (previously known as 'Bombay') in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, this port on the Arabian Sea is accessed via Thane Creek. Its common name derives from the names of Nhava and Sheva villages that were situated here. This port is also the terminal of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (in construction). Jawaharlal Nehru Port is also commonly referred as JNPT (short for Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust). The port was established on 26 May 1989."
"products. The port is large and deep enough to accommodate even very large ships, such as the ""Maya"" of the Mediterranean Shipping Company that arrived at the port on 21December 2015. It was then the world's largest container ship, long with a draft of and a 19,224 TEU capacity. Port of Gothenburg The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg () is the largest port in the Nordic countries, with over 11,000 ship visits per year from over 140 destinations worldwide. As the only Swedish port with the capacity to cope with the very largest modern, ocean-going container ships, Gothenburg handles nearly 30%"
"Port of Liverpool The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river. The port was extended in 2016 by the building of an in-river container terminal at Seaforth Dock, name Liverpool2. The terminal can berth two 14,000 container Post-Panamax ships. Garston Docks, which are in the city of Liverpool, are not a part of the Port of Liverpool. The working docks are operated by Mersey Docks"
"14 ton containers, compared to 11,000 for ""Emma Mærsk"" and even more for the Triple E Class. CMA CGM Marco Polo CMA CGM Marco Polo is a UK-registered container ship of the owned by the CMA CGM group. On 6 November 2012, it became the largest container ship in the world measured by capacity (16,020 ""TEU""), but was surpassed on 24 February 2013 by the Maersk Triple E class (18,270 ""TEU""), which is 4 metres (13.1 ft) longer at precisely 400m in length. It is named for Venetian merchant and traveller Marco Polo. The previous largest was ""Emma Mærsk"" and"
"used as pay and display car parking with a large grass open area used for both recreation and for overflow parking during peak times. Toilet facilities are available on site. The beach below can be accessed on foot via steps. Morrisons Park Langley Avenue Sports Field (private) Felixstowe is Britain's largest container port. The main navigation channel is dredged to below chart datum, and a depth of up to alongside the quay. Felixstowe boasts deep-water able to accommodate the world's latest generation of deep-draughted ultra post-Panamax vessels. There is a continuous quay of , equipped with 25 ship-to-shore gantry cranes."
"their origins to military bases built during World War I or World War II, giving pleasure flights or flying lessons; these include Clacton Airfield, Earls Colne Airfield, and Stapleford Aerodrome. The Port of Tilbury is one of Britain's three major ports, while the port of Harwich has passenger and freight services to the Hook of Holland and a freight service to Europoort. A service to Esbjerg, Denmark ceased in September 2014 and earlier a service to Cuxhaven in Germany was discontinued in December 2005. The UK's largest container terminal London Gateway at Shell Haven in Thurrock partly opened in November"
"owned by the UK Government. It is only one of four UK ports that are capable of handling Capesize vessels. Located in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland in the historic county of North Yorkshire, the bulk terminal is on the south bank of the River Tees. It is the deepest part of the Teesport area and the deepest port () in eastern England. The port is capable of handling Panamax and Capesize vessels, with Redcar being only one of four that can take the Capesize vessels in the United Kingdom. The site at Redcar had been used as a"
"Port of Le Havre The Port of Le Havre is the Port and port authority of the French city of Le Havre. It is the second-largest commercial port in France in terms of overall tonnage, and the largest container port, with three sets of terminals. It can accommodate all sizes of world cruise liners, and a major new marina is being planned. Le Havre is linked to Portsmouth, England, by Brittany Ferries. The port consists of a series of canal-like docks, the Canal de Tancarville and the Grand Canal du Havre, that connect Le Havre to the Seine, close to"
"m wide and is operated by Northwestern Shiprepairers Limited using the name Scott Lithgow, although unrelated to the famous Port Glasgow Scott Lithgow shipbuilding company. The Firth of Clyde has one of the deepest sea entrance channels in northern Europe, which can accommodate the largest Capesize vessels afloat, and as such the Clyde is one of the UK's leading ports, handling some 7.5 million tonnes of cargo each year. Hunterston Terminal was constructed to bring in bulk ore, but now mainly deals with coal imports. Supertankers up to 324,000 tonnes travel up the firth to deliver crude oil to Finnart"
"Seaforth Dock Seaforth Dock (also known as the Royal Seaforth Dock) is a purpose-built dock and container terminal, on the River Mersey, England, at Seaforth, to the north of Liverpool. As part of the Port of Liverpool and Liverpool Freeport, it is operated by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company. Situated at the northern end of the dock system, it is connected to Gladstone Dock to the south, which via its lock entrance provides maritime access to Seaforth Dock from the river. Despite planning permission having been obtained almost sixty years previously, work commenced during the 1960s on Liverpool's largest"
"Port of Rotterdam The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, located in the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands. From 1962 until 2004 it was the world's busiest port, now overtaken first by Singapore and then Shanghai. In 2011, Rotterdam was the world's eleventh-largest container port in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) handled (2009: tenth; 2008: ninth, 2006: sixth). In 2012 Rotterdam was the world's sixth-largest port in terms of annual cargo tonnage. Covering , the port of Rotterdam now stretches over a distance of . It consists of the city centre's historic harbour area, including Delfshaven; the"
"dock facility. In part the work was intended to reconstruct or compensate for damage suffered during World War II. The dock was the largest built in the United Kingdom for some time, with of quay and a depth of and world's largest lock gates. Opened in 1971, the site consists of about , of which is water. Technological changes, such as containerization, caused the loss of numerous jobs on the docks. In the 21st century, the dock handles mainly containers, oils, timber, fruit and vegetables, grain and animal feed. The dock became a free port in 1984. A fruit and"
"from the airport. The Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands is the largest port in Europe and one of the busiest ports in the world, handling some 440 million metric tons of cargo in 2013. When the associated Europoort industrial area is included, Rotterdam is by certain measurements the world's busiest port. Two thirds of all inland water freight shipping within the E.U., and 40% of containers, pass through the Netherlands. Other large ports are the Port of Hamburg in Germany and the Port of Antwerp in Belgium. They are all a part of the so-called ""Northern Range"". The English Channel is"
"Port of Portland (Maine) The Port of Portland is the largest tonnage seaport in New England as well as a major seaport along the east coast of the United States. It is also the second largest oil port on the East Coast, processing of oil in 2007, mostly through the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line, and the largest foreign inbound transit tonnage port in the United States. A ferry company Casco Bay Lines, operated by the Casco Bay Islands Transit District, currently operates ferry services from the Port of Portland to several outlying islands. From 1970-2008 the Port of Portland was connected"
"Port of Dover The Port of Dover is the cross-channel port situated in Dover, Kent, south-east England. It is the nearest English port to France, at just away, and is one of the world's busiest passenger ports, with 11.7 million passengers, 2.6 million lorries, 2.2 million cars and motorcycles and 80,000 coaches passing through it in 2017, with an annual turnover of £58.5 million a year. The Channel Tunnel in nearby Cheriton now takes an estimated 20 million passengers and 1.6 million trucks. The port has been owned and operated by the Dover Harbour Board, a statutory corporation, since it"
"Port Salford Port Salford is a freight terminal on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Barton-upon-Irwell in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, approximately west of Manchester city centre. The port is part of the Atlantic Gateway project and its construction was led by Peel Ports, a subsidiary of the Peel Group, and was opened in 2016. Port Salford cost £400 million to construct. Port Salford is based on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal, the only ship canal in the United Kingdom and the eighth longest in the world. The canal connects Manchester, a national city of cultural"
"Container City Container City is the name given to two pieces of shipping container architecture in east London. It is principally a means of utilising standard forty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers, at the end of their life, to produce flexible accommodation and offices at low cost. A number of buildings have been installed using this method, primarily in east London. The first (""Container City I"") was installed in 2001, in four days, and fitted out over five months, at Trinity Buoy Wharf, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. This was expanded with a second phase (""Container City II"") in"