First 'Freeport' Activity in UK Sees Steel Consignment Arrive in Teeside

4th October 2022

The first of the UK's 'freeports' to involve cargo activity took place at Teeside in north-east England. The port operated by PD Ports was crowned 'Business of the Year' 2022 at the prestigious Maritime UK Ceremony held earlier this year. Credit: PDports-linkedin

The first activity of a Freeport anywhere in the UK, was marked with the delivery of around 100 tonnes of steel cargo at Teeside Freeport in north-east England.

The steel was delivered to the South Bank area of Teesworks, which has been designated as a customs zone as part of the region’s Freeport – the biggest and first operational.

Freeport partners worked with local shipping and trading company Blackwood Biofuels & Logistics to deliver the cargo.

The containers arrived through PD Teesport with local logistics firm AV Dawson, which also operates the Port of Middlesbrough, providing transport and manning while British Steel contributed plant and support vehicles to handle the shipment.

The first UK Customs Site Operator, Casper Shipping Ltd, has received the cargo into the site, which was bound for local manufacturing companies.

More details Multimodal reports on this port development.

Published in Ports & Shipping

Tagged under

About The Author

Jehan Ashmore

Email The Author

Jehan Ashmore is a marine correspondent, researcher and photographer, specialising in Irish ports, shipping and the ferry sector serving the UK and directly to mainland Europe. Jehan also occasionally writes a column, 'Maritime' Dalkey for the (Dalkey Community Council Newsletter) in addition to contributing to UK marine periodicals.

We've got a favour to ask

More people are reading Afloat.ie than ever thanks to the power of the internet but we're in stormy seas because advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news sites, we haven't put up a paywall because we want to keep our marine journalism open.

Afloat.ie is Ireland's only full-time marine journalism team and it takes time, money and hard work to produce our content.

So you can see why we need to ask for your help.

If everyone chipped in, we can enhance our coverage and our future would be more secure. You can help us through a small donation. Thank you.