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businesses with easy access to the Airport’s apron, rail station and the UK motorway network. It is expected to generate over 1,800 new jobs over the next ten- to 15-years, in addition to construction jobs. MAG said the development


aimed to tap into the approximately 60% of UK industrial output, generated in the North-west a significant proportion of which is exported. The 36.9-hectare (91.2-acre) site will be next to Junction 6 of the M56 motorway, and close to the existing airport freight area. The new buildings will all be designed and constructed to the latest environmental standards. It will be arranged around what MAG describes as a simple road system with two primary landscaped boulevards. MAG’s Airport City Director,


John Atkins, told FBJ: “It will allow us to meet our long-term


Issue 5 2012 Manchester cargo plan


aspirations to grow as a freight centre.” He explained that in the past, cargo development had been constrained by planning restrictions, but now Manchester was virtually the only major scheduled airline hub that had space in which to develop cargo. He added that it was also the only major logistics facility available in south Manchester. However, the new space would


not be aimed at the ‘big shed’ sector of the market but rather forwarders and other companies involved in high value and just- in-time logistics – not necessarily airfreight. Atkins added: “Manchester could play a role


alongside Heathrow – it could operate as a satellite airport.” Manchester Airport is the UK’s


fourth busiest airport for flown cargo, with over 107,000 tonnes of import and export freight and mail in 2011. Unlike most of the major London gateways, it still handles a significant number of cargo aircraſt, as well as bellyhold. World Logistics Hub is located


in the southern part of Greater Manchester’s Enterprise Zone, designated by the UK Government in March 2011. It forms part of the £650m Airport City project, unveiled by Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in January 2012 and which aims to transform Manchester Airport from a regional transport hub into an international business destination, attracting global businesses that would not have otherwise located in the region, or even the UK. As well as the new logistics area, it includes around 1.5 million sq ſt of office space and 650,000sq ſt of advanced manufacturing as well as hotels, shops and leisure centres. The airport is already following


up “four specific enquires” for the new cargo area and will appoint a developer partner for the Airport City. Space will be available on long leaseholds or as turnkey developments and prices would, Atkins promised, “be competitive with other developments available in the region”.


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and Portuguese connections to the Tilbury/Bilbao routing. Samskip and Transfennica also operate services to Bilbao from Tilbury. Perry Glading, chief operating


officer of Forth Ports, owners of the Port of Tilbury, said the grant “recognises the growing importance of developing Motorways of the Sea connections between the Iberian Peninsula and the UK. This substantial award will see further development of our short sea container operations within London Container Terminal over the next two years as well as achieving a modal shift from road to sea and improving overall efficiencies in the supply chains between the two countries.” He told FBJ that


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application, although long, was not particularly complicated and was in many respects more logical than applying for rail freight grants in the UK. He added: “We also got very good preparation and advice from out consultant, Richard Morton of Jura Associates. He has been in the port business for a considerable time and also has long experience of dealing with Brussels.” Mr Glading said that the Forth


Ports board had already asked him whether it would be possible to apply for further MotS funding which he said was “a good question”. Criteria for success include whether the route concerned is likely to take trucks off the roads for long distances and also the hinterland of the ports used; ports


close to large centres of population or industry tend to be favoured. Services and ports for which there is no reasonable road alternative – in other words where traffic is forced by geography to take to the water – are less likely to be successful. Traffic flows also need to be between two different member states to qualify, although a domestic coastal shipping feeder service forming art of an international transit might be eligible. Mr Glading added that Tilbury’s


success would also help “break the myth” that UK applicants are less successful than their Continental counterparts in applying for Brussels grants. “Yes, the UK always looks at the EU with a certain degree of cynicism, but I would certainly encourage others to go and look at what is available.” Jura Associates’ Richard Morton


told FBJ that there had been a perception in the UK that the funding process “involves a lot of paperwork” and also a negative perception of EU funding among UK businesses. However, it was important that this was overcome because the next round of EU funding under the EU ‘TEN-T’ programme, which includes the MotS programme could be very substantial.


Take-up of the MotS programme


throughout the EU as a whole had also weak, but the programme had been tweaked to increase the number of successful applications. He conceded, however, that the application process was potentially quite


complex and in some


respects was geared towards publicly-owned ports rather than the private sector operators that predominate in the UK. Successful applicants would naturally need their own boards to buy in to the process, but approval by relevant government ministers and also planning and water conservancy bodies must


also be obtained.


(The Commission, naturally, does not want to grant funding to projects that subsequently fail to gain planning permission or environmental approvals.) All successful applications must involve at least two ports who must be able to demonstrate that there will be a specific shift of traffic off the roads and on to water. While a certain understanding


of the Brussels process is needed, officials there were helpful and in fact prefer to discuss proposals and give an indication of their chances of success before the official call is made, Morton said. Usually, companies can attend organised sessions in Brussels to explain the process. With the Commission expected


to issue calls for the latest round of funding towards the end of the year – further details are expected to become available in late September or early October – Morton warned that it was up to ports to “use it or lose it. And if you don’t use it, your competitors might.”


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Irish Continental Group is to sell its Feederlink container shipping subsidiary to Denmark’s Unifeeder. Feederlink has since 1993 operated services between UK east coast ports and Rotterdam using a fleet of time chartered vessels, carrying 138,500teu in 2011. Unifeeder will pay in four


tranches, €20 million on closing, and up to €9 million in three tranches, deferred up to 12 months


aſter closing, conditional on certain conditions being met during the 12 months. ICG said the proceeds will be used


for general corporate purposes. Feederlink’s current management


team, led by Rob Mulder and Ingrid Van Mil, will continue to work for the combined entity. News of the sale came as ICG


announced a 21.5% fall in its operating profit


in the first six


months of 2012, to €5.1m and a 44.4% rise in its net debt to €20.8m, although chairman John McGuckian said that this was “a robust performance” in the face of a €4.5m increase in the company’s fuel


bill. The freight market


remained weak, although car and tourist traffic was holding up well. The Group’s container traffic fell from 205,300teu in the first half of 2011 to 190,900teu in 2012.


Perry Glading: taking trucks off the road


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