FREIGHT BUSINESS JOURNAL


DAY 3


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Chris Lewis - Editor FBJ, chris.lewis@f j-online.com Teesport container trade


PD Ports has taken delivery of a new ship to shore crane for Teesport. The £6 million machine has now been assembled at the port aſt er being manufactured by Liebherr Container Cranes in Killarney, Ireland and Rostock, Germany. Co-fi nanced by the European


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Union’s Connecting Europe Facility, it will serve Teesport Container Terminal Two (TCT2). Teesport’s container volumes have grown 12% year on year for the last seven years, and the addition of a fi ſt h ship to shore crane will become critically important to serve larger container vessels. PD Ports’ chief executive offi cer,


Frans Calje, commented: “We have been gradually building our


container platform over the last ten years and we have continued to see year on year growth as a result of our investment. “This increase in volume has


been supported by our wider portcentric logistics off er and direct rail links to the North and South of the UK. This has enabled us to support our customers in achieving greater fl exibility in their supply chains, cutting costs, saving road miles and reducing emissions. “In line with our volume growth


we’re committed to developing, upgrading and enhancing capacity to meet the demands of our customers and to positioning Teesport as the northern gateway for containerised goods serving Northern UK markets.”


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Could a post-Brexit emulate the likes of Singapore or the UAE in becoming a free trade zone off the western coast of Europe? Experts at the Multimodal show in Birmingham said it was certainly possible. Neil Gould, managing director of Bibby International


Logistics, the freight forwarding arm of the Liverpool-based transport and logistics group, said that there were role models for the UK in other parts of the world, though not


necessarily in Europe. There are now very few free trade zones in western Europe, and only a handful in eastern Europe, he said. But further afi eld, there were “huge success stories” in,


for example, the UAE, or Shenzhen in China. But for the UK to emulate their success, government, transport operators and infrastructure providers would need to work together. Managing director of the Chartered Institute of Logistics


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and Transport’s ports, maritime and waterways forum, Sue Terpilowski said the concept chimed in well with the UK government’s desire to turn the country into an ‘Exporting Zone’. Later, in an interview with FBJ, BIFA director general


Robert Keen argued that Brexit could be an incentive for the UK to strip out unnecessary customs legislation and also reduce the number of interventions at the border by government agencies. Customs duties and tariff s could be made much simpler,


he suggested. One common feature of successful trading nations like the UAE and Singapore was that their customs duties were very straightforward.


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