Teesport
| Teesport | |
|---|---|
 Container terminal TCT1, August 2009 | |
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| Location | |
| Country | England |
| Location | River Tees, North Yorkshire |
| Coordinates | 54°36′14″N 1°09′29″W / 54.604°N 1.158°W |
| Details | |
| Owned by | PD Ports |
| Land area | 200 hectares (490 acres) |
| Statistics | |
| Vessel arrivals | 6,000 |
| Annual cargo tonnage | 56 million tonnes |
| Annual container volume | 500,000 TEU |
| Website Teesport @ PDPorts | |
Teesport is a large sea port located in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, Northern England.
Owned by PD Ports, it is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the North Sea and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Middlesbrough, on the River Tees. Teesport is currently the third largest port in the United Kingdom, and amongst the ten biggest in Western Europe, handling over 56 million tonnes of domestic and international cargo per year.[1]
Description
The port covers an area of 200 hectares (490 acres) of land alongside the southern bank of the River Tees. Presently handling over 6,000 ships and 56 million tonnes of cargo per annum, Teesport is mostly associated with the handling of steel, petrochemical, manufacturing, engineering and retail.[2]
Facilities
Teesport's facilities include:[3]
- Tees Dock Terminal: handling bulk cargo, which accounts for 73% of the port's volume.[1]
- Redcar Ore Terminal: deep-sea bulk terminal facility that handles more than eight million tons of imports a year, mainly iron ore
- Cleveland Potash bulk terminal: handles more than a million tons of potash and salt exports, mainly from Boulby Mine
- Steel Export Terminal: equipped with eight gantry cranes, it handles over a million tons of steel slab export a year. Can also handle wood imports, including tropical hardwood, fiberboard, plus softwood and pulp from Scandinavia[3]
- Teesport Container Terminals: two computerised Container quays, capable of handling 500,000 TEU per annum
- TCT1 at 294 metres (965 ft), which can hold can hold 1,872 TEU at quayside
- TCT2 at 360 metres (1,180 ft), specifically developed deep-sea cargo quay which presently handles customers including CMA CGM.[1] TCT2 has its own sepcifically built railhead, which was developed in partnership with DB Schenker Rail (UK)
- Roll-on Roll Off: P&O Ferries operates eight sailings to Rotterdam and six to Zeebrugge per week. An extension of 23 hectares (57 acres) allows the import of 100,000 cars by Renault, while General Motors sub-leases 5 hectares (12 acres)
- Dawson’s Wharf: handles dry cargo from a 500 metres (1,600 ft) river-facing quay, handling 400 thousand tonnes of bulk minerals and non-hazardous chemicals
- Cochrane’s Wharf: a 5 hectares (12 acres) site operated by Tarmac Aggregates for the import of dredged marine materials
Landside
Landside clients include Hanson plc who operate a major cement works,[4] and a landfill site which uses non-hazardous waste to backfill the site of the fromer Tees Dock facility.[5] The currently under-construction Teesport Renewable Energy Plant is scheduled to come into operation in 2015.[6]
Transport connections
PD Ports leases a number of former-British Rail Class 08 shunting locomotives from RMS Locotec to move rail traffic around the port, and to/from the two main associated marshalling yards. The port is directly rail connected to the East Coast Main Line and the Durham Coast Line, and close to the A66 trans-pennine route, and other major trunk roads.
History
The first developed facility on the current Teesport location, and actually known as Teesport, was a Royal Navy depot during World War I. This allowed the allocated six British E-class submarines to operate further into the North Sea during their defence, attack and mine laying operations. At this time, commercial port faciities were still handled at Middlesbrough Docks, located further upstream.
Teesport as we know it today was developed in the late 1970s to handle the oil imports from and field shipments to the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea, with the whole facility designed around Panamax scale ships.[1] This traffic today still represents about 50% of the cargo through the port, around 26 million tonnes a year.[1]
In 1992 the Port Authority of Tees and Hartlepool was privatised, with the original three buyers subsequently reduced to a single owner, Powell Duffryn Plc, in 1995. With traffic out scaling the ports handling and ship-scale facilities, PD Ports then developed TCT2 in 2002 specifically as a deep-sea cargo quay on top of the site that used to be the original Tees Dock.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Teesport". Autostore. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- ^ "PD Ports plc". Retrieved 2006-05-11.
- ^ a b "Port of Teesport". World Port Source. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- ^ "Teesport Works". Heidelberg Cement. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- ^ "Teesport". Impetus Waste Management. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- ^ "Tees Renewable Energy Plant". MGT Power. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
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