Felixstowe Dockers PORT OF FELIXSTOWE LOGISTICS PARK RECEIVES PLANNING CONSENT

Felixstowe Dockers.

To keep Felixstowe Dockers and other Dockers around the world informed as to what is going on around us all. Photo credit Harwich Haven Authority. Thursday, 3 December 2015. PORT OF FELIXSTOWE LOGISTICS PARK RECEIVES PLANNING CONSENT. Port of Felixstowe (PFL) is the largest container port in the UK, and one of the largest in Europe.

PFL is a member of the Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Group. Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Limited (CK Hutchison), is the world's leading port investor, developer and operator. The HPH network of port operations comprises 319 berths in 52 ports, spanning 26 countries throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Over the years, HPH has expanded internationally into other logistics and transportation-related businesses. These include cruise ship terminals, airport operations, distribution centres, rail services, and ship repair facilities. In 2014, the HPH port network handled a combined throughput of 82.9 million TEU worldwide.

Fight is On to Gather Up UK Trade. UK – The battle for primacy amongst Britain’s deep water container ports saw another significant development this week when the first phase of a 1.4 million square foot logistics park at the Port of Felixstowe received planning permission. A port which got the jump on others when containerisation swept the industry in the 1960’s and ‘70’s to develop into the country’s largest cargo facility with a combination of a low local wage scale in an area then crying out for employment, is now in a fight to maintain its status in the face of growing opposition from the likes of Southampton, and in particular DP World’s London Gateway . Whilst port managers HPH insist that the new logistics park ‘will benefit from the same excellent road and rail connections developed to serve Felixstowe’ there have of course always been complaints that the A14 is ill suited to the volume of traffic it is expected to handle, and factors such as an accident on the Orwell Bridge can cause serious delays. Currently road haulage services at the port are rated as the best ever in terms of equipment available according to a leading freight forwarder, doubtless due to a falling off of tonnage, however rail services are generally still efficient, if a day or two slower than road.