Teesport
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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°WCoordinates: 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 |
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Website Teesport @ PDPorts |
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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 approximately 3 miles (5 km) inland from the North Sea and 3 miles (5 km) 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.
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. Teesport is the logistical hub for the commodity chemical and steel companies that are members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC).
Teesport's facilities include:
Landside clients include Hanson plc who operate a major cement works, and a landfill site which uses non-hazardous waste to backfill the site of the former Tees Dock facility.Tesco operate a 1,200,000 feet (370,000 m) high-bay non-food storage and distribution facility at Teesport. The currently under-construction Teesport Renewable Energy Plant is scheduled to come into operation in 2015.
In February 2008, PD Ports were given planning permission to redevelop the former Shell Oil refinery in a £350 million scheme that would create a new container facility, entitled the Northern Gateway Terminal, which would raise TEU capacity of the entire port to 1.5 million TEU. However, due to the 2008 economic downturn, PD Ports put back the start of development until 2010 at the earliest, with the programme now scheduled to complete in 2020.
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