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Edinburgh Chamber honours work of a lifetime at Forth Ports

[ March 1, 2024   //   Chris Lewis ]

Forth Ports outgoing chief executive Charles Hammond has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. Charles Hammond, who already has an OBE, steps down from the Scottish and English ports operator after 23 years later this year. He received the accolade at a ceremony in Edinburgh on the evening of 29 February. Forth Ports were also successful at the annual business awards winning in the Large Business of the Year category.

He joined Forth Ports when it was a publicly run ports and river authority in 1989 as company secretary and was appointed chief executive in 2001. He has overseen Forth Ports’ expansion to a point today when the company owns and operates eight commercial ports, including Tilbury, six ports on the Firth of Forth and Dundee on the Firth of Tay.

Forth Ports is the only port company in the UK to have successfully delivered two Freeport bids, one in the Forth Estuary and one in Tilbury.

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