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Former Southampton port director Doug Morrison has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours list, in recognition of a lifetime devoted to working in the UK's ports. He was port director at Southampton until his retiredment in December 2013 overseeing, among other things, a £100 million investment in the container terminal. In a 45-year career with ABP, he also worked at Hull, Goole and Ayr, where he began ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Boskalis Westminster to dredge the approach channel to the Port of Southampton. Work on the £30m contract is due to get underway shortly, with the new facilities at Southampton's container terminal due to open in the first quarter of 2014.
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Associated British Ports (ABP) signed a 15-year contract with Drax Power for new terminals and storage facilities worth up to £100m to handle wood pellet shipments at Immingham, Hull and Goole. The Selby-based power generator is switching from coal to sustainable biomass.
The development includes a dedicated import facility, the Immingham ...
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Associated British Ports has gained a licence to dredge 450,000 cubic metres at Marchwood Moorings and widen the channel for larger container ships. It is part of the port's programme to redevelop its 201/2 berths to handle the world's largest vessels. ABP has worked closely with Marchwood Yacht Club to ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) chief executive Peter Jones is to retire at the end of March 2013 and will be succeeded by James Cooper. The port operator's new chief is currently a Director of Infracapital, the European infrastructure fund of M&G Investments, one of the four investors in the Admiral ...
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Associated British Ports has awarded a £26 million contract to Liebherr for four new ship-to-shore gantry cranes as part of its redevelopment of container berths 201/202 at the Port of Southampton. Following construction at Liebherr’s factory in Ireland the cranes will be shipped to Southampton in component form before being ...
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Leading shipping and logistics organisations on the Humber have launched a website to promote the facilities and advantages of international trade through the Humber Port network; www.humberport.com
Key stakeholders ABP, AbleUK, DFDS, Danbrit, EastTrans, RMS Group, Samskip and Tschudi are behind the HumberPort initiative, which meets and is administered through the ...
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Associated British Ports Hull has signed a five-year agreement with Jenkins Shipping for the handling and storage of paper and forest products including a new 9,500 sq m warehouse in Queen Elizabeth Dock now under construction. Jenkins Shipping has won a contract for the import of paper reels manufactured in ...
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Business Secretary Vince Cable officially opened a fourth new multi-deck trade vehicle terminal at the Port of Southampton on 7 June to meet extra demand for UK car exports. The terminal is part of a major investment by Associated British Ports (ABP) to expand its vehicle export facilities. ABP announced ...
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Associated British Ports Hull has taken delivery of a new £1.7m LHM 180 mobile harbour crane. It supplements four existing Liebherr mobile harbour cranes as well as a Liebherr mobile excavator crane in King George and Queen Elizabeth Docks and will be used mainly for handling dry bulk cargoes using ...
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