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Bunn deal

Bunn Fertiliser Limited has signed a five-year deal with PD Ports to supply its Scottish and northern UK customers with urea and Koch Advanced Nitrogen fertiliser products via Teesport. Teesport's 80,000 square feet of storage capacity has been added to the company’s existing network of eight terminals. [+]

World first for Hartlepool

The world’s first purpose built wind turbine installation vessel, the MPI Adventure, recently visited PD Ports Hartlepool. It was also the first time the north-eastern port has handled a vessel of this size. The visit was in connection with the Teesside Offshore Windfarm Project, for which the Port of Hartlepool ... [+]

New Navis system for Teesport

PD Ports has installed a new Navis terminal operating system at Teesport.It covers both the wide span gantry crane operations and logistics areas.  Frans Calje, PD Ports’ managing director for unitised traffic, said it would be “a fundamental change in how we do business at Teesport”. It marks the completion of PD ... [+]

PD Ports off to Asia

PD Ports chief executive officer David Robinson and business development director, Geoff Lippitt flew out to Asia in mid-November to meet customers to highlight the changing face of UK logistics. The eight day tour which includes three days in Japan and five days in Hong Kong is the first in a ... [+]

PD’s people skills recognised

PD Ports Group won the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)’s Development of People at a ceremony in London on 18 October. In the past 10 years, PD Ports has invested over £4 million in training and development programmes, including apprenticeship, graduate, H&S and back to work schemes. Currently, 926 ... [+]

Steel shipments reborn

SSI UK has exported its millionth tonne of steel slab through PD Ports-owned Teesport since it reopened a local plant mothballed in 2010. The cargo was loaded on to the Yasa Eagle on 5 October as part of a 64,000 tonne shipment, destined for Thailand, SSI's home country. David Robinson, PD ... [+]

Honour for PD’s PCs

Nine Harbour Police at the Ports of Teesport and Hartlepool have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The commemorative medal, created to mark the Queen's 60th anniversary of the accession to the throne of HM the Queen, was presented to the Harbour Police by PD Ports’ chief ... [+]

PD Ports becomes ambassador

PD Ports chief executive officer David Robinson has been appointed a regional ambassador by The Prince of Wales - in recognition of his help to improve the skills and aspirations of young people on Tees side. The Awards for Excellence, run by the Prince of Wales’ charity Business in the Community, ... [+]

Partnership pays off for PD Ports

PD Ports’ container terminal at Teesport has won the ‘Over £4m Project’ category at the annual Robert Stephenson Awards, which are presented by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) North East. The contractor was Hall Construction Services, working alongside WSP Group and Royal Haskoning for PD Ports. The judges congratulated the project team ... [+]

Getting their kicks on Route A66

A total of 66 PD Ports employees in Middlesbrough will be taking part in the  Great North Run for Butterwick Hospice this year. The run which takes place on Sunday 16 September and hoping to raise in the region of £20,000 for the local hospice. Mandy Shields, fundraiser at the hospice ... [+]

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