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Work starts on fourth berth for London Gateway

[ October 10, 2022   //   ]

DP World has started work a new fourth berth at London Gateway. The £350m project is due for completion in 2024 it will increase capacity by a third, giving it more room to handle the world’s largest vessels than any other port in the country, says the Dubai-based company.

DP World UK chief executive, Ernst Schulze, said: “The construction of the new fourth berth is creating 1,000 jobs and London Gateway’s rapidly growing logistics park will employ 12,000 people when it is completed in five years’ time. Our investment is a catalyst for the regeneration of one of the most deprived areas in the UK, which is currently in the top decile of deprivation.”

DP World announced in July that London Gateway handled more than one million TEU in six months between January and June. When factoring in throughput at Southampton this performance contributed to a record volume of cargo in the first half of the year for DP World’s ports in the UK, with a combined total of 1,937,000TEU.

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