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Felixstowe Port
COUNTRY:
UNITED
KINGDOM
LOCATION:
FELIXSTOWE

The Port of
Felixstowe, in
Felixstowe, Suffolk
is the United
Kingdom's busiest
container port,
dealing with 42%
of Britain's
containerised

In 2011, it was
ranked as the
35th busiest
container port in
the world and
Europe's sixth
busiest.

The port handled

3.74 million
twenty-foot
equivalent units
(TEU) of traffic in
2011.

Felixstowe Port
The port is operated by the
Felixstowe Dock and Railway
Company

Type :
Container
port

Size: 3,383
ha (8,360
acres)

In 1967, it set
up Britain's first
container
terminal for
3.5m in a deal
with Sea-Land
Service.

Felixstowe is
owned by
Hutchison Port
Holdings (HPH)
Group.

The port has

always been
privately owned.

Tuesday 20 October 2015

The world's
largest ship,
with a
massive cargo
has arrived in
Britain.

World's largest container ship

arrives at the Port of Felixstowe

The Chinese-owned Globe

CSCL , Which is longer than
The Shard is tall, left Shanghai
On Its maiden voyage on
December 8 carrying 19,100
containers.
Four thousand of the
containers - with a total
of 57,000 tons of cargo
of food, drink, clothing,
electrical goods and
furniture - are being
unloaded at Felixstowe in
Suffolk.

The CSCL Globe arrives on her first visit to

the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.

Some Benefics
- A third rail
terminal.
- Two rail terminals, with 56
trains in and out per day.
- Short Marine operations
using the port to connect
countries from Portugal to
Finland, Russia and the
Baticano and Africa across
the Mediterranean to the
Middle East and the black
Sea.
- All continents uses
deepwater services calling
at Felixstowe.

The port handles more than 3.7 million

TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units)
and Welcomes over 3,000 ships each
year, Including the largest container
vessels afloat today

The port Provides some of the

deepest water close to the open
sea of any European port .

Around 30 shipping lines operate from

Felixstowe, approximately 90 Offering
services to and from 400 ports around
the world.

Together With its

unrivaled rail and
road links
connecting the port
to distribution hubs
in the Midlands and
elsewhere in the
UK, Felixstowe
plays a pivotal role
in keeping the UK's
trade moving, and
delivers true
benefits to
customers, the
community and the
industry.

In 1951, Gordon Parker, an

agricultural merchant, bought the
Felixstowe Dock & Railway Company,
which at the time was handling only
grain and coal

In 1976, Felixstowe was bought by

European Ferries.
In June 1991, P&O sold Felixstowe
to Hutchison Whampoa of Hong
Kong.
In June 1994, Hutchison Whampoa's
Hutchison International Port Holdings
bought out Orient Overseas
International's 25% stake in
Felixstowe.

Felixstowe Port
The port has its
own Port of
Felixstowe
Police, fire, and
ambulance
services.
There is a
The port has
continuous
two main
quay of over
container
2.3 kilometres
terminals,
(1.4 mi),
Trinity and
Landguard as equipped with
29 ship-to
well as a ROshore gantry
RO terminal.
cranes.

Felixstowe Port
The main navigation channel
is dredged to 14.5 metres
below chart datum, with a
maximum depth of 15
metres alongside the quay.
This allows Felixstowe to
accommodate the world's
latest generation of deepdraughted post-Panamax
vessels

FELIXSTOWE PORT
The Port of Felixstowe has been at the forefront of the
container industry for over 40 years and the opening of Berths
8&9 in 2011 and its further development will secure the
position long into the future.
Berths 8&9 is the only port in the UK to
have handled the 18,000 TEU vessel, The
Majestic Maersk, one of the worlds latest
Mega Vessels. The largest container ships
currently on order have a capacity of 19,000
TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units), and
are longer and wider than anything that has
gone before. Failure to provide facilities for
these class of vessels would mean that the
worlds most efficient ships could not call in
the UK, driving up the cost of imports and
making UK exports less competitive.

FELIXSTOWE PORT PREPARED FOR THE

FUTURE

In Phase 1 of the development,

Berths 8&9 have already been
equipped with the largest shipto-shore cranes of their type
anywhere in the world. With an
outreach of 62 metres, they
are capable of handling
container ships with 24
containers wide on deck. Each
crane weighs approximately
2,000 tonnes and is able to lift
two containers simultaneously,
up to a total of 70 tonnes.

The terminal is also equipped

with 22 rubber-tyred gantry
cranes (RTGs). Designed to the
latest standards, these eco
RTGs have significantly lower
emission levels and use up to
40% less fuel than standard
machines, helping to make
Berths 8&9 the lowest-carbon
container terminal in the UK.

The container storage

yard for the new facility
has also been enlarged
by the reclamation of 28
hectares of riverbed and,
in Phase 1, has a
capacity of 24,000 TEU.

SIMULTANEOUS HANDLING OF MEGA VESSELS

When complete, Berths

8&9 will provide 1,285
metres of quay, and with
a
depth
of
water
alongside of 18 metres
below chart datum, it is
designed to allow the
docking and processing
of multiple Mega Vessels
simultaneously. The first
phase, opened in 2011,
consists of 730 metres of
quay, initially dredged to
16
metres
depth

enough to handle all

FELIXSTOWE
PORT
The economys ability
to secure future
growth will only be
possible if the UK has
the necessary
infrastructure. Berths
8&9 ensure the
country has the right
port capacity to enable
this growth.

RO-RO OPERATIONS
DOOLEY TERMINAL
Ro-Ro cargo operations continue to
form an integral part of the daily
activities at the Port of Felixstowe.

These activities are centred on Dooley Terminals berths 3 & 4, which provide
common-user Ro-Ro capacity with lock-free access, rapid mooring/un-mooring,
700 trailer parking slots, and secure ISPS-compliant terminal facilities including
a high specification surfacing and security fencing, and sophisticated camera
systems for the recording of cargo condition through the gatehouse complex.