Port of Tilbury’s Police Constable Adam Webb receives Royal Humane Society Award

Port of Tilbury’s Police Constable Adam Webb receives Royal Humane Society Award

Laura MenendezGeneral News, Port of Tilbury

Police Constable Adam Webb, from the Port of Tilbury Police, has this month received the Royal Humane Society’s Resuscitation Award for the heroic assistance he provided, while he was off duty, at a serious road traffic collision in Essex in November. On 25th November 2022, while he was off duty, PC Webb came across a very serious road traffic collision …

Grangemouth exports Scottish potatoes

Bumper ‘Tattie’ Season for Scotland’s largest container terminal

Laura MenendezForth Ports

The Port of Grangemouth exports 65,000 tonnes of Scottish seed potatoes around the world. The Port of Grangemouth, Scotland’s largest freight hub, has delivered a bumper ‘tattie’ season with 65,000 tonnes of seed potato exported around the world from Grangemouth. The busy container terminal grew annual volumes with 150,000 containers moving through the port in 2022. October and November are …

12 New Kalmar straddle carriers go into service in Grangemouth and Tilbury.

Dylan MacdonaldGeneral News

Forth Ports’ busy container ports in Grangemouth and Tilbury welcomed 12 new Kalmar straddle carriers go into service this week as part of a multimillion-pound investment in equipment for the Group’s key container terminals. The new low emission Kalmar straddle carriers were shipped from Kalmar’s facility in Poland aboard the specialist vessel the MV Aura which delivered five to the …

New Grangemouth container route launches with CMA CGM and Containerships as demand increases for a Scottish express service into Europe

Dylan MacdonaldForth Ports, Port of Grangemouth

The arrival of the Skylight container vessel into Scotland’s key strategic freight hub at The Port of Grangemouth marks the maiden call of a new Scottish Express (SCX) service secured with the CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, and its subsidiary, Containerships, the leader in intra-European multimodal transport.