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PD Ports Reaches Significant New Container Handling Milestone |
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 |
 In November, PD Ports reached a major new milestone. For the very first time Teesport handled over 100,000 containers in a year. This is the highest volume of containers ever recorded at Teesport on the North East coast in any calendar year.
Frans Calje, PD Ports’ managing director, unitised, said: “We are
delighted that in these difficult economic times our efforts have
clearly out-performed the market. We are really proud of what has been
achieved at Teesport this year. We expect to reach this benchmark
earlier each year as we move forward.”
PD Ports Limited is owned by Canadian based Brookfield. Brookfield is
a global asset manager focused on property, renewable power and
infrastructure assets, with over $90 billion of assets under
management. PD Ports was bought by Brookfield in November 2009.
PD Ports is a high performing specialist ports business offering a wide
variety of supply chain services to improve customers’ international
product and material movements into and out of – as well as within –
the UK.
PD Ports employs over 1140 members of staff, and generates an annual turnover of over £120 million from many UK locations.
PD Ports operates throughout the UK from bases at many key ports and logistics centres.
The 3 business interests of PD Ports are:
Port Operations– is split into two business streams – bulks and unitised and includes:
Teesport: one of the top 3 UK ports, with flows of containers, bulk
traffics and finished cars, handling over 40 million tonnes of
throughput p.a.
Humber & Small Ports: owners and/or operators of ports on the
Humber estuary, Rivers Trent and Ouse, and at Medina Wharf, Isle of
Wight. Service offerings include ships’ agency, chartering and
stevedoring services.
Logistics: PD Logistics offers warehousing and distribution services at
UK locations throughout the North East, Humberside & East Anglia,
including at Felixstowe.
Source: PD Ports
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