Thames Freeport - Britain's Trading Future

[ 12 ] That symbiotic relationship between London and Tilbury has created the UK’s fast-growing maritime cluster. Spread over a 1,100-acre estate, the port is home to a range of businesses, service providers and innovators who are leaders in their field. The port’s diversity of cargoes and businesses, alongside its sheer scale, allows it to support the delivery of nationally significant infrastructure projects such as the construction of HS2 and the replenishing of supermarket shelves to ensure that raw materials and components are supplied to the many complex manufacturers and high-value processing facilities along the Thames corridor, from Tate & Lyle to Procter & Gamble. The scale of the operations allows for continuous skills development through knowledge transfer programmes, specialist onsite training facilities and extensive partnerships with further and higher education institutions predominantly housed in the Logistics Academy East of England. With a strategic focus on cleaner, greener and leaner solutions, the port’s teams work with customers and their supply chains to ensure the delivery of Port of Tilbury’s vision. Green logistics is a combination of harnessing the potential of technology and renewable energy power generation, while promoting port-centric logistics with a focus on the circular economy, through a truly multi-modal platform. Being the closest multi-purpose port to the largest consumer market P O R T O F T I L B U RY The Port of Tilbury — and the thriving logistics community that surrounds it — is the beating heart of London and the south east of England’s industrial cluster. As London and the south east grows, so does Tilbury. Multiple and specialist direct connections to the national strategic road and rail networks and barge loading capacity, help provide a suite of options for customers as the port looks to reshape urban logistics and decarbonise supply chains London Container Terminal and Tilbury2 — at the heart of a network of European and global connections