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The P&O Ferries' brand new freight ferry the mv Bore Song will significantly expand capacity on the service.
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13th September 2011 - The P&O Ferries' brand new freight ferry the mv Bore Song which sailed into Teesport yesterday will significantly expand capacity on the service. The Bore RoFlex class ship, chartered by P & O from the Finnish ferry company Bore Ltd, represents the latest generation of ro-ro vessels due to its flexible carrying capacity, fuel efficiency and reduced emissions of its single common rail engine.
The freight-only Bore Song, operating on the six times a week Teesport - Zeebrugge service since it sailed from the Belgian port yesterday, has significantly more carrying capacity than the Norstream, the ship it is replacing on the service.
"We are pleased that P&O Ferries is investing in this service as we are seeing growth in both accompanied and unaccompanied freight," says Bill McGowan, Ferry Terminal Manager, PD Ports, which owns Teesport. "It shows that demand for the services we offer through Teesport continues to expand."
The vessel has a total of 2,863m lane metres and, with the main deck 7.4m high, a significant proportion of containers can be double-stacked. There are fixed decks and hoistable car decks which have the capacity to carry a mix of about 250 freight units double-stacked plus 200 cars. P&O Ferries, which has been operating out of Teesport for 22 years, also operates a service between Teesport and Rotterdam three times a week.
Andy Faichney, Customer Operations Support Manager, of P&O Ferries says: "The Bore Song is perfectly suited to our Teesport - Zeebrugge service operation and provides us with greater capacity and the flexibility to accept the complex mix of container and ro-ro traffic on this route with ease. We will continue to work closely with PD Ports to ensure our customers receive exactly the service they need."
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About PD Ports:
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 $100 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 1200 members of staff, and generates an annual turnover of over £115 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 4 UK ports, with flows of containers, bulk traffics and finished cars, handling almost 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, recycling and distribution services at UK locations throughout the North East, Humberside & East Anglia, including at Felixstowe. Development plans for port operations include: The Northern Gateway Container Terminal: a major new deep sea container terminal planned at Teesport on the South side of the River Tees. The £300+ million development will have a capacity of 1.5 million TEU (twenty foot equivalent unit) and is anticipated to deliver over 5,500 jobs to the Tees Valley, when fully operational. Circa 1,300 of the 5,500 new jobs have already been created through portcentric logistics operations in the past four years.
Portcentric Logistics: a concept promoted by PD Ports for locating the storage and distribution of imported goods close to the point of arrival at a UK port. This concept avoids the slow handling and return of empty containers as well as eradicating unnecessary UK road mileage, which occurs when delivering to a traditional inland import centre, such as in the Midlands. In 2006 ASDA WalMart opened a 360,000 sq ft import centre at Teesport and has saved more than 8 million road miles by adopting the portcentric concept. Adjacent to the ASDA facility, Tesco operates a purpose built 1.2 million sq ft import centre at Teesport, which opened in 2009. Tea and coffee specialists Taylors of Harrogate opened a purpose built warehouse facility at Teesport Commerce Park on the periphery of Teesport in 2010 to handle its UK imports.
Conservancy - this includes: Management of river traffic for the ports of Tees and Hartlepool, ensuring safe navigation and maintaining the required channel depth. Property- this includes: Revenue and income from property and facilities owned by PD Ports and used by third party clients on long term leases. Land that is not utilised for operational purposes and offers potential for development. Port land at Hartlepool docks, which is highly attractive to the growing renewable energy sector, including offshore, windfarms, and biomass plants. PD Ports' long term strategy is to further develop Hartlepool docks as a centre of excellence for the offshore support section
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