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Tilbury container port gets go-ahead
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ABOUT 7,000 ft. of quay length for berths designed to take container ships will be an important part of the £18.5m. dock development scheme at Tilbury approved by the Minister of Transport this week. The container and unitized cargo dock is already being built to the second stage planned by the Port of London Authority and the new approval will enable it to be extended to a planned stage three.
Also included in the scheme is a £31n, grain terminal, while actual dock development at Tilbury itself will provide nearly two miles of deep-water berths. The new dock for container traffic will be provided with some 20 acres of space per berth as a marshalling area.
The decision, coming only a week after the Ministry's detailed reasons for turning down the Portbury scheme at Bristol, reinforces the backing being given to the PLA's plans to turn Tilbury into a major container port. Also, PLA and British Railways have announced that they are to construct a Freightliner depot within Tilbury docks.
The grain terminal, announced earlier this year, will have a maximum discharge rate of 2,000 tons an hour and will have facilities for road and rail transfer.