Presentation by Philip Coombes, Commercial Manager, Associated British Ports (ABP) Hull & Goole. Delivered to ITS Masters students: www.its.leeds.ac.uk/courses/masters/itslectureseries/

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Associated British Ports
Keeping Britain Trading
Philip Coombes, Commercial Manager, ABP Hull & Goole

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ABP Overview
Troon
Ayr
Silloth
Barrow
Fleetwood
Garston
Newport
Cardiff
Swansea
Port Talbot
Barry
Teignmouth
Plymouth
Southampton
Ipswich
Lowestoft
King’s Lynn
Grimsby
Immingham
Hull
Goole
Humber
Southampton
South Wales Ports
Shortsea Ports
ABP Port Groups:
 Number 1 port company in UK – 120 million
tonnes of cargo in 2013 (24% of UK’s
seaborne trade) generating >£500m revenue
 Owned by long-term, infrastructure investors –
Goldman Sachs, Prudential, Borealis, GIC
 21 ports handling every conceivable type of
cargo and generating 25% of UK’s rail freight
 Planned investment of >£837m over next 5
years, with potential to generate up to £1.75bn in
Gross Value Added (GVA) for UK economy each
year
 Full range of facilities accommodating needs of
major sectors - energy, cruise, containers,
agribulks, automotive, forest products and steel
 Dedicated, committed industry experts providing
world-leading solutions and managing
operations Subsidiaries include the Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal, environmental consultancy ABPmer,
UK Dredging and four marinas (2 of which have been awarded 4 Gold Anchors rating by TYHA)
Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal
ABP Rail Terminals:

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ABP’s Contribution to the Economy
 Contributes £5.6bn GVA to UK each year
 Supports 84,000 jobs
 Critical component of supply chain for industry
e.g. energy, construction, agriculture, food &
drink, automotive
 >£2m contribution to charity over last 5yrs
ABP Humber
makes up
1.65%of regional GVA
ABP South Wales
makes up
2.10%of regional GVA
Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary of State for Energy visiting ABP Hull after Siemens’ announcement

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Energy – Biomass
 ABP operator of world’s largest biomass-handling facility - Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal
(IRFT) - due to start operations Q4 2014 with initial 3mt p.a. throughput
 Panamax-sized bulk carriers discharged via 1.2km of conveyors and 2 continuous ship unloaders at rate of
2,500t per hour
 200k tonnes of storage in 8 silos linked to new Immingham rail facility, with Hull and Goole providing
additional capacity
 Drax (supplies 8% of UK’s electricity) will become one of largest renewable energy generators in Europe

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Energy – Bulk Fuels
Coal
No.1 in coal sector - 42% of UK market
Immingham’s highly automated and efficient coal import
facility (Humber International Terminal - HIT) handles 17mt
p.a., over double its closest port competitor
Also significant volumes at Hull and South Wales’ ports
Customer examples: Drax, SSE, E.ON, EDF, GDF Suez,
Hargreaves, Tata Steel
Gas/Other Bulk Fuels
ABP proposal to build £36m Immingham Western
Deepwater Jetty (IWDJ) for liquid bulks such as LNG, LPG
and aviation fuel
IWDJ site will enable import of liquid bulks for onward
distribution via nationally significant Government Pipeline
and Storage System (GPSS), thus protecting vital energy
supplies
Coal being discharged into hopper at HIT

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Energy – Liquid Bulk Fuels
Oil
30% of UK’s fuel produced from crude oil imported at ABP’s Immingham Oil Terminal (IOT)
IOT throughput of 20mt p.a. and tanker capacity up to 280,000 DWT
Immingham customer examples: Phillips 66*, Total, Simon Storage
* Refining division of ConocoPhillips
** IOT also has 2 finger berths for coasters and 2 finger berths for barges
Oil tanker at Immingham Oil Terminal
IOT Main Berth Capacities**
Main
Berths
Max
DWT
Max
Draft (m)
1 & 2 280,000 14
3 80,000 12.8

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Energy – Wave, Tidal, Solar
 Wave, tidal and solar initiatives through customer projects/prototypes and embedded generation
within ABP ports
 Swansea Tidal Lagoon (320MW) proposed for Severn Estuary – 2nd
highest tidal range globally. Would be
world’s first artificial, energy-generating lagoon - connected to UK’s National Grid electricity transmission
system and providing major employment and economic benefits for Wales
 Highly skilled and experienced specialists at environmental consultant subsidiary ABPmer offer complete
range of services supporting ABP and wider port, marine and energy industries
 ABP’s extensive in-house capability for planning process, EIAs (Environmental Impact Assessments),
compliance with legislation (e.g. Habitats Directive), stakeholder and community engagement
Image of proposed visitor centre for Swansea Tidal Lagoon

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Energy – Offshore Wind/Green Port Hull
 No.1 in offshore wind
 Green Port Hull (GPH) UK’s first offshore wind turbine construction, assembly and service facility -
£310m investment by ABP and leading turbine manufacturer Siemens
 Designed to service proposed R3 offshore wind farms zones (3 largest zones all within 12 hours
sailing time from Hull) and European projects
 Preparatory works on site with blade production commencing mid-2016 and site fully operational
mid-2017
 GPH huge boost to UK’s offshore wind ambitions, and also expected to create up to 1,000 direct
jobs, plus significant additional jobs during construction and indirectly through wider supply chain
Image of original Green Port Hull project

9. Installation near Barrow Port for Walney Offshore Wind Farm
Energy – Offshore Wind/Construction, Installation, O&M
 No.1 in O&M
 Extensive sector knowledge and experience through successful development of R1 & R2
offshore wind farms, especially Barrow and Lowestoft
 Grimsby’s excellent location, reputation and experience has seen it develop into UK’s
leading hub for offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M)
 Customers examples: Centrica, DONG Energy, E.ON, Vattenfall, Scottish Power
Renewables, RWE, RES
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Agribulks
 No.1 in agricultural products - 34% of UK market
 Widest range of agribulk facilities in UK, from deep sea to short sea
 15 of ABP’s 21 ports involved in sector
 Over 150,000 sq ft of new warehousing at short sea ports to handle growing demand for agribulks
 GAFTA and COMAH approved warehousing
 ABP also able to offer value-added services e.g. bagging
 Customer examples: Arkady, Rank Hovis, Carrs, Frontier Agriculture, Origin Fertilisers, Cefetra,
Openfield, Yara, Gleadell, Feed Factors
Frontier grain vessel being unloaded at Hull

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Cruise
 No.1 cruise turnaround port in Europe at
Southampton
 80% Southampton share of UK turnaround
market, with 1.7m passengers welcomed to
the port in 2013
 Turnaround (where passengers start or end
their journey) has the most significant local
economic benefits
 No.4 cruise port in Europe including port of
call passengers
P&O fleet of 7 cruise ships arriving at Southampton Port
(Oceana/Adonia/Azura/Oriana/Aurora/Arcadia/Ventura)

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Cruise
 Cruise sector in Southampton generates >3,500 jobs in regional economy* and each
cruise ship visit injects £2.5m into local, regional and national economies
 Gateway to some of top UK tourist attractions and benefits from deep water, sheltered location,
excellent transport links, proximity to main international cruise routes and 4 dedicated cruise
terminals
 £27m upgrade to 4 cruise terminals to accommodate largest ever built cruise ships e.g. P&O
Cruises’ Britannia (3,600 passengers) and RCCL’s Anthem of the Seas (4,200 passengers)
 Customer examples: Carnival**, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (RCCL), Fred Olsen, Saga, MSC
* Including Carnival HQ, passenger and crew expenditure pre-boarding and post-disembarkation and supply chain impacts into goods and services procured to support the cruises
** Carnival’s brands include P&O, Cunard, Princess, Aida, Seabourne, Costa, Holland America and Carnival
Ocean Terminal, Southampton

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Containers
 No.2 in containers - 22% share of UK market, supporting 15,000 jobs and
contributing £1bn to economy each year
 No.1 UK container terminal for productivity (No.3 in Europe)*
 1.5m TEU at Southampton Container Terminal (JV with DP World) - mainly deep sea traffic
on Far East-North Europe trade routes
 ABP’s investment in new £150m, deeper, longer berth at Southampton (SCT5)
accommodating 18,000 TEU+ vessels
 40% of containers at Southampton transported to/from port by rail
 Hull Container Terminal services Samskip – leading multimodal, intra-European logistics
company
 Immingham Container Terminal a common-user facility for intra-European shipping lines
and companies operating feeder services for deep sea shipping lines
 Customer examples: CMA CGM, G6 Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd, NYK, OOCL, APL, HMM,
MOL)
* Journal of Commerce (JOC) Port Productivity Rankings, July 2014

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Sustainable Development
 ABPmer has >60 years marine environmental research and consultancy experience,
including facilitating the successful design and operation of ports, harbours and marinas
 ABP’s ports actively manage their environment – 80% of our waste recycled or recovered in
2013, and 40% of our electricity sourced from green supplies
 ABP also creates green energy to power operations, such as solar panels on warehouses and
offices and wind turbines on the port estate
 ABP protects the local environment, for example we own the land on which the 122 acre RSPB
Blacktoft Sands nature reserve is located within the Humber Estuary Site of Special Scientific
Interest (SSSI) and have worked closely with the charity to ensure its success
One of 270 bird species found at Blacktoft Sands, near GooleIntertidal habitat scheme at Chichester Harbour created by ABP in 2013 to
compensate for extensive dredging in Southampton Water and the Solent
Cobnor Point
Blacktoft Sands

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Port Regeneration
Ipswich Marina
Cardiff Bay

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The Humber is the UK’s major trading gateway
 Busiest in the UK by tonnage and the fifth busiest in
Europe
 Humber Ports:
 Largest automotive logistic complex in UK
 1/3 of all coal imports generating 17% of the UK’s
energy
 25% of all UK rail freight generated at Port of
Immingham
 25% of all steel imports and exports
 25% of all forest products
 Nearly 1 million passengers
 Nearly 30% of all UK fuel refined on the Humber
 Centre for Bio-fuel production in the UK

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The Humber UK’s Energy Estuary:
Alexandra Dock Today

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The Humber UK’s Energy Estuary:
Alexandra Dock early 2017

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Green Port Hull
 Adjacent to a natural deep water channel
 130 acres (54ha) site
 Turbine assembly facility and service base
 Rotor blade manufacturing
 Linked to existing port facilities in King George and Queen Elizabeth
Docks
 £310m investment by ABP and Siemens
 Fully operational from 2017

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The Humber UK’s Energy Estuary:
GPH supply chain industrial cluster at Paull
 Developing a competitive and
innovative supply chain
 Delivering economic growth and
jobs
 Generating UK exports
 Priority sub sectors
 Towers
 Foundations
 Cable laying
 Substations
 Developers need to
demonstrate UK content

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Humber Ports Supports Key UK Industrial Sectors:
Chemical Processing and Supply Chain

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Humber Ports Supports Key UK Industrial Sectors:
Fuel Supply

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Humber Estuary Services
 Spurn to Gainsborough on Trent and above
Goole on Ouse
 Manages over 30,000 vessel movements plus
oil barge traffic
 Harbour Master Humber
 oversee the safety of all activities within the
harbour area
 wide ranging statutory powers
 Team of 200 provide Pilotage and
Hydrographic services

24. Thank you and Questions?