Solent Stevedores to open new empty container yard at DP World London Gateway
A new off-dock empty container storage yard is to be opened at DP World London Gateway Port. The five acre yard will be operated and managed by Solent Stevedores, an award-winning stevedoring company with a broad range of bulk and general cargo handling and storage services at ports in Southampton, Jersey, Immingham and London.
The facility will be located on Berth 7, outside of the terminal’s ISPS perimeter but adjacent to the port’s main gate. A number of associated container services will also be offered by Solent Stevedores from the site. Work to develop the yard will commence next month, with it then due to become operational by the first quarter of 2018.
The announcement of further investment in the UK’s most sophisticated logistics hub comes just as the first THE Alliance vessels, operating on Asia-Europe and transatlantic routes, begin calling at the port. This complements the continued expansion of the Logistics Park, with Lidl starting operations out of the London Gateway Logistics Centre from April and work on UPS’s 345,000 sq ft parcel sorting hub is progressing on schedule, with the centre set to go live in the fourth quarter of 2017.
