Middlesbrough have their offices in the town. Teesport is from the North Sea and east of Middlesbrough, on the River Tees. Teesport is currently the third largest port in the United Kingdom, and amongst the tenth biggest in Western Europe, handling about 50 million tonnes of domestic and international cargo per year. The vast majority of these products are still related to the steel and chemical industries made by companies that are members of NEPIC. NEPIC is an industry led economic cluster body that promotes the development and growth of the chemistry based process industries around the Tees Valley and the
Middlesbrough 2013, Middlesbrough was used as a stand in for Newcastle 1969 in BBC's "Inspector George Gently" starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby; the footage appeared in the episode "Gently Between The Lines" (episode 1 of series 6). Reference is also made to Middlesbrough in works by London author Paul Breen including a work of fiction entitled "The Bones of a Season". In 2010, filmmaker John Walsh made the satirical documentary "ToryBoy The Movie" about the 2010 general election in the Middlesbrough constituency and sitting MP Stuart Bell's alleged laziness as an MP. Captain James Cook (1728–79) the world-famous explorer, navigator,