Which is the largest container port in the UK?
Port of London number of containers, London currently ranks third in the UK after the ports of Southampton and Felixstowe. This is likely to change in future as a major new facility at the Shell Haven refinery site - DP World's "London Gateway" - is under construction. Government approval was given in May 2007 for the redevelopment of this brownfield site, which has a two-mile (3 km) river frontage. The developers plan a port capable of handling the largest deep-sea container ships, including a 2,300 metre long container quay with a capacity of 3.5 million standard container units a year. The development will
Container port Container port A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal is described as a "maritime container port". Alternatively the transshipment may be between land vehicles, typically between train and truck, in which case the terminal is described as an "inland container port". In November 1932 in Enola the first inland container port in the world was opened by PRR Pennsylvania Railroad company Port Newark-Elizabeth on the Newark