Containers

Immingham is the busiest ferry port on the UK’s East Coast and its two in-dock ro-ro terminals – DFDS Tor Line’s Nordic Terminal and ABP Exxtor Terminal – expertly handle large quantities of dry containers and tank containers. Significant volumes of fresh and frozen fish are also transported directly from Iceland on specialist lo-lo carriers, and Immingham is now a regional centre for deep-sea container imports. This enables customers to avoid heavily congested roads and rail networks in the south of England by transhipping deep-sea containers direct to Immingham on regular short-sea feeder vessels. Feeder operators call at the port several times a week, moving containers between Immingham and the main European deep-sea container hubs.

Dry Bulks

Immingham is the UK’s largest dry bulk-handling port. Cargoes, such as coal, ilmenite, petroleum coke, titanium slag, ferrous alloys, pig iron and pyrites, are regularly handled at the port’s in-dock and deep-water riverside facilities. Large quantities of dry bulk and liquid cargoes are also imported through the port.The port is a major handler of animal-feed and agribulk imports, and its proximity to the main European shipping routes means it is also a hub port for the UK’s deep-sea grain traffic. In 2007, ABP signed a 20-year agreement with long-standing customer Gleadell Agriculture Ltd. ABP invested £3.26m in the construction of a dedicated agribulks-storage facility to accommodate growing shipments of imported grain products in purpose-built dockside grain storage, and to provide transit storage for export products. The port also handles animal feed for Cefetra, one of the UK’s largest animal-feed importers.

Immingham Bulk Park offers a range of value-added services, including specialist warehousing, bagging, blending, ’rip-and-tip’ and sales administration for independent importers of bulk and break-bulk cargoes of agribulks. ABP has recently invested £3.2m in Immingham Bulk Park, extending the terminal to provide a total of 20,000 sq m of warehousing; implementing a new electronic terminal management system, and increasing plant equipment.

The Yara UK Ltd complex at Immingham is a bagging and distribution facility, which is operated by ABP on behalf of Yara UK. PB Kent & Company Ltd, part of the IAWS Group, operates a 2.2-ha site at the port, blending and bagging imported products for the horticultural and retail trades. Building on their success, IAWS expanded its presence at the port during 2006 with a second complex.

Forest Products

Immingham is the UK port of entry for several forest-products companies, which import vast quantities of these products on regular services from Northern Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic states.

Several leading timber-terminal operators are now established at the port, offering extensive open and covered storage, timber-treatment facilities and specialist cargo-handling equipment. Rowlinson Timber operates a specialist terminal and timber-treatment facility at Immingham and Humber Timber Terminals – which has been importing timber through a dedicated facility at Immingham since 2003 – continues to expand its operations at the port to accommodate growth in volumes.

A dedicated import-service centre has been developed for Stora Enso Timber for the company’s solid-wood imports. The terminal comprises warehouses and covered and outside storage areas to handle forest products from the Nordic, Baltic and central European countries.

Fresh Produce & Perishables

Immingham is handling ever-increasing volumes of fresh fruit and vegetables and, while current imports are solely from the Mediterranean, the port is looking to expand this traffic with imports from Cuba, Egypt, South America and Cyprus. Large volumes of frozen fish are also handled at the port.

General Cargo

As the UK’s most productive port for general-cargo traffic, Immingham handles a wide range of general-cargo liner services. The port also caters for heavy-lift and out-of-gauge cargoes, supported by a range of purpose-built equipment, services and distribution options.

Liquid Bulks

Immingham serves as a major hub of the UK’s oil and petrochemical industries, with around 20 per cent of the country’s oil-refining capacity concentrated near the port estate. One of the UK’s premier liquid-bulk ports, it has four specialist liquid-bulk terminals. Immingham is also home to Simon Storage, the UK’s largest and most comprehensive independently owned petrochemical-storage facility, which has over 260 storage tanks.

Ro-Ro

Ro-ro is a major business at Immingham, and the port handles a large number of sailings each week to Northern Europe and Scandinavia. Ro-ro facilities were expanded in 2006 when ABP invested £27.5m in the new DFDS Nordic Terminal Riverside at Immingham Outer Harbour, constructed following the signing of a long-term agreement with DFDS Tor Line, the Danish ro-ro shipping line. This 21-ha ro-ro terminal has three berths on the River Humber outside Immingham Lock, and is the ro-ro terminal closest to the busy North Sea shipping lanes on the Humber.

Current in-dock facilities include two four-berth terminals capable of handling up to eight vessels simultaneously, depending upon vessel size. Both terminals are equipped with high-quality handling equipment and have extensive storage and reception areas. Imports and exports of vehicles are handled at Immingham in ever-increasing volumes through both of its unit-load terminals. Freshney Cargo Services’ Immingham Terminal – home to Sea-Cargo’s thrice-weekly general-cargo, ro-ro and container services from Norway – comprises a 6,000 sq m warehouse, outside storage areas and access to rail-loading facilities.

Minerals & Ores

In addition to the specialised river facilities, considerable volumes of minerals and ores are handled at the port’s Commercial Quays.

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