Containers

Cliff Quay Container Terminal is equipped with a 40-tonne capacity crane and rail-mounted gantries, each with a 35.6-tonne capacity. Container lines can also take advantage of adjacent warehousing for distribution services.

Dry bulks

Ipswich is ideally placed to serve East Anglia, the UK’s agricultural heartland, and is supported by excellent transport links connecting it to a wide hinterland. The port handles over one million tonnes of agribulk cargoes every year, including cereals, animal feedstuffs and pulses. Cargoes of aggregates, coal and cement are also handled.

Forest products

Ipswich has, over many years, developed considerable expertise in handling forest products, including board products, carcassing, pallet boards, fencing materials, logs, kiln-dried timber and battens.

General cargo

Ipswich has considerable experience of handling bagged cargoes, steel, palletised cargoes, heavy lifts/project cargoes, paper on reels, container groupage, crates, cases, etc.

Liquid bulks

Ipswich offers a liquid-bulk terminal, operated by Vopak, with capacity for 89,000 cu m of oil and chemical products. The terminal is fed from four berths, across each of which up to four products may be handled simultaneously at rates of up to 400 tonnes per hour. The terminal is able to offer storage in stainless steel-lined and carbon-steel tanks. A full range of services is available, such as blending, heating, drumming, administrative documentation and independently operated laboratory facilities.

Ro-ro

The port's ro-ro terminal is located at West Bank Terminal, and benefits from direct access to the UK's rail infrastructure. Ferryways operates a ferry service offering 16 sailing per week to Ostend in Belgium and reefer facilities are available at the berth.

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