Port of Felixstowe

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Landguard Terminal in the foreground with Trinity Terminal in the background

The Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk is the UK's busiest container port, dealing with 35% of the country's container cargo^{[citation needed]}. In 2005, it was ranked as the 29th busiest container port in the world^[1] and Europe's sixth busiest.^[2] The port handled 3.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of traffic in 2007, a ten percent increase on 2006.^[2]

1 Terminals
2 Transport connections
3 Ownership
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Terminals

The port has two main container terminals, Trinity and Landguard as well as a RO-RO terminal, Dooley.

The main navigation channel is dredged to 14.5 metres below Chart Datum, with a maximum depth of 15 metres^{[citation needed]} alongside the quay, Felixstowe boasts deep-water able to accommodate the world’s latest generation of deep-draughted post-Panamax vessels. There is a continuous quay of over 2.3km, equipped with 25 ship-to shore gantry cranes.

[edit] Transport connections

The A14 starts at the port, giving good connections with the Midlands, and also to London (via the A12) and the North (via the A1).

Each terminal has its own rail terminal which connects to the currently single track Felixstowe Branch Line

[edit] Ownership

The port is owned by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd^[3] but much of the land on which it sits is owned by Trinity College, Cambridge.

The port has its own Police Force.

[edit] References

^ World Port Rankings 2005. American Association of Port Authorities (May 2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
^ ^a ^b Van Marle, Gavin. "Europe Terminals stretched to limit", Lloyds List Daily Commercial News, 2008-01-31, pp. 8-9.
^ Port of Felixstowe. Brief History.