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PORT OF TYNE COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR APPOINTED AS CHAIR OF CRUISE BRITAIN
12th January 2022
Cruise Britain has appointed Port of Tyne’s commercial director for cruise, Kate O’Hara, as its new chair from January 2022.
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PORT OF TYNE WELCOMES FIRST CONTAINER SHIP ARRIVING DIRECT FROM CHINA
10th January 2022
Marking a first for the Port of Tyne, the first ever container shipment of goods coming directly from China into the UK has docked and been efficiently unloaded in South Shields.
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PORT OF TYNE SUPPORTS HISTORIC VICTORIA TUNNEL WITH AUDIO UPGRADE
14th December 2021
A historic Tyneside tourist attraction is getting an audio upgrade with a grant from the Port of Tyne Community Action Fund at the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland.
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Ground officially broken on Operations and Maintenance Base for world’s biggest offshore wind farm
22nd November 2021
Dogger Bank Wind Farm was delighted to mark the official ground-breaking for its net zero carbon Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Base at the Port of Tyne.
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Port of Tyne sign up to Glasgow Declaration of Sustainable Bioenergy
10th November 2021
A new Glasgow Declaration on Sustainable Bioenergy sets out how wood-based bioenergy can help tackle climate change, with a world-wide industry standard for sustainability at its core.
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PORT OF TYNE WINS SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AWARD
4th November 2021
Port of Tyne wins Sustainable Supply Chain Management Award at the Seatrade Awards
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MORE ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOLADES FOR THE PORT OF TYNE
22nd October 2021
Port of Tyne is sustainable supply chain management finalist in the 2021 Seatrade Awards
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Equinor CEO visits Port of Tyne and Dogger Bank O&M base
22nd October 2021
Port of Tyne was host to the CEO of Equinor, Anders Opedal, Pal Eitrheim (Executive Vice President), Alex Grant (Senior VP), Halfdan Brustad (Vice President) and other senior members of the Dogger Bank project team to see the construction site for the Equinor / SSE O&M base at the Port.
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PORT OF TYNE WELCOMES SHIPPING MINISTER ROBERT COURTS
14th October 2021
Port of Tyne welcomed Robert Courts MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Shipping Minister today, 14 October 2021.
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PORT OF TYNE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE WITH BORDER CONTROL POST COMPLETION
11th October 2021
Port of Tyne, one of the UK’s leading deep-sea ports, has announced the completion of its border control post (BCP) building this month, ahead of schedule.
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PORT OF TYNE AND EQUINOR ANNOUNCED AS NEW NORTH EAST ENERGY CATALYST PARTNERS
1st October 2021
The Port of Tyne and Equinor have been announced as partners in the North East Energy Catalyst network.
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PORT OF TYNE HITS NEW GREEN MILESTONE WITH NET ZERO WAREHOUSE
30th September 2021
The Port of Tyne now operates a Net Zero Port Centric Warehouse, run entirely using clean energy from renewable sources.
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Komatsu Awards Port of Tyne Top Supplier Award
27th September 2021
Port of Tyne is delighted to have been awarded Indirect Supplier of the Year by long-standing customer, Komatsu, at the Komatsu annual supplier day on 23rd September 2021.
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SIEMENS HELPS PORT OF TYNE CREATE BLUEPRINT FOR DECARBONISATION OF UK PORTS
15th September 2021
Port of Tyne, Siemens and a project consortium of three further partners have been granted funding by the Department of Transport to create a blueprint for the decarbonisation of the UK’s ports.
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TEA TIMES TRADING CUTS CO2 AND TRAFFIC BY ROUTING TEA INTO THE TYNE
8th September 2021
Family-owned Tea Times Trading has become the latest British company to trade road haulage for a more sustainable method of logistics and ship its tea containers straight into South Shields. In doing so over 25,000 road miles, which creates 35,000kg of CO2, have been removed.
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PORT OF TYNE IMPROVES CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE WITH REFURBISHED QUAY
7th September 2021
Port of Tyne, one of the UK’s most popular deep water cruise and ferry ports, has invested in passenger and cruise operator experience with a £542k refurbishment of its quayside facility, Northumbrian Quay.
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MAGIC ON THE TYNE AS DISNEY CRUISE LINE MAKES SEASON’S FIRST CALL TO PORT
3rd September 2021
Port of Tyne welcomed the Disney Magic to its recently upgraded Northumbria Quay today (Friday 3rd September) marking the cruise line’s first call to the region in her 2021 season.
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PORT OF TYNE SEES LARGEST EVER WOOD PELLET SHIPMENT
24th August 2021
Port of Tyne has discharged its largest ever wood pellet shipment carrying 62,522.49 metric tonnes of sustainable biomass pellets for Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire.
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PORT OF TYNE IMPRESSES ENERGY MINISTER WITH CLEAN ENERGY PARK AND AWARD WINNING ROADMAP
29th July 2021
Port of Tyne welcomed the Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy today.
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INDEPENDENT STUDY REVEALS GOOD AIR QUALITY AROUND THE PORT OF TYNE
14th July 2021
Air quality around the Port of Tyne is “good” and well within the required national standards, an independent inventory of pollutant gas emissions has concluded.
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