Port of Grimsby and Immingham Coal Terminal
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Port of Grimsby and Immingham Coal Terminal is a coal port in England.[1][2][3]
Location
The port is located along the south bank of the Humber, in the United Kingdom
Background
The Port of Immingham, owned and operated by Associated British Ports (ABP), is located along the south bank of the Humber. Set on an estuary with naturally deep water channels with easy access to major trade routes, Immingham is ideally located for the easy distribution of many types of cargo. It is the UK’s largest port in terms of tonnage, handling approximately 50 million tonnes per year of freight – 20 million tpy of this is dry bulk.[4] The port handles dry bulk, such as coal, ores, grain, fertilizer, road salt and biomass, as well as crude oil, LPG, ro-ro/lo-lo, containers.
Dry bulk terminal
In the last fifteen years, the dry bulk facilities at Immingham have gone through major changes and developments. In 2000, Immingham’s Humber International Terminal (HIT) was opened. More than £30 million was invested into this development, adding a 300 m berth to the west of the existing Immingham Bulk Terminal. HIT handles solid fuels, such as coal, as well as biomass, animal feed, fertilizer, road salt, grain, iron ore and other minerals. In response to an increase in coal imports, in 2003, Humber International Terminal’s second berth (HIT 2) was constructed, costing £60 million and extending HIT’s total quay length by 220 m – enabling it to handle a panamax and a capesize simultaneously on a 520 m quay. HIT 1 focuses on the handling of biomass and HIT 2, coal. Each year, the port handles approximately 10 million tpy of coal and can handle up to 6 million tonnes per year of biomass.[4]
Project Details
- Owner: Associated British Ports (ABP)
- Parent:
- Location: England
- Status: Operating
- Coal Capacity (million tonnes per annum): approximately 10
- Dry Bulk Capacity (million tonnes per annum) : 20
- Start Year: 1920[4]
- Type: Imports
- Source of Coal:
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ "UK: Leading ports for coal tonnage". Statista. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ↑ "Port freight annual statistics 2022: Cargo information - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ↑ Port visit: Port of Immingham, World Coal, May 2, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Port visit: Port of Immingham | World Coal". www.worldcoal.com. Retrieved 2026-09-11.
