Port of Tyne

From Global Energy Monitor

Port of Tyne is a port in Tyne and Wear, England. It operated as a coal import terminal until 2016 and as a coal export terminal until February 2021.

Location

The Port of Tyne comprises the commercial docks in and around the River Tyne in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England.

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Background

The port handled the majority of Newport coal exports from the local mines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Due to a decline in coal mining in the 1990s, the port diversified to handle bulk and conventional cargo, including coal, wood-pellet, scrap, and steel. The volume of imported coal increased from zero in 2003 to 4.9 million tonnes in 2013, making it the UK's second largest coal importer.[1]

2013 marked the peak of coal imports for the Port of Tyne, and they declined steeply thereafter. 2015 marked the last year of coal imports for the Port of Tyne, and from 2016 going forward, the port has not imported any coal.[2]. Major investments and a continued diversification of products handled allowed the Port of Tyne to return to business growth in 2018, two years after the end of coal imports.[3]

In February 2021, the Port of Tyne announced that it was sending out its last ever shipment of coal from England's North East, as “the world moves on from coal”.[4]

Project Details

  • Operator: Port of Tyne Logistics
  • Location: Tyne and Wear, England
  • Capacity (Tonnes per annum): 5 million
  • Status: Retired (Imports: 2016; Exports: 2021)
  • Type: Imports and Exports

Articles and Resources

References

  1. "About Us," Port of Tyne, accessed Dec 2015
  2. Dropping coal position, Port Strategy, Dec. 16, 2017
  3. PORT OF TYNE ANNOUNCES RETURN TO GROWTH, Port of Tyne, June 26, 2018
  4. North East marks the end of an era as the last ever shipment of coal sails from the River Tyne, Chronicle Live, Feb. 18, 2021

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