Cargoes
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A cargo of JCB excavators at Tilbury (click to enlarge image) |
The Port of London handles over 50 million tonnes of a wide range of cargoes every year. These include:
- unitised consignments (principally containers and lorry trailers)
- sea-dredged and secondary aggregates
- forest products
- crude oil and petroleum products
- sugar
- vehicles and plant
- cereals
- animal feedstuffs
- edible oils and fats
- chemicals
- fertilisers
- cement
- steel and other metals
- containerised refuse
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Forest products at Seacon's London terminal (click to enlarge image) |
Origins and Destinations
Click here to download "Origins and Destinations", an outline of where some of the cargoes handled in London come from and go to (pdf - 790kb).
Notable Operations
Notable operations within the Port of London include:
- The Port of Tilbury, which by itself is one of the larger Ports in the UK and is the UK's third largest container handler
- The world's largest sugar cane refinery (Tate & Lyle in Silvertown)
- Tilbury Container Services, handling over 4 million tonnes annually
- The Petroplus Coryton oil refinery with a capacity of ten million tons
- Europe's largest sea-dredged aggregates terminal (Murphy's Wharf in Greenwich)
- Ford's Dagenham Terminal - a vital link in the logistics chain between all of the company's UK operations and Europe
- CMDR's Ferry Terminals at Purfleet and Dartford offering frequent sailings for trucks and trailers to and from the near continent
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Containers heading to London (Click to enlarge image) |
For more information about the history and development of containers visit the Container Shipping Information Service website (opens in a new window).
For more information about the cargoes and operational facilities in the Port of London, please use this Enquiry Form.
