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Councillor Mark Coxshall says the new Thames Freeport will help level-up Thurrock A NEW freeport will hugely bolster employment in Thurrock, a leading councillor has proclaimed. DP World and Forth Ports are bidding for a new Thames Freeport, with London Gateway, the Port of Tilbury and Ford’s Dagenham engine plant with the Thames Enterprise Park at its heart. Thames Enterprise Park is a 669-acre former oil refinery ripe for development. A freeport in Thurrock would secure more than £400 million in port infrastructure, which will lead to a doubling of a port capacity and over 20,000 new jobs, with significant investment in training and skills over the next 25 years.
A new freeport to boost employment in Thurrock
A NEW freeport will hugely bolster employment in Thurrock, a leading councillor has proclaimed.
DP World and Forth Ports are bidding for a new Thames Freeport, with London Gateway, the Port of Tilbury and Ford’s Dagenham engine plant with the Thames Enterprise Park at its heart.
Thames Enterprise Park is a 669-acre former oil refinery ripe for development.
A freeport in Thurrock would secure more than £400 million in port infrastructure, which will lead to a doubling of a port capacity and over 20,000 new jobs, with significant investment in training and skills over the next 25 years.
Boost for freeport bid as Thames Enterprise Park joins London Gateway, Port of Tilbury and Ford
THE bid for a freeport on the Thames is now even stronger. Thames Enterprise Park – a 669-acre former oil refinery development site shortly to become a manufacturing, logistics and clean energy hub – is joining the bid.
Located directly next to DP World London Gateway, Thames Enterprise Park will bring additional development and expansion land to the bid, as well as add to its vision for a clean fuel hydrogen network that aligns closely with the UK’s net zero carbon agenda.
Thames Enterprise Park is one of the largest regeneration projects in the UK and bringing it into the bid as a customs sub-zone means that the transformative impact of freeport status will be even greater – a key objective of the Government’s freeport policy.
THE creation of a Thames Freeport could spark an explosion in growth and create 20,000 jobs in the region. International port operator DP World and Forth Ports are bidding for a Thames Freeport with London Gateway, with the Thurrock-based Port of Tilbury and Ford’s Dagenham engine plant at its heart. Freeports, championed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, are zones designated by the government as areas with little to no tax in order to encourage economic activity giving them a huge advantage in terms of regeneration and job creation. The Thames Freeport will have direct shipping routes to every continent for exporters to get their goods to market quickly.