Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS) technology is already ‘light years’ ahead of where it was just few years ago but more needs to be done – especially on the regulatory and assurance fronts – in order for its full benefits to be realised. Those were key takeaways from the UK’s 7th annual MAS Regulatory Working Group .
Port of Tilbury flood defence gates project
Construction work progresses on £34 million scheme.
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3 June 2021 Pictured left to right are Helena Henao-Fernandez, Team 2100 Deputy Programme Director, Environment Agency; Paul Dale, Asset & Site Director, the Port of Tilbury; Alex Gentleman, Balfour Beatty; Mark Johnson, Area Flood and Coastal Risk Manager, Environment Agency; John Curtin, Executive Director for Local Operations, Environment Agency; Adrian Kilburn, Balfour Beatty, and David Housden, Head of Engineering and Procurement, the Port of Tilbury.
Work is progressing on this project of national importance to install new dual function lock gates on the Thames Estuary in Tilbury.
The £34 million scheme is a project between the Environment Agency and the Port of Tilbury that will better protect thousands of homes and businesses in the local area from flooding.
UK Paper Hub secures return of SCA as major new customer at Tilbury
SCA, Europe’s largest private forest owner and producer of wood products, packaging paper, pulp and renewable energy, will return on a long-term deal to market leading UK Paper Hub located at London’s major port, the Port of Tilbury. The 50-acre facility on the Thames will become SCA’s primary UK logistics hub for the import of packaging materials to supply their UK customers.
Sweden based SCA, are a major European logistics supplier – calling at terminals including Umea, Sundsvall, Helsingborg, Oxelösund, Malmo, Iggesund and Kiel – and will see substantial volumes of packaging paper and other third-party cargoes regularly transported by their own Ro-Ro vessels from Sweden to the UK Paper Hubs’ dedicated berths.
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