London Gateway PortCentrics

PortCentrics is the combination of various elements of the supply chain centred around a port facility. It combines the port of entry with warehouse, distribution, assembly and manufacturing buildings, with various modes of transport including road, rail and sea in order to maximise efficiencies in, and minimise the costs of, the supply chain from “origin to destination”.

The PortCentrics platform is a "smart solution". It is about more effective supply-chain management by eliminating the unnecessary handling and movement of goods through reducing the primary and secondary trunk movements, improving time to market, reducing inventories in transit and thus inventory levels, and resulting in reduced supply chain costs and increased efficiencies, reduced distribution costs, road miles and lower carbon outputs.

London Gateway is the ultimate in PortCentrics, a unique logistics platform in the UK that combines a world-class deep-sea container port with Europe’s largest dedicated logistics park, supported by a comprehensive multi-modal capability combining the deep-sea port facility with short-sea feeder services, rail and dual-carriageway connection to the UK motorway network, all providing access to the markets in London and the south east, throughout the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe. It is also located within easy reach of all three London international airports of London Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.

The port itself, with highly automated systems and intelligent tracking, will provide customers with fast identification and retrieval of containers and stack management to hold and control containers to meet demand.

In addition, with Europe's largest logistics park situated next to the port, many of the goods offloaded at London Gateway will move immediately into the park instead of being transported to another part of the UK for reworking and distribution, saving many road miles and costs.

London Gateway will become a major hub and port of entry for goods coming into the UK, and for goods destined for onward transition to Ireland and Continental Europe, for organisations that recognise and strive for the most effective, cost-efficient and sustainable global supply-chain solutions.