Key Statistics

About London Gateway

• UK’s first 21st Century major deep-sea container port and Europe’s largest logistics park. It is the most significant UK port development for 20 years.
• Size - a 1,500 acre disused brownfield site, which will accommodate a mixture of commercial and logistics uses.
• Location - just 25 miles from central London on the former Shell Haven oil refinery location at Stanford-le-Hope on the north bank of the Thames.
• 2.7 kilometre-long River Thames frontage.
• Employment - over 12,000 new jobs.

Port

• Quay length - 2,700 metres.
• Best tidal window access for deep-drafted vessels and a capacity of 3.5m TEUs per annum.
• Number of berths – 6.
• Terminal Area – 175 hectares.
• Number of Quay Cranes – 24.

Logistics Park

• Size of logistics park - London Gateway has outline planning permission for over 9 million square feet for the distribution, manufacturing and high-tech sectors.
• Size of units – individual units offered up to and in excess of one million square feet, designed to specification.

Environment

• Increasing efficiency of the UK logistics supply chain – this will save thousands of truck movements per day off the national highways which DP World currently estimates will save over 60 million miles of annual lorry movements (this equals 148,000 tonnes of CO2 savings per annum).