23-451: (Redirected from Outer Harbor ) Outer Harbour or Harbor may refer to: Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour , England Outer Harbor, South Australia Outer Harbor railway line Outer Harbor railway station Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal , Macau, China Outer Harbour of Fremantle Harbour , Australia Outer Harbour of Toronto Harbour , Canada [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
46-452: A container terminal and a passenger ferry terminal, but with no confirmed contracts these were not built. The contract for the harbour construction was awarded jointly to Van Oord UK Ltd and Edmund Nuttall Ltd. The contract was worth in the region of £75m. The new harbour consists of construction of two breakwaters with a total length of approximately 1,400m, requiring the importation of approximately 900,000 tons of rock materials. There
69-406: A fully operational container berth available after 18 months. Great Yarmouth Port Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of International Port Holdings (IPH) which was formed in 2006 with a strategy to invest in small to medium-sized ports having the potential to expand in scope and scale, and to contribute to regeneration initiatives and economic development. The scheme received £8.75m in funding from
92-566: A separate Ministry of Aviation was formed. Transport responsibilities were subsumed by the Department for the Environment, headed by the secretary of state for the environment from 15 October 1970 to 10 September 1976. The Department for Transport was recreated as a separate department by James Callaghan in 1976. The super-department Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
115-545: A view to seeking break-out loads from Rotterdam for onward journey to Midlands and the North-West – but this strategy was abandoned after a short time and the cranes were relocated elsewhere. In the short-term the failure of PSA's container cranes to attract trade drew copious negative coverage in the media and it led to claims that the outer harbour was a complete " white elephant ". In reality between 2010 and 2015 International Port Holdings – trading as Eastport UK – operated both
138-573: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour is a port constructed on the east coast of England at Great Yarmouth . Construction work on the Outer Harbour began in June 2007. The harbour which is built in the South Denes area was planned to bring trade to the area. The plans included
161-568: The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) . Great Yarmouth Port Authority and IPH reached an agreement for Great Yarmouth Port Company to develop the Outer Harbour and take over the operation of the port. In 2000 a partnership of the port authority, Norfolk County Council and Great Yarmouth Borough Council had formed East Port Great Yarmouth Ltd bringing in Peter Hardy (special projects director at
184-1100: The Glovis Splendor unloaded a cargo of 3,300 cars destined for UK car dealerships. In November 2016 Peel Ports embarked on a major strengthening of the outer harbour quays – to the seaward side of South Beach Parade to prepare for the construction of giant turbines from March 2017 as part of the multimillion-pound Galloper and East Anglia One windfarm projects. 52°34′33″N 1°44′22″E / 52.5759°N 1.7394°E / 52.5759; 1.7394 Secretary of State for Transport King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The secretary of state for transport , also referred to as
207-519: The Zhen Hua 6 , carrying two gantry cranes manufactured by ZPMC happened on 4 May 2009. On 19 May 2009 Gantry Crane 01 was unloaded from the ship after bad weather had caused a delay to this operation. On 21 May 2009 Gantry Crane 02 was unloaded from the ship. Both cranes have stood idle since their arrival, except for a few training sessions. The cranes were installed speculatively by the Port of Singapore with
230-611: The transport secretary , is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom , with overall responsibility for the policies of the Department for Transport . The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom . The office holder works alongside the other transport ministers . The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for transport , and
253-548: The Country Landowners Association. The new plans featured a smaller but eminently effective Outer Harbour able to accommodate larger vessels but at a cost which made the prospects for funding its construction far more attainable. In February 2005 the then Labour Secretary of State for Transport Alistair Darling finally announced £12 million of public funding for the Outer Harbour – including £2 million in cash from Norfolk County Council and £1 million in land from
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#1732845224244276-492: The Inner Port and Outer Harbour on a very profitable basis on the basis of traditional general cargos, offshore support and exploration, and new use of the Outer Harbour for the very large Sea Jacks vessels connected to the energy industry which could never previously have been accommodated in the river port. They invested in improvements to the Outer Harbour structure to alleviate teething problems and relocated their port offices to
299-643: The Yarmouth Port six years after merchants Gleadell invested £5 million in developing a grain terminal in the new Outer Harbour. It is one of only seven or eight English ports capable of loading vessels over 13,000 tonnes. The millionth tonne was part of a 27,500 tonne cargo loaded onto the MV Resko . In July 2016 Peel Ports Great Yarmouth welcomed the largest vessel to enter the Yarmouth Outer Harbour – at 200 metres in length and weighing in at 64,000 tonnes –
322-426: The borough council. Construction commenced in 2007 and was completed on time and on budget by the spring of 2009. The new harbour saw the construction of two breakwaters of 850,000 tons of rock, 1,400 metres in length. Each arm has an internal Combi-pile wall of approximately 400 metres in length. Inside the harbour the seabed is dredged to 10 metres average depth. This produced 1.65 million cubic metres of sand which
345-518: The county council who had previously delivered the multimillion-pound Millenium Forum project in Norwich), along with Tim Byles (chief executive of Norfolk County Council), Richard Packham (chief executive of the borough council), and Alex Woods (port manager). Importantly, some Norfolk personages also joined the new Eastport Board – Richard Jewson (Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk) as chairman, David Toot (managing director of Great Yarmouth Power) and Ian MacNicol of
368-560: The old Omnipac site close to the new harbour. The future potential of the port was clearly demonstrated when in December 2015 one of the UK's largest port groups Peel Ports (which operated ports in Liverpool, Manchester, Medway, Glasgow and Belfast amongst others) purchased IPC's interests in the Yarmouth Port for an estimated £50 million. In May 2016 the millionth tonne of grain was exported through
391-431: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Outer_Harbour&oldid=1219308380 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
414-578: The secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Transport Select Committee . The current secretary of state for transport is Louise Haigh , who was appointed under Keir Starmer following Labour 's victory in the 2024 general election . The Ministry of Transport absorbed the Ministry of Shipping and was renamed the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its previous name at the end of
437-449: The war. The Ministry of Civil Aviation was created by Winston Churchill in 1944 to look at peaceful ways of using aircraft and to find something for the aircraft factories to do after the war. The new Conservative government in 1951 appointed the same minister to both Transport and Civil Aviation, finally amalgamating the ministries on 1 October 1953. The Ministry was renamed back to the Ministry of Transport on 14 October 1959, when
460-422: Was dredging and subsequent beneficial reuse of approximately 1,600,000 m3 of sand to provide 17.6 ha of land for future port development. The joint venture constructed approximately 450 metres of quay wall with associated capping beam and crane rail as well as 225 metres of revetment berth and associated berthing dolphins. Work commenced on site in June 2007. Completion was expected within two years with
483-438: Was an achievement in itself but the changed economy at the time of opening in 2009 – with surplus capacity in other ports like Felixstowe – meant that the original plans for a schedule of two ro-pax ferries operating a thrice-daily service were not going to be delivered in the short term. In late April 2009, the northern quay was substantially complete with fenders, mooring bollards and gantry crane rails installed. The arrival of
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#1732845224244506-1097: Was created in 1997 for Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott . In 2001, the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was widely considered unwieldy and so was broken up, with the Transport functions now combined with Local Government and the Regions in the DTLR ( Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions ). Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Labour National Labour Liberal National Liberal Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Labour National Liberal Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Labour Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Labour The junior ministers responsible for transport within
529-500: Was used for reclamation work on the new harbour. The remains of a 34-year-old wreck, the 353-ton Dutch coaster Polaris , were removed from the Harbour. The Polaris , which sank in February 1973, had lain on the seabed about 100 metres from the shoreline in the middle of the outer harbour site. That the new deep water outer harbour was constructed during the height of the world economic crash
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