Teesport

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Teesport is a large sea port located in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire in North-East of England. It is one of the United Kingdom's three largest ports^[1] and lies three miles (5 km) to the east of Middlesbrough. It is currently owned by PD Ports, a division of Babcock & Brown.^[1]

The port covers an area of 200 hectares (2 square kilometres) of land alongside the Southern bank of the River Tees. At its heart is Tees Dock, a deep-water facility some 5 nautical miles (9 km) from the sea. Teesport handles over 6,000 ships a year. Plus it is strongly associated with petrochemicals, manufacturing and engineering. Teesport handles over 56 million tonnes of cargo annually. The estate is rail connected and close to the A66 trans-pennine route, and to other major trunk roads.

Facilities include two Container Quays, one a 294 metres the other 360 metres, and Roll-on Roll Off (RORO) facilities.