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London Gateway will combine the UK’s first 21st century deep-sea container port integrated with one of Europe’s largest logistics parks, aimed at increasing productivity and reducing costs for shipping lines and the logistics industries. Located ten miles from the M25 motorway, the port will add an additional 3.5million TEU (standard 20ft equivalent cargo units [containers]) to the nation’s port capacity. This will help meet recognised demand for extra capacity in the UK. Through its integration with Europe’s largest logistics park, London Gateway will offer over nine million square feet for the distribution, manufacturing and high-tech sectors. Construction is now underway at London Gateway in the form of a £400 million dredging and reclamation programme, led by a joint venture between contractors Laing O’Rourke and Dredging International. London Gateway is owned by DP World, one of the largest marine terminal operators in the world, with 49 terminals across 31 countries. History London Gateway is located on the former Shell Haven site in Thurrock in Essex. The 1,500-acre site is a former oil refinery, which closed in 1999. However, the site has been used as a port since the 16th century. DP World received government approval in May 2007 for the development of London Gateway. The proposals were also identified by Gordon Brown as one of the four economic hubs essential for the regeneration of the Thames Gateway.[1] In May 2008, the Department for Transport issued a "Harbour Empowerment Order" for London Gateway, which provided official and statutory powers for the new port and established London Gateway as a legally recognised authority.[2] In January 2010 DP World announced its intention to seek a share listing on the London Stock Exchange in the second quarter of 2010[4] and also gave the go-ahead for construction of essential infrastructure for the port.[5] Dredging in the Thames started in March 2010.[6] Description Port With six berths and the capability to handle Ultra Large Container Ships, the terminal will deploy the latest technology in container handling systems and controls. It is hoped this will provide a significant improvement in handling speeds, which will provide a reduction in the time spent in port. Automated stacking is likely to reduce the vulnerability to adverse weather conditions. Europe’s largest logistics park will be integrated with the port, leading to savings in transport costs along with the environmental benefits of removing unnecessary transport movements and ‘empty’ miles for container transport and delivery vehicles. Speed to market will also be improved. 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’s multi-modal facilities will provide customers of the port and occupiers of the park with a variety of transport options, offering reduced costs, future proofing and sustainable solutions. London Gateway offers multi-modal capability; deep-sea port, short-sea and coastal feeder vessels, rail services throughout the UK through the terminals and rail-linked buildings, dual-carriageway access to the motorway network and within easy reach of London’s international airports. Technology London Gateway will utilise a Vehicle Booking System (VBS) to ensure quick turnaround of all vehicles by planning scheduling of lorry movements and reducing waiting times, thereby helping reduce costs. The Road Haulier Identification system will use smart card technology, together with biometric hand scanning, to enable London Gateway to vet vehicle drivers on arrival at the new port. The Road Gate system will be highly automated with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to read vehicle number plates and container numbers so these details can be automatically cross-checked against the VBS. The video scans will record the state of the containers as they arrive and depart the terminal for future reference. Vehicles on time and validated will be routed into the terminal whilst those out of the booking window or with a problem will be routed to the Help Desk facility.

Security Both the port and the park are under the common ownership and management of DP World. The port and park will offer 24/7 operations, with limited users constraints. A high level of security will be provided, designed to be unobtrusive and sympathetic to the surrounding built and natural environment. The security regime will comply with all local, national and international statutory requirements, and the standard established and required globally by DP World. Transportation of freight Deep-Sea The port will have deep-water access for deep-drafted vessels and a capacity of 3.5m TEUs per annum. Short-Sea London Gateway will provide short-sea shipping services to regional UK ports, to Ireland and other Continental European ports. Road London Gateway is situated ten miles from the M25, providing access to the national motorway network and to the main consumer markets in London and the south east. Rail Rail terminals will be provided within both the port and the park, along with rail-served buildings that will provide regular movement of goods by rail to major population centres in the UK. Each train will carry the equivalent of approximately 37 lorry loads of cargo that will be taken off the UK’s roads helping to reduce both congestion and carbon emissions. Air London Gateway is within reach of the major London international airports of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted. For business travellers, London City Airport is 25 minutes by car. Managing the Marine Environment To allow the new generation of cargo ships to be able to dock on the Thames, it has been necessary to deepen the existing shipping channel. The area that is being dredged is a 300m wide channel from the port area near Stanford-le-Hope, heading eastwards past Canvey towards Southend-on-Sea and out into the estuary. The majority of dredging is being carried out between London Gateway and Shoeburyness. The work, commissioned by port operator and developer DP World, has involved a major marine and wildlife monitoring project in accordance with worldwide environmental laws.

Marine scientists have created a network of buoys that scan the water column to ensure marine life is closely monitored in real-time. This effectively makes a marine cordon around the dredging activity. Extensive monitoring of the surrounding inter-tidal mudflats is also being carried out.

Over 20 environmental organisations including the Environment Agency and the Port of London Authority have formed an Environmental Advisory Group. Together, with DP World London Gateway, they manage ecological and marine issues on what is one of the largest and most complex engineering projects currently in the UK.

London Gateway works alongside, and is guided by, a range of regulatory bodies including the Port of London Authority, Kent and Essex Fisheries Committee, DEFRA and the Environment Agency to devise and maintain stringent environmental controls and ensure there is minimum impact on the marine life of the Thames Estuary. A £400 million dredging and reclamation programme started in March 2010 and is expected to take up to four years to complete. The dredged material will used to reclaim land to build London Gateway. Ecology In addition to the dredge, ecologists have been collecting thousands of animals such as voles, adders, grass snakes and lizards to relocate them to new homes. Over 50,000 animals have been re-housed for this project. Many more species are set to be collected. Additionally, 24 new ponds on 53 hectares of land have been created for the protected great crested newts as well a new sea wall and new mudflats for wading birds. London Gateway works closely with the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, the Environment Agency and Natural England. Economic benefits London Gateway is currently one of the largest inward investments into the UK and is the single largest jobs creation project in the country (Source UKTI July 2010). The development will generate 36,000 jobs in total, including 12,000 directly created jobs, the remainder in associated industries. London Gateway is one of the main economic drivers for helping the regeneration of a large part of the Thames Gateway, the UK’s largest regeneration area covering a 40-mile stretch across East London, South Essex and North Kent. The Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson visited London Gateway on January 5, 2010 to mark the start of construction..

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 - 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. 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).

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We need to change the wording in a number of places as the port is now open.

In response to suggested content below, in a nutshell, it is inappropriate. Content must not read like marketing spiel and must be balanced. It is just not on for a staff member of the company involved to submit such partial info. To their credit, at least they were honest about doing it and asked for comments. As a note to anyone editing on behalf of organisations, you must ensure that what is written is impartial and follows the rules of Wikipedia. Please take a bit of time to familiarise yourself with these rules and write in accordance with them and you stand more chance of your content being accepted with minimal edits. Chancing it and uploading biased info often leads to whole sections being removed. Not covering any negative issues whilst being well aware of them will be seen by many to be dishonest, so either note their omission on the Talk page or have a go at putting in a balanced entry about them. Keep the use of subjective wording out of contributions. Readers of Wikipedia have the right to expect the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!

A notable omission is the industrial relations difficulties. The union Unite held demonstrations at the port and have alleged it could have a deleterious effect on working conditions at other ports. The company running the London Gateway have said they will only enter talks to recognise unions if 50% of staff sign up to a specific union. The article should include such info IMO.

It will take more time than I have available to add the relevant section and do all the updates necessary, hence this comment.

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Section 'policing'
I fail to see the relevance and importance of this section (other than as a mere curio, perhaps) - suggest it is deleted, or else considerably condensed and merged in with another section. DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:17, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Police & Marine Navigation Act 2013
I have removed some largely unsourced original research relating to the port police and the Marine Navigation Act 2013 - the situation is more complicated than the text made out as port police constables generally are not attested directly under HDPCA 1847, but rather another piece of legislation that will have incorporated that Act each time. As the port have not established a police force and do not appear to have any plans to do so I think it is safe to remove this for now. ninety:one  17:33, 19 December 2019 (UTC)