Ports

Montrose

Charting the uncharted

Port key facts:

• 24/7/365 operation
• 104 acre port estate
• quayside: 1000m
• berth depth: 8m
• 42,000m² internal space
• 130,000m² open storage space
• 3x heavy lift pads

The structure and location of Montrose Port brings customers a flexible and accessible service which is distinctive to Montrose.

Being a smaller port with all the comprehensive facilities and expertise of larger ports means that Montrose Port can offer an agile, hands-on service with direct 24/7 staff access, all at competitive rates.

With around 1,000 metres of quayside on both the north and south side of the harbour, Montrose Port provides a sheltered haven almost half a mile long. Facilities include water berths to a depth of 8m, 130,000m² of open storage, 42,000m² of warehousing and over 2,000m² of office space on the quayside estate. Montrose Port is currently developing Montrose Port Industrial Park, two miles north of the quayside estate, offering prime opportunities for marine, energy and logistics businesses particularly those that work within the renewable energy supply chain.

Montrose was also the first port in Scotland to provide shore power to supply vessels working in the offshore energy industry, helping customers reduce emissions while alongside. Affordable layover rates allow vessels to remain in port as long as needed to mobilise or demobilise, with the freedom to choose preferred stevedoring or fuel suppliers.

As a trust port, all profits are reinvested into the local community and into upgrading infrastructure and facilities, ensuring competitive rates and enabling tailored, innovative solutions to meet every customer’s needs.

Leith

Scotland’s Capital Port and largest enclosed deep water port

Port of Leith at a glance:

• Capable of handling ships up to 50,000 DWT
• 2 dry dock facilities
• Port can handle in excess of 1M tonnes of cargo
• Home to the Royal Yacht Britannia
• Scotland’s marquee cruise call
• Demobilisation and mobilisation facilities

Forth Ports Leith is Scotland’s largest enclosed deep-water port with the capability of handling vessels up to 50,000 deadweight tonnes. Located to the north east of Edinburgh, less than 3 miles from the city centre, the port has access to Scotland’s road and rail networks and is well positioned for all North Sea shipping activities.

Focussing on a range of cargo types, Leith has forged long-term relationships with customers ensuring that their needs are met for the reception and onward delivery of cargoes such as grain, animal feed, steel pipes and recycled products, ensuring that industries such as food production, oil and gas, and agriculture continue to operate and thrive.

Grangemouth

Scotland’s Largest Port and largest container and reefer terminal

• 7 weekly feeder services
• Top 10  global shipping lines utilise the port
• Liquid bulk terminal for Oil & Gas
• 70% of Scotland’s population within an hour’s drive
• 500,000 square foot of warehousing
• Rail linked to main East and West Coast lines

Forth Ports Grangemouth is Scotland’s largest port handling 9 million tonnes of cargo each year through specialist container, liquid and general cargo terminals. This cargo flow represents as much as 30% of Scotland’s gross domestic product (GDP), highlighting the port’s essential role as an economic facilitator for Scotland. Situated midway between Scotland’s main cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the port is the ideal logistics and distribution hub with 70% of Scotland’s population within 1 hour’s drive and unrivalled connectivity via road, rail and sea.

As an integral part of their supply chain, Grangemouth is a trusted partner of many major UK companies. Providing a gateway for Scottish trade, the port facilitates the flow of more than £6 billion worth of goods each year including fine food and drink, machinery, fuel, steel products, timber, paper and equipment for the oil and gas industry. Through our supply chain expertise and commitment to efficiency we help our customers not only trade internationally but also consolidate operations, increasing their flexibility, productivity and capacity – saving them time and money.

Forth Green Freeport

Forth Green Freeport is Scotland’s largest opportunity to deliver a just transition to net zero, to attract significant inward investment, to build international trade and export capability, and to create high quality and well paid jobs. New technology backed skills development will address areas of acute deprivation within our communities.

The Forth Green Freeport comprises both private and public organisations who work together to deliver the vision. They are:

• Babcock
• CalaChem
• Edinburgh Airport
• Falkirk Council
• Fife Council
• Forth Ports
• INEOS
• Royal Navy
• Scarborough Muir Group
• The City of Edinburgh Council

Delivering a just transition for Scotland’s industrial heartland, will allow the nation to be at the forefront of the developing offshore wind and alternative fuels sectors. It will create Scotland’s largest offshore wind marshalling and manufacturing hub.

The area around Forth Green Freeport generates 40% of Scotland’s industrial emissions today. This will be addressed to achieve the 2045 net zero target, without damaging the economy of Scotland.

Forth Green Freeport will accelerate our expertise in shipbuilding and capitalise on the existing collaboration between industry and academia, delivering progress in advanced manufacturing and automation.

Investments will stimulate growth in trade, providing expanded logistics and trade capacity for existing and emerging industries including advanced modular systems, biofuels, hydrogen and carbon capture, e-commerce, pharmaceuticals and storage, as well as support additional R&D capability and green incubator space to drive SME and start-up business growth.

Focused investments and joint ambition will minimise the risk of a net zero shift for workers in the petrochemicals sector, provide a hot bed for innovation and create well paid, high quality jobs in some of the most deprived areas of Scotland, addressing the need for wealth retention and place creation in areas closest to industrial activity.

Experience gained in delivering a successful freeport, large areas of underdeveloped industrial land and credible investors will allow delivery at pace. Forth Green Freeport is projected to benefit industrial clusters and communities well beyond its boundary. Improving social and transport infrastructure for local communities by re-investing the benefits of the green freeport into a place-based dedicated fund.