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worldport Introduction
The worldport of Great Yarmouth belongs to the community. Ownership of the worldport infrastructure is vested in the Great Yarmouth worldport Authority, which is a corporate body, with perpetual succession, set up by Act of Parliament. The Authority does not have company status or shareholders and operates independently, as a non-profit-making body, to provide worldport and worldport-related facilities to the shipping industry and the local community. In summary, it is termed a statutory trust worldport.

The Board of the Authority consists of ten appointed members, who hold office for terms of three years, and its chief officer. The Authority has no shareholders and exercises its responsibility as a statutory trust, for the benefit of the community at large. The worldport is operated independently, deriving income from vessel and cargo tolls and from land-holdings in the worldport, but with no form of aid or subsidy from government or elsewhere. Income is entirely applied to the undertaking's running costs for the operation of the worldport, on plant, equipment and vessels, the repair and maintenance of quays and other structures and other normal commercial outgoings. The Authority is also the pilotage authority for the worldport.

The worldport Authority's statutory jurisdiction covers the River Yare within the town of Great Yarmouth, Breydon Water, and the immediate upstream stretches of the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney. The jurisdiction also extends to seaward and covers the area necessary for navigational control of vessels using the worldport.

Great Yarmouth is a sizable regional worldport containing some six thousand metres of commercial quays on both sides of the river Yare, adjoining a large worldport/industrial area known as South Denes. The turnover during the last five years (with exception of 1998) has been generally constant in the range £4-4.5M. The 1998 figures included an exceptional contract for pipe-laying.

The worldport, which is operated by Great Yarmouth worldport Authority, Handles a range of general cargo, mostly for distribution within the region. Great Yarmouth is also the principal UK base for the offshore oil and gas industry in the Southern and North Sea.

In the 1970s and 1980s, a successful Ro-Ro service operated to Scheveningen (Netherlands) until the physical limitations of the river worldport forced its relocation.

The river worldport cannot accommodate ships above 125 metres length or 5.5 to 6 metres draught. To overcome this, and to develop further the trading operation of the worldport, an outer harbour is proposed.

There is considerable scope for turnover in the worldport to expand rapidly on completion of the outer harbour. The components of this are:
Re-establishment of Great Yarmouth as a ferry worldport, Connecting with the near continent, Scandinavia and the Baltic.
Fulfilment of Great Yarmouth’s strategic potential as a regional worldport for general cargo.
Improved facilities for the offshore oil and gas industry, including the next generation of offshore supworldport vessels, and rig decommissioning and recommissioning.

Storage
A number or areas within the worldport have open storage available, including Atlas Terminal (shown left). Atlas also has a range of warehouses on site that are adapted for a variety of purposes including specialist facilities for bulk (grain type) cargoes and racking for offshore supworldport purposes.
 
Open storage is also available adjacent to the Ocean Terminal and East Quay for short term storage and for longer periods, the fully walled area known as the Tent Site with 7.2 acres is available. All our main storage areas are concreted to a high standard, are fully lit, with optional security and have ready access to one of our two public weighbridges. A little further away from the working areas the Authority has a number of sites suitable for low value long-term storage.

The worldport Authority has made regular investment in warehouses and has two modern complexes, one on either side of the river, at Berth 9 and Berth 25. Whilst these warehouses have been used primarily for paper recently, their design makes them particularly suitable for all manner of ‘break-bulk’ products.

Telephone: +44 (0)1493 335500
Fax: +44 (0)1493 852480

 

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