Freeport Focus – Edition 1
March 2025
News
Humber Freeport is looking for an experienced director to lead its Board. The strategic leadership role will require the individual to operate in a rapidly changing and complex environment. The…
“If you work in property or investment, then you simply need to be at UKREiiF.” That’s what last year’s Prop Star, Cameron Wood, had to say when he reflected on…
When freeports were established in the UK, the Humber was identified as the region with the most powerful proposition. Since its launch, Humber Freeport has helped to attract well over…
Plans have been submitted to create the UK’s largest tissue paper mill in Goole, within the Humber Freeport tax site. Finnish manufacturer Metsä Tissue and Wykeland Group, which owns the…
The Humber Freeport Board is beginning the process to appoint a new Chair after Simon Bird resigned from the position. Having recently returned to his home in the North West…
The Humber is “possibly the most exciting part of the country” in what it offers to the growth of UK plc, a major northern conference has been told. Opening the…
This article first appeared on the Yorkshire Post website on November 27, ahead of the Great Northern Conference in Hull. Net zero. Skills. Innovation. Infrastructure. Growth. All of these…
The cutting-edge technologies which will play a critical role in decarbonising the Humber industrial cluster have been spotlighted at Associated British Ports’s Innovation Day. The event, held at the Aura…
The importance of businesses involving their supply chain from the start of the drive to net zero has been highlighted by an expert panel. Humber Freeport CEO Simon Green joined…
The Chair of Humber Freeport has welcomed a “major vote of confidence” in Freeports. In detailed Budget documents published following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Commons statement, the Government announced the Freeports…