THIS new aerial photograph shows the scale of the development at Stanford-le-Hope’s brand new superport.
DP World London Gateway is on track to open the superport at the end of this year.
London Gateway will be the UK’s first 21st century deep-sea container port and Europe’s largest logistics park.
The south Essex skyline has been changed forever with the addition of some of the world’s largest quay cranes at the site.
Standing at 138metres tall, the semi-automatic cranes are taller than the London Eye and took three months to arrive by boat from China.
Roadworks on the A13 to widen the Stanford-le-Hope junction have been ongoing since October last year (2012) at a cost of £10million. The improvements are part of a £150million scheme which site owner DP World, agreed to carry out.
As part of the arrangement, DP World will also be improving Stanford-le-Hope High Street and revamping the railway station by putting in a new bus turning area as it’s expected people working at the superport will commute to the town by train.
Superport facts:
- £1.5billion investment.
- Potential for 36,000 new jobs.
- One-and-a-half mile long quay.
- Will handle 3.5million 20ft containers a year.
- Three-square mile site, three times the size of the City of London.
- 2,000-tonne quay cranes.
