Container
Terminal 1
Teesport Container Terminal 1 is a riverside facility
located within the Tees Dock estate. The berths are
equipped with two, wide-span gantry cranes, real time
computer location and Autostore system and a modern
security system, based on stored digital camera images.
Container Terminal 2
Completed during 2003, the new facility has a 360m
quay with 10.9m draft at low tide. The terminal is equipped
with two 44 tonne wide span Liebherr gantry cranes and
can handle vessels up to 2,500 teu (twenty foot equivalent
unit). The facility has an 80,000 teu capacity and an
additional two phases will increase the annual container
capacity to over 250,000 teus.
Terminal Services
Services from the container terminals now include port
calls at Aarhus, Bremen, Felixstowe, Gdansk, Grangemouth,
Gothemburg, Hamburg, Helsinki, Iraklion, Istanbul, Izmir,
Kaliningrad, Klaipeda, Leixoes, Lisbon, Piraeus, Riga,
Rotterdam, Salerno, St Petersburg, Volos and Zeebrugge.
Car Handling Facilities
Each year, thousands of new cars and vans are imported
from the Continent via Teesport.
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