Team Humber Marine Alliance has been further strengthened with DFDS Seaways, of Immingham, agreeing to support the estuary-wide network. DFDS runs one of Northern Europe’s largest freight operations and is among the Humber region’s biggest employers, with around 500 jobs on its 185-acre site.
Read moreTeam Humber member Grimsby Fishdock Enterprises has agreed a 25-year lease with Centrica to enable the energy group to build an operation and maintenance base to serve its wind farms in the Greater Wash. When the facility is completed by the end of this year it is will have capacity for more than 100...
Read moreAssociated British Ports’ port director, Hull and Goole, Matt Jukes has been honoured as ‘The Yorkshire Post Green Champion for 2011’ at the Yorkshire Post Environment awards. The annual awards ceremony aims to recognise and celebrate the best of the important environmental work being undertaken across the region.
Read moreOrganisations from across the city have come together to form a skills partnership to develop skills training packages and raise the skills levels and therefore employability of local people, as progress towards an agreement to build a wind turbine manufacturing facility in the city gathers pace. The partnership, led by Hull City Council working...
Read moreNine lawyers at Andrew Jackson have been recommended in the latest edition of Legal Experts 2011, a leading legal directory. The firm has received more recommendations than any other firm in the Hull and Humber region, with its lawyers identified by researchers as being highly recommended in 10 areas of practice and described as...
Read moreThe managing partner of pan-Humber law firm Andrew Jackson has recently participated in a partners’ conference in New Zealand with Tauranga-based law firm Cooney Lees Morgan, which has been selected as New Zealand’s best mid-sized law firm in the 2010 Law Awards. The conference was organised by Simon Tupman, a former solicitor from Scarborough,...
Read moreAn inward trade mission hosted by Team Humber Marine Alliance and Enterprise Europe Yorkshire has helped Alliance member MTL Group secure a multimillion pound deal for work on an offshore wind farm. MTL Group, the Rotherham-based project manufacturer, is to supply 97 boat landing systems to Aker Solutions, the Norwegian energy group, for Nordsee...
Read moreNick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam, visited Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Hull on April 28. Mr Clegg wanted to see for himself the proposed Green Port Hull site, where ABP and Siemens have put forward redevelopment plans, which include the building of a new factory to...
Read moreMore than 100 Humber businesses were represented at one of Europe’s key renewable energy exhibitions and conferences last week. Team Humber Marine Alliance, the Hull-based industry organisation that seeks business opportunities for its members in renewable energy and other key growth sectors, reported ‘great interest in the Humber’ from All-Energy 2011 in Aberdeen, held...
Read moreGreat news for the Humber region…Siemens has announced it is to build an £80m offshore wind turbine factory in Hull dockland. It will make the estuary the UK’s leading area for the development of wind energy and substantially boost employment.
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