This month PD Ports and its recently appointed Far East representatives, Infinity Logistics, hosted a reception at the British Embassy in Bangkok, attended by the British Ambassador, Quinton Quayle and Minister of Commerce for Thailand, Viroon Tejapaibul, before moving on to the 6th Asean Ports & Shipping conference in Vietnam.
In December PD Ports visited Singapore and Malaysia, whilst similar trips are planned to Mumbai in India and Dubai before the end of the year.
Martyn Pellew, PD Ports group development director, said: “There is no point in us building a £300million container port on Teesside if no one knows about it. Today, overseas based manufacturers such as those in Thailand can only use Teesport for container freight traffic coming into Britain on smaller feeder ships through continental ports such as Rotterdam or Zebrugge but in three years they can come direct.”
You need a free subscription to read the entire article.
Subscribe
Subscribe for FREE and gain access to all our content.
More than 5000+ articles.