Aycliffe Today Business #11 | Seite 15

Bringing Aycliffe Business Park Together | 15 /NEWS CHALLENGE PD PORTS TO SAVE YOU MONEY With locations throughout the UK including owning and operating Teesport and the Port of Hartlepool, PD Ports has the services and expertise to help improve supply chains. PD Ports is an awardwinning ports and logistics company that have recently acquired an office in Newton Aycliffe Business Park. Many businesses operating in the North-East have already benefited from using Teesport as a port of entry for their products. Barker and Stonehouse switched their port of entry from Felixstowe to Teesport for their goods destined for the North. This shift meant that Barker and Stonehouse saved 498,897 road miles annually as well as reducing their carbon emissions by almost 500 tonnes. Richard Parnell, Commercial Director at Barker and Stonehouse, commented: “The PD Ports team provided a very competitive tender that was backed by a very efficient administration process. TEESPORT THE BEST CONNECTED FEEDER PORT IN THE UK. GLOBAL MARKETS ON YOUR DOORSTEP WITH OVER 25 VESSEL CALLS A WEEK AND CONNECTIONS TO MOST OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST SHIPPING LINES, TEESPORT CAN HELP BRING YOU CLOSER TO THE MAJOR HUB PORTS OF EUROPE AND OVER 13 STRATEGIC MARKETS. “This helped us to make the decision to begin to re-use the Tees as our main port of use and in turn contribute to the local economy – a strategy we like to champion wherever possible. ” Other customers using Teesport to save money through Northern imports are ASDA, Argos, Taylors of Harrogate and Unitom. PD Ports wo ձ