Information and guidance for young people aged 13-19
PORTS, TRANSPORT
AND LOGISTICS
The transport and logistics sectors in Suffolk include warehousing, storage, road and rail
transport, freight and sea shipping. The Port of Felixstowe is Britain’s largest container port and
of major importance to the UK economy.
What is happening?
Skills & qualities
• 1 in 12 people in the UK work in the logistics
sector, that’s over 2.3 million people.1 In Suffolk,
the ports and logistics industry employs around
15,000 workers2.
• The Port of Felixstowe is Britain’s biggest and
busiest container port.
• More than one in ten jobs in Suffolk Coastal is in
logistics3 and 588,000 additional workers in the
logistics sector will be needed in the UK between
now and 20204.
Local employers
• The Port of Felixstowe (Hutchison Port
Holdings)
• Road haulage - moving goods by road – and
warehousing are growth areas.
• CEVA Logistics
• Damco
• ABP (Ipswich and
Lowestoft ports)
• Shortage of drivers - 150,000 needed by 2020 and
a severe shortage of LGV drivers in the UK 5.
• Maritime
Transport
• Global Marine
Systems
• Growth for air transport, including freight services
across the UK, and shortage of pilots globally.
• Norbert
Dentressangle
• Norse
• Demand for customer service roles, managers,
transport, IT, finance and administration.
• Technology is having a huge impact on this sector.
• Abellio Greater
Anglia
What could you earn?*
Large goods vehicle driver
£26,300
Fork lift truck driver
£20,600
»» Real-time information for public transport users
means fewer information advisers.
Storage and warehouse manager
£28,600
Warehouse operative
£19,000
»» A
utomated ‘picking’ at distribution centres means
fewer warehouse staff.
Train or tram driver
£48,000
Bus driver
£22,800
Transport and distribution manager
£37,100
Postal worker
£23,900
Aircraft pilot
£90,400
The impact of technology
»» G
lobal tracking of goods and vehicles – better
customer service.
»» IT solutions can drive down fuel costs.
»» Online shopping creating greater need for deliveries.
»» Video conferencing means less business travel.
»» R
educing traffic congestion and accidents – more IT
specialists needed.
On the web
www.deliveringyourfuture.co.uk
www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship
1,4 and 5 Skills for Logistics 2, 3 Invest in Suffolk * Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2014.
Average full-time (median) salary rounded to the nearest £100. Doesn’t include self employed
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