Port of Sunderland

[PinzaC55]

Seems to be doing really well with record cargo volumes coming in last year, hopefully it continues post-Brexit!

Also, I didn't realise it had been in operation for 300 years!

Port of Sunderland sees cargo imports soar

Impossible. Nissan will close, climate change will worsen and the queen will emigrate to Hungary. Stop fooling yourself.

Haway The Port.I loved working at South Dock on the trains and more or less living in The Welcome Tavern.

Not on your PNB I hope ?

 

[Deleted member 29601]

Impossible. Nissan will close, climate change will worsen and the queen will emigrate to Hungary. Stop fooling yourself.



Not on your PNB I hope ?

We were always done before PNB kicked in.Only time it came into anything was if there was a couple of trains in TCT ahead of you.Onto control and will be late for PNB.Relief sent out in a taxi

 

[JohnAin]

Seems to be doing really well with record cargo volumes coming in last year, hopefully it continues post-Brexit!

Also, I didn't realise it had been in operation for 300 years!

Port of Sunderland sees cargo imports soar

Good. More power to its elbow.

 

[Kevj]

Slight blow for the Port;

Jobs lost as Sunderland marine engineering firm moves operations to Teesside

Mr Hunt has stated they have received interest by other companies to take on the facilities, so hopefully, this is just short term.
That said, if UK Docks have taken the workforce with them, who is left to do the work?

 

[Gillythedilf]

We are fighting a loosing battle ,bigger better ports 5 miles either side of us .We Havnt got a chance .

 

[Bakerlooline]

We are fighting a loosing battle ,bigger better ports 5 miles either side of us .We Havnt got a chance .

That’s bollocks by the way.

 

[Gillythedilf]

That’s bollocks by the way.

It what way .?

 

[Caer_Urfa]

We are fighting a loosing battle ,bigger better ports 5 miles either side of us .We Havnt got a chance .

Port of Tyne is booming at Tyne Dock, South Shields.

 

[Bakerlooline]

It what way .?

In every way, there’s loads of opportunity for all North East ports at the moment.

That said, if UK Docks have taken the workforce with them, who is left to do the work?

UK Docks are an engineering company, the Port has its own stevedores.

 

[Kevj]

In every way, there’s loads of opportunity for all North East ports at the moment.


UK Docks are an engineering company, the Port has its own stevedores.

Correct. My statement stands. If the lads who have been employed at UK Dock carrying out the refit and repair work have moved with the company to Boro and another company takes the facilities, who in Sunderland is available to do this work.
I’m very aware that this is a business within the Port and has not bearing on Port activities.

 

[Bakerlooline]

Correct. My statement stands. If the lads who have been employed at UK Dock carrying out the refit and repair work have moved with the company to Boro and another company takes the facilities, who in Sunderland is available to do this work.
I’m very aware that this is a business within the Port and has not bearing on Port activities.

Fair enough. But your statement wasn’t clear. There’s no one to do that work now, it has gone,but as the article says, the Port are talking to other similar businesses who may wish to take on those facilities, but I guess the workforce will have to travel from elsewhere or, the lads UK Docks apply for the new jobs in Sunderland. I doubt that will happen though, there are very few doing this kind of work now.

 

[Kevj]

Fair enough. But your statement wasn’t clear. There’s no one to do that work now, it has gone,but as the article says, the Port are talking to other similar businesses who may wish to take on those facilities, but I guess the workforce will have to travel from elsewhere or, the lads UK Docks apply for the new jobs in Sunderland. I doubt that will happen though, there are very few doing this kind of work now.

I’m not interested in arguing about semantics. The article is about an engineering firm based in the Port. I didn’t realise I needed to relay this information again in my post. And your last sentence is exactly my point.

 

[vinegar hill]

Every time there’s positivity about something regarding Sunderland, on come the naysayers, it never takes long.

 

[Jarra Dicka]

I heard it was closing as Seaham has better facilities.

 

[Yankee Mackem]

I heard it was closing as Seaham has better facilities.

Moving the stevedores to Slut Island I heard.

 

[citybythesea]

Every time there’s positivity about something regarding Sunderland, on come the naysayers, it never takes long.

<<<This.

There's lots of positive things happening in Sunderland. It's on the up

 

[Bakerlooline]

I’m not interested in arguing about semantics. The article is about an engineering firm based in the Port. I didn’t realise I needed to relay this information again in my post. And your last sentence is exactly my point.

I didn’t realise you were an absolute cock, with a pompous attitude. Otherwise I would not have replied in the first place. Lesson learned. Tit.

 

[---Nemo---]

I've posted about the potential of our (Northern) ports and freeports a few times since the referendum. The potential to drag industry and jobs north is there if we handle this correctly.

 

[Goat Eyes]

I didn’t realise you were an absolute cock, with a pompous attitude. Otherwise I would not have replied in the first place. Lesson learned. Tit.

Haway @Kevj

 

[Kevj]

Haway @Kevj

Ooh, you little shit stirrer

I’d read his post earlier and it made me chuckle. I wasn’t going to respond to 2am pissed ramblings.