Britain's second largest group of ports, Peel Ports, is strategically located to serve the whole of the United Kingdom...
...five major gateways handling a broad spectrum of international trade amounting to more than 65 million tonnes of cargo a year.

Medway Ports

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Port of Sheerness and Chatham Docks

Medway Ports owns 27 navigable miles of the River Medway in Kent, from its mouth at Sheerness to Allington Lock and is the Port Authority for the river and its approaches.

The Port of Sheerness offers deep water facilities to a range of niche trades. Nearly 700,000 tonnes a year of fresh produce are moved through Sheerness from all corners of the globe, in breakbulk reefer ships and increasingly in containers. Sheerness is one of the UK's major gateways for trade vehicles, accommodating nearly 350,000 a year on more than 250 acres of specialist, secure storage. The Port also moves almost half a million tonnes of forest products and more than 300,000 tonnes of general cargo each year. Chatham Docks, also part of Medway Ports, handles a strong mix of cargoes including forest products, steel and scrap metal amounting to more than 1 million tonnes a year.

In 2005, Medway Ports added LNG – Liquefied Natural Gas – to Peel Ports' diverse list of cargoes. Approval has already been given for expansion of the National Grid Transco terminal on the north bank of the Medway to increase annual capacity to 10 million tonnes of LNG – 12% of Britain's current demand for the gas.

Visit the Medway Ports website