NEW BORDER CONTROL POSTS WILL CREATE UP TO 80 JOBS
MPS WELCOME GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR PORT PROJECTS
CONSTRUCTION of two border control posts on the South Bank creating up to 80 jobs has been welcomed by the area’s MPs. Associated British Ports has received funding to build one of the control posts at Immingham’s East Gate.
The other will be at Killingholme’s Humber Sea Terminal.
Each will employ between 30 and 40 staff checking imports and are planned to be operational within six months.
Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers welcomed the government funding and said the Immingham post will cost £13 million and the Killingholme post £24 million.
It is part of a package of more than £200 million at ports around the UK.
The Humber ports handle some of the nation’s biggest cargoes and tonnes of seafood come in daily to Immingham and Killingholme to supply Grimsby’s huge food production factories.
There will be checks on controlled goods like alcohol and tobacco as well as stringent checks for smuggling. The new posts will be run in conjunction with Border Force and HM Revenue and Customs.
Mr Vickers said he and Grimsby MP Lia Nici had been lobbying for the funding to ensure the smooth flow of goods needed by the food
This will provide much
investment and safeguard jobs at the
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production industry. He said he met with the Icelandic ambassador last year as concerns were raised about the imports of seafood.
The MP said: “It is a good news for the area. Lia and I have been pushing for this for sometime in order to secure the vital import of seafoods. It is important that foods and animal products are kept at the highest standards and there will be improved checks at the two ports in order to maintain our highest standards of food production.”
He said all the imports need to have their certification checked and they needed to be handled and checked in “a proper and speedy” manner.
The posts will be the legal responsibility of North East Lincolnshire Council as the port health authority. “This will provide much investment and safeguard jobs at the ports and this is vital for our seafood processing sector,” Mr Vickers added. Dafydd Williams, head of policy, communications and economic development (Humber) at Associated British Ports, told the Grimsby
Martin Vickers, Cleethorpes MP.
Telegraph: “ABP have received funding to build a new Border Control Post just outside the East Gate of the Port of Immingham.
“We are working quickly to ensure the facility is built and fully operational by July 1st.”
Lia Nici, MP, said the posts will employ between 30 and 40 staff. “It makes the Humber ports more important to our trade,” she said.
Martin Vickers
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