Port of Ipswich sets a new grain handling record in 2015/16 harvest year
ABP’s Port of Ipswich, the UK’s number one grain exporting port, has handled more than one million tonnes of grain in the 2015/16 harvest year, a record total for the port and its customers, the company said in its press release.
In the last harvest year, which ended on 30 June, approximately 1,093,481 tonnes of grain were handled, surpassing the previous best year in 2009/10 where 933,000 tonnes passed through the port. It’s also a third increase on last year’s total of 822,448.
In the first half of 2016 alone, 563,760 tonnes of grain were exported from the Port of Ipswich - an increase from the first half of 2015 which saw 368,795 tonnes exported.
In the last 12 months 750 ships have called at the Port of Ipswich, a 17 per cent increase from the previous harvest year.
