Watch our latest Business Talk as host Ian Farrar chats to the Port of Tyne’s Chief Executive Matt Beeton.
The Port of Tyne is one of UK’s most innovative and efficient deep-sea ports handling cargoes across five continents. It is the UK’s second largest car export port; it handles 40% of the UK’s raw tea imports and is one of Europe’s biggest handlers of wood pellets. As well as being one of the UK’s most popular cruise and ferry ports, the Port of Tyne is also home to the Maintenance and Operations Base of Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
Find out more about the Port of Tyne’s 200-acre Tyne Clean Energy Park, and the Port’s latest offshore wind customer – Van Oord. Matt discusses the Port’s collaboration across a range of sectors and the Port’s aims to be an innovator of environmental sustainability and an engine for long term prosperity and job creation, that’s puts people and community at the heart of what it does.
A lively Business Talk with some great questions from our audience.
