Port of Dover cargo facilities
One of the top four UK handling locations by tonnage, the Cargo Terminal at the Port of Dover is unrivalled in terms of its strategic location, efficiency and competitive pricing.
It's a potent combination that makes the Port extremely popular with many of the leading European freight carriers.
Port crane hire
The Port of Dover also offers a reliable and competitively priced crane hire facility.
Port facilities
The Port of Dover offers a wide range facilities including 24-hour access, no locks or tidal restrictions and a minimum quay water depth of 8.5 metres. As a result, vessels can berth at any time - day or night - taking as little as 40 minutes.
The Terminal is also ISO 9001 accredited and offers the following facilities which ensure fast, efficient and flexible turnarounds:
- A single, main 220m berth, plus two further 200m berths
- Three mobile harbour cranes, full forklift and pallet truck fleets, container handlers, tugmaster units plus four-pallet spreaders
- 13,000 sq. metres of ambient, temperature-controlled storage capacity
- All-weather outloading for up to 7,500 pallets
- Two-pallet and four-pallet capacity fruit cages.
Excellent road and sea links
Dover Cargo Terminal is ideally situated for fast shipments of perishable goods by both sea and road.
Lying at the closest geographical point to the European continent and close to all of the Channel's main shipping lanes, the Terminal offers minimum deviation for reeferships and fast onward journeys to all other parts of Europe.
Dover is also directly connected to the M2 and M20 motorways which inter-connect to the M25 London orbital route, giving fast and smooth access to central London as well as all other parts of the UK.
Port agency and stevedoring services
Ship agency and stevedoring services are currently provided at the Dover Cargo Terminal by George Hammond plc.
Visit the George Hammond website.
More information
For further details on the range of services and facilities available at the Port of Dover Cargo Terminal, please contact us.