The main 5 ports are:

• Hull – the home of the UK’s only offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing site.
• Immingham – currently the UK’s largest port, by volume.
• Grimsby – the home of the UK’s Operating & Maintenance facilities to run a lot of the turbines in the North Sea.
• Killingholme – one of the largest ports in the UK for importing and exporting cars.
• Goole – the most inland sea port in the UK.

The Humber also has a number of specialised ports

Hull has a direct ferry service into Zeebrugge and Rotterdam which only takes about 13 hours. These ferries carry both passenger and cargo.

The three airports in the region are for both freight and passengers and have a number of routes in the UK, Europe and to other parts of the world. Humberside Airport has become a major part of the offshore industry with workers being transported to oil rigs and other offshore activities from the airport. Navigate to Humberside Airport. Doncaster Sheffield International is one of the newest airports in the UK and is growing in both passenger numbers and the amount of freight passing through the airport. Navigate to Doncaster Sheffield International. Leeds Bradford Airport has the most flights out of the area and has a number of flights outside of the EU. Navigate to Leeds Bradford International. All the three airports have plans to expand and develop what they can offer customers.

The region is well linked to the UK’s road network with all areas of the region having a major road nearby. Hull and the north bank of the Humber has the A63 linking to the M62 and the south bank has the M180 and A180 serving the ports in North East Lincolnshire and industry in the area. These roads lead to the M1 and M62 which allow easy access to the south and west of the UK. The area around the major cities of Leeds and Sheffield are well linked to the M1 and A1 which are among the most important motorways in the UK. Navigate to road page.

The region has good rail connections with the rest of the UK, both for passengers and freight. All the major cities and towns in the area have multiple daily services to London and other major cities, such as Manchester and Birmingham. The main sea ports in the region all have a connection with the rail network to transport freight throughout the UK, for example, Hull and Immingham transport Biomass (an alternative to coal) to the Drax power station by rail. Navigate to rail page.

Over the last few years, the Humber ports have started to work and become an important location in the renewables sector and a good example of this is Siemens Gamesa in Hull who build the wind turbine blades for the wind farms in the North Sea. The Siemens Gamesa site is where they also bring all the components together for the journey out into the North Sea ready for being put up. The North Sea has a number of on-going and planned wind farm projects and Siemens Gamesa is in a fantastic location to make the blades for a number of these projects.

The area is becoming a main location for the renewable industry with Siemens Gamesa and other renewables companies locating in the area. This means the area needs new types of skills and training and local education organisations have started to set up courses that focus on the renewables sector and engineering. LIDO has compiled a list of all University and college courses which relate to the sector. (Click here to open course finder in a new tab)

As well as courses aimed at the renewables sector, Universities and colleges in the area have a wide range of courses from Business Management to agriculture.

The area has a number of opportunities of apprenticeships and ‘in work’ training like HCF Catch and other training organisations which cover a wide range of skills from Offshore to a Caravan factory. Examples of other training organisations in the Humber are HOTA and HETA who do apprenticeships and short courses aimed at specific skills.

There is a comparison builder to compare different ports, years and items and to be shown in an easily understandable chart. Both the chart builder and the comparison builder work with data provided by UK Trade Info which are part of the government body involved with trade.

Throughout LIDO there is data and information relating to all areas of logistics in the Humber such as:

• The measurements and statistics of quays at the ports
• Lists of companies operating in the region such as rail freight companies
• A list of all flights departing the region from the 3 local airports

Another major section of LIDO is the publications page. The Publications page is a library of reports, articles and other publications about the Humber in regards to logistics, economics, industry to name a few. There is an option to search by your own words or a list of tags has been provided to show publications on a specific topic. The publications list is always being updated and new articles are being added regularly.

LIDO is always being updated with the latest data and information available and we welcome any suggestions on what data is needed by our users.