The practical realities behind sustainability
By John Winn, Chairman, Haven Gateway private business forum Regular readers of this column – indeed, possibly both of them – will be fully conversant with the pervasive concept of ‘sustainability’....
View ArticleSpreading the LCFD message
By Lisa Brazier, Low Carbon Freight Dividend project manager, Haven Gateway The European Commission’s Transport White Paper, Transport 2050 roadmap to a Single European Transport Area laid down...
View ArticleBroadband success at the Tendring Hundred Show
The Haven Gateway Partnership and its core supporter BT show-cased “superfast” fibre broadband on Saturday 14 July at the Tendring Hundred Show to give businesses and residents the opportunity to board...
View ArticleInnovation Martlesham joins with Young Rewired State to host the “Festival of...
Innovation Martlesham, the high-tech cluster of ICT companies located at Adastral Park, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Young Rewired State (YRS) to host students for the YRS...
View ArticleHGP Publishes Annual Report & Annual Meeting praises achievements
The Haven Gateway Partnership's Annual Meeting on 24th July, looked back over the year and praised the success of the Partnership and its achievements. Guests had a chance to network before being shown...
View ArticleMoving freight on to the rails
By Lisa Brazier, Low Carbon Freight Dividend project manager, Haven Gateway Use it or lose it! That’s the message from the Low Carbon Freight Dividend team. How often do we hear complaints that there...
View ArticleConference to help put region on cruise map
By David Ralph, chief executive, Haven Gateway Partnership The popularity of cruising, with all its attractions, continues to grow – and not only among those who might be considered ‘traditional’...
View ArticleFred. Olsen Cruise Lines welcomes local Olympic Torch-Bearer, Stewart Bethell
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines was delighted to welcome Olympic Torch-Bearer Stewart Bethell to its Ipswich Headquarters, as part of a 'tour of honour' aroundSuffolk.
View Article‘Like the Curate’s egg – the EU is good in parts’
By John Winn, Chairman, Haven Gateway private business forum EUROPE: ‘Good in parts’ … Those quoted words were (you may remember) how the curate described his boiled egg in his cautious thanks to the...
View Article‘No longer just a 'nice to have’ '
By Lisa Brazier, Low Carbon Freight Dividend project manager, Haven Gateway Whose carbon is it, anyway? If you are not sure whether, when or how to start out on the low-carbon route for your freight,...
View ArticleConference highlights potential for cruises
By David Ralph, chief executive, Haven Gateway The Mayor of Colchester, Christopher Arnold, let us into a secret last week [Tuesday 25 sept] – he doesn’t like cruises. You might wonder how that message...
View ArticleIt's all a question of balance
By Lisa Brazier, Low Carbon Freight Dividend project manager, Haven Gateway Sometimes, public perceptions can take you by surprise. As we move ahead with the Low Carbon Freight Dividend project, our...
View ArticleTry out the bank that simply wants to give
By Lisa Brazier, Low Carbon Freight Dividend project manager, Haven Gateway The ports and logistics sector is a very fast-moving world … but oddly, it can also be a very conservative one. Pressed for...
View ArticleThe good, the bad and the ugly
By David Ralph, chief executive, Haven Gateway On July 18, the Department for Transport announced the good news that major improvements to the A14 north of Cambridge were being added to its programme...
View ArticleGrowth at Innovation Martlesham
Evidence recently presented at the Suffolk Coastal Examination in Public highlighted that the Innovation Martlesham clustering has generated 240 new (non BT) jobs and 26 new companies since 2009 -...
View Article‘Sitting up and taking note’
By Lisa Brazier, Low Carbon Freight Dividend project manager, Haven Gateway Communities and local government minister Baroness Hanham said other ports should ‘sit up and take note’, as she launched the...
View Article‘A new link in the rail freight supply chain’
The unveiling of a plaque at Nuneaton this month was big news for us here in the Haven Gateway! The unveiling ceremony was to mark the completion of the Nuneaton North Chord, a rail flyover which...
View Article‘Offshore wind schemes pose a skills challenge’
By David Ralph, chief executive, Haven Gateway We live in a subregion that has always looked outwards, across the sea, as much as inland for its economic wellbeing and growth. And in the 21st century,...
View Article‘Move from truck to track in 2013’
By Lisa Brazier, Low Carbon Freight Dividend project manager, Haven Gateway New Year, new approach? Perhaps this time last year you gave up wine and joined the gym … but fell by the wayside within a...
View Article‘Harbour’ still one of the finest’
by Stephen Bracewell, CEO, Harwich Haven Authority, and Deputy Chairman, Haven Gateway ‘Harwich being the only safe port between the Thames and the Humber … and when you cannot make Harwich there is...
View Article‘Helping SMEs achieve a brighter shade of green’
By Lisa Brazier, Low Carbon Freight Dividend project manager, Haven Gateway Across all manner of industries, you will find every shade of green. Bright green? The front runners, those companies which...
View ArticleLocalisE project
A project by the University of Essex linking the University with the business community, has been given a cash boost from the Intellectual Property Office to turn its ideas into reality. "LocalisE is a...
View ArticlePort Community Fund reaches £200,000 awards milestone
Felixstowe’s unique Port Community Fund has reached two milestones – it is celebrating its fifth anniversary and, at the same time, it has now awarded 100 grants worth more than £200,000.
View ArticleInternship Opportunity
The Low Carbon Freight Dividend Team is seeking an intern to join their small, friendly team over the summer and possibly beyond.
View ArticleRoute Based Strategy for the A12/A120
The Haven Gateway Partnership today gave a cautious welcome to the publication of a Route Based Strategy by the Department of Transport/Highways Agency, for the A12/A120.
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