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Forth Ports puts GBP 5m into Grangemouth deal
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EDINBURGH-based Forth Ports has approved a massive GBP 5million
investment in Scotland's largest container port which will see its
capacity double in size.
The company's terminal container port in Grangemouth will be able
to cope with some 200,000 containers a year after the ambitious
upgrade.
The increase in container volumes at the port, by more than 10 per
cent a year over the last few years, was enough to encourage Forth
Ports chief executive Charles Hammond to splash out w...
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