Value Added Manufacturing

Value Added Manufacturing connected to Hull & Humber's Ports complex offers an immense area of opportunity for the city region. Despite the decline of the manufacturing industry in Europe, Hull & Humber still has important strengths in this field and the relative importance from a UK perspective has even increased.

Hull & Humber has the largest ports complex in the UK yet most manufactuing happens away from the port. There’s a real opportunity to create significant new business opportunities by using some of the available land around the ports to establish manufacturing facilities, for part of the production process to take place here when raw materials come into the UK via the Hull & Humber Ports. Products can then be  transported either across the UK or back out to Europe.

The city region offers key assets in terms of workforce, its cost base and logistics specialisms and there’s a significant opportunity to market Hull & Humber as an entry point to the UK. Hull & Humber can also serve as access point for UK products to central Europe via the Rotterdam link.

Hull & Humber has a very good value proposition concerning site availability, particularly with many sites adjacent to the port and from a transportation perspective, for companies serving the UK market and taking into account increasing congestion in the South, Hull & Humber is a real option for investors.