Sep 30, 2014 · Newport, Swansea, and Barry followed suit. Neat basins of water, lined with cranes, and wrapped around with railway lines, became a key feature of Wales’s coastal cities.

This article lists the ports and harbours present in Wales. Ports form an essential and important resource for the economy of Wales and are involved in the movement of freight and people …

Sep 26, 2013 · Wales – a modern maritime nation? A Welsh tramp steamer loading Welsh coal at a Welsh port - The Cardiff-owned Radnor at Barry Docks in 1925. .... Wales has a long and …

It possesses major storage and refining capacity (the Pembroke refinery has a capacity of well over 200,000 bbl/d, third in the UK after Fawley and Lindsey). The port is UK’s top energy port …

Known as the Prince of Wales Dock, it was completed in 1881 and extended to its present size in 1898. Despite a sharp decline in the local copper trade towards the end of the nineteenth …

From their earliest days, until 1791, when the first Swansea Harbour Act was passed, and the Swansea Harbour Trustees came into being, the Harbour and Port of Swansea had been …

Swansea Docks is the collective name for several docks in Swansea, Wales, which are immediately south-east of Swansea city centre. In the mid-19th century, the port was exporting …

The River Tawe being navigable to sea traffic for some three miles into the South Wales coalfield made its banks prime sites for industry. The establishment of the Swansea Harbour Trust …

Swansea is the most westerly of ABP’s South Wales ports, with the capacity to handle vessels of up to 30,000dwt and offers berths and facilities for most types of cargo. The port has …

This is our overarching vision for our network of ports in South Wales – Swansea, Port Talbot, Barry, Cardiff and Newport. Here, we show how our ports have a major role to play in helping …