Medway Harbourmaster to be removed

[Celica]

In fairness, with London Gateway opening just across the river, the country as a whole is not losing port facilities. Chatham and Sheerness are not particularly well served for transport links either. As a Medway sailor, the only cargo traffic we've seen over the last several years are sand and gravel to the docks between Chatham and Rochester, coal to Kingsnorth, Gas to the Grain terminal and some cars to the Queenborough terminal. Kingsnorth is closed, the sand and gravel still seems to be flowing and I guess the gas will too since the storage and pumping facilities are all on Grain and will cost a lot to relocate. Not sure about the traffic into Queenborough.

Actually Sheerness and Chatham are only both 10 minutes from a motorway so transport links are not that bad!
What we are losing are small ports that we can never re-use due to being built on or silting up!
The rest of the world use their natural assets as did our ancesters but unfortunately we seem to like grid locked roads!

 

[oldgit]

It would appear it is back office staff that are being deleted at Garrison Pt.
VTS will continue as before.
Spoken to a good source who has not denied that a soon to be published MAIB report comments very unfavorably on certain PEEL Port staff with regards to lax scrutiny of the safety paperwork of commercial vessels operating within port.

 

[maby]

Interesting terminology - deleting staff - remind me to not invite you to write my next HR response!