Solent Freeport supports six projects in the Solent region.

Solent Freeport, which has sites all around Southampton and Portsmouth, says it will spend £6.7 million of the government funding on a range of projects to 'address infrastructure gaps in freeport locations and create the right physical conditions to encourage private sector investment'.

The projects include:

• Building a Freeports Customs Zone at Portsmouth International Port


• Designing a 112-acre Navigator Quarter next to Southampton Airport for research, manufacturing and industrial facilities


• Demolition, earthworks and road improvements at Marchwood Port
  Plans to increase the number of containers transported by rail with a new HGV facility at Redbridge


• Road improvements around Totton and Dibden


• Commercial developments at an industrial and manufacturing business park at Havant.

Posted 03/02/2025 14:50