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Enterprise Zones

Welcome to North East Lincolnshire’s Enterprise Zone; 189ha of developable land across 6 sites.

Come and join globally recognised companies such as Orsted, DFDS, BASF and Young’s Seafood and benefit from our strong clusters in renewables, food processing, ports & logistics and Chemicals & process industries. Enjoy the fastest broadband speed in the UK, leading infrastructure, and the UK’s largest port coupled with site specific financial incentives and ongoing investor support. We’re even investing £20m in our sites to ensure they are fully serviced sites ready for immediate development.

Site Name	Size	Incentive
Stallingborough Interchange	64ha	ECA
Humber Gate	21ha	ECA
Imm-Port	21ha	BRD
Queens Road	10ha	BRD
Portlink 180	28ha	ECA
Moody Lane	45ha	BRD

Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECA)
Business Rate Discount (BRD)

We are open for you to invest, relocate and grow your business in North East Lincolnshire.

To see a map of all of our sites please see the map on the right of this page.

Key Facts

The seafood industry is worth £1.8Bn to North East Lincolnshire
We have leading research and innovation in food technologies at Grimsby Institute
Slipways at Port of Grimsby East provide access for vessels of up to 1200 tonnes
Grimsby handles more than 500,000 imported vehicles each year
40,000 international shipping movements each year in Humber Estuary
12% of the UK cargo is handled by Grimsby and Immingham
Immingham has 8 roro berths, handling more than 30 sailings each week
Grimsby's smoked fish has EU Protected Status (PGI) in recognition of its long history of curing
Freshney Place £12-million leisure complex including cinema and restaurants
Immingham's modern rail infrastructure handles more than 260 rail freight movements a week
120 companies in process industries around the Humber
Stagecoach investing £4-million in 28 new buses
From Grimsby there are 40 million customers within a 3 hour drive.
The state-of-the-art Humber International Terminals (HIT) 1 and 2 can handle up to 10 million tonnes of coal each year
As ‘Europe’s Food Town’, we have around 500 food-related companies
Grimsby is the UK's seafood capital with more than 100 processing related companies
10,000 sq m general warehousing and open storage at Humber International Terminal
£8m CATCH training centre provides unique training for process industries
20,000 sq m of high quality bulk warehousing and open storage at Immingham Bulk Park
Our ports handle 20% of the UK's dry bulk cargo - more than any other port complex
Slipways at Grimsby Fish Docks provide access for vessels of up to 800 tonnes
Weekly & daily shipping routes from Scandinavia, Iceland & Europe into Grimsby & Immingham
£14.5million is being spent on the Grimsby Docks Flood Risk Management scheme
Local workforce - 350,000 within a 45 minute drive
Around half of the UK offshore wind market is located in the southern North Sea
£462m annual spend by visitors to North East Lincolnshire each year
HIT handles solid fuel destined for power generators and is able to accommodate vessels carrying cargoes up to 130,000 tonnes
4,000 offshore wind turbines planned for the North Sea
2015 - Grimsby hosted the World Seafood Congress
It's 200 miles to Edinburgh, London and Rotterdam
Connected to HIT by an extensive conveyor system is the 40 ha storage yard capable of holding 1 million tonnes
40+ specialist engineering companies in North East Lincolnshire
The Port of Grimsby handles around 1 million tonnes each year
We host one of the largest concentration of cold storage facilities in Europe
500 firms involved in environmental technologies
Humberside International Airport is a 20 minute drive from our ports
Destination for more than 30 species from 5 continents including seafood from around the UK
Grimsby is located just seven miles from the open sea
International companies, including BASF, Novartis, Cristal Global and P66 located in Northern Lincolnshire
£5.6m Humber Seafood Institute at Europarc to support the UK seafood industry
14% of all sea traffic with all international ports is handled by Grimsby and Immingham
Grimsby and Immingham handle more cargo than any other port complex in the UK
Multi-million pound office & retail development on Cartergate, Grimsby due to complete in 2016
Hosts of the Armed Forces Day National Event 2016 which saw 180,000 people attending
Local workforce - 90,000 people within a 15 minute catchment
There's a food-trained workforce of more than 5K locally
Grimsby supplies the vast majority of seafood for UK's retail, food service & consumer markets
30-40K passenger journeys made each year by platform workers travelling from the heliport to and from 57 rigs in the southern North Sea
New Holiday Inn Express hotel in Wellowgate created 40 new jobs
Modern BRC, MSC Accredited Fish Market in Grimsby
Immingham is less than 24 hours from a European market of 170 million people
Invested £4.3m from the Governments Local Sustainable Transport Fund to improve Grimsby town centre
More than 9.6m visitors come to North East Lincolnshire each year
3 wind farms, ~230 turbines, ~£20m investment in facilities constructed or in the immediate pipeline around the Port of Grimsby
62.6 million tonnes of cargo came through NEL ports last year
50+ years of process industries in North East Lincolnshire
Folklore suggests Grimsby was named after the Dane, Grim, who settled here 1000 years ago
We are at the centre of a major concentration of process industries, which across the Humber employ ~15,000 people in 120 companies
Our ports handle 15% of the UK's ro-ro cargo, second only to Dover
More than 300 new jobs have been created so far in the renewables sector in Grimsby
14,000 advanced engineering companies in Yorkshire and Humber
Immingham handles around 55 million tonnes each year

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