UK supermarket chain Asda has signed a deal with PD Teesport (part of PD Ports) to develop a new £20m (US$35.3m) import centre at Teesport, near Middlesbrough, that will create 300 jobs.
The deep-sea container facility will help ease congestion in southern container ports like Felixstowe and Southampton and provide Asda with an international logistics operation in the Northeast for the first time.
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Asda estimates it will save two million road miles a year by shipping 70% of its distribution direct to Teesport rather than delivering it to southern ports then transporting it by road to its northern based distribution centres.
