Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour

There was dredging and subsequent beneficial reuse of approximately 1,600,000 m3 of sand to provide 17.6 ha of land for future port development.

The new plans featured a smaller but eminently effective Outer Harbour able to accommodate larger vessels but at a cost which made the prospects for funding its construction far more attainable.

The Polaris, which sank in February 1973, had lain on the seabed about 100 metres from the shoreline in the middle of the outer harbour site.

That the new deep water outer harbour was constructed during the height of the world economic crash was an achievement in itself but the changed economy at the time of opening in 2009 – with surplus capacity in other ports like Felixstowe – meant that the original plans for a schedule of two ro-pax ferries operating a thrice-daily service[4] were not going to be delivered in the short term.

In late April 2009, the northern quay was substantially complete with fenders, mooring bollards and gantry crane rails installed.

In the short-term the failure of PSA's container cranes to attract trade drew copious negative coverage in the media and it led to claims that the outer harbour was a complete "white elephant".

[7] In July 2016 Peel Ports Great Yarmouth welcomed the largest vessel to enter the Yarmouth Outer Harbour – at 200 metres in length and weighing in at 64,000 tonnes – the Glovis Splendor unloaded a cargo of 3,300 cars destined for UK car dealerships.

[8] In November 2016 Peel Ports embarked on a major strengthening of the outer harbour quays – to the seaward side of South Beach Parade to prepare for the construction of giant turbines from March 2017 as part of the multimillion-pound Galloper and East Anglia One windfarm projects.