London Thamesport

It is located on the Isle of Grain, in the Medway unitary authority district of the English county of Kent.

From 1953,[1] over ten million tons of crude oil were processed annually on the 4 km2 (1.5 sq mi) site.

Trains full of segments left the factory each day, travelling on the Hundred of Hoo Railway on the island before taking a circuitous route avoiding steep gradients before arriving at Shakespeare Cliff.

In 1987 British Gas submitted plans to use 0.87 km2 (0.34 sq mi) of the disused refinery site as a container port.

[4] By the first half of 1990, the repayment of c. £100 million risk capital put the operator company Thamesport Ltd. into administration.

In February 1998 Rutland Partners LLP sold their interest in MTS holdings Ltd and small navigation company "Maritime Haulage" for £112 million to the Hutchison Whampoa Group.

Hutchison Whampoa also operates two other important ports on the British east coast, Felixstowe and Harwich.

Although site constraints limit the maximum possible length of the quay to only 750 metres (2,500 ft), there is considerable scope for future development at London Thamesport.

The majority of this brownfield site (a former oil refinery) remains undeveloped, and Thamesport Interchange has outline planning permission to build 5,000,000 square feet (465,000 m2) of logistics related facilities.

In December 2013, the Airports Commission, chaired by Sir Howard Davies, excluded these proposals from its short-list of possible recommendations.

Two British rail freight companies – DB Cargo UK and Freightliner – operated container services to Thamesport.