PD Ports, which introduced portcentric logistics into the UK, says the concept is now well established and moving into its second phase.

The port company owns Teesport, Hartlepool and various other port facilities.

Helene Lyall, sales and marketing manager of PD Ports, told delegates to the Freight By Water Conference in Middlesbrough that not only the port company's larger customers, such as Tesco and Walmart, benefitted from the strategy.