LOCATION
Cardiff
CDF
44th
IMPORT VALUE RANK 2018
£160M
IMPORT VALUE 2018
33rd
EXPORT VALUE RANK 2018
£350M
EXPORT VALUE 2018
Insufficient data for an indicative price
Located on the north side of the Severn Estuary, connected to the rail network, and within easy reach of the M4 motorway, the port has expertise in the handling of containers, steel, forest products, and bulk cargoes, handling around 1.7 million tonnes annually.
There are extensive storage and dedicated handling facilities for a variety of liquid bulk cargoes available at three terminals.
Transit and distribution shed capacity amounts nearly 40,000 sq m. There is open hard-standing storage of over 12 hectares, with a further 10.6 hectares managed by an independent terminal operator. There is over 5,300 sq m of chilled, ambient and frozen warehousing space with computerised stock-control.
Nearby there are a number of third party logistics (3PL) providers based along the M4 - at Pontyclun, Bridgend, Crosskeys and Newport. Stowga have found short term pallet storage for several clients recently in and around Cardiff.
TOP 10 IMPORTED COMMODITIES BY VALUE 2018
Rank | Description | Total |
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1 | Alcohols, phenols, phenol-alcohols, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives more info | £60M |
2 | Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (other than crude); preparations, n.e.s., containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils more info | £52M |
3 | Natural gas, whether or not liquefied more info | £22M |
4 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, and tube or pipe fittings, of iron or steel more info | £8.6M |
5 | Iron and steel bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections (including sheet piling) more info | £6M |
6 | Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, clad, plated or coated more info | £4M |
7 | Other crude minerals more info | £3.2M |
8 | Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, not clad, plated or coated more info | £3.2M |
9 | Articles of apparel, of textile fabrics, whether or not knitted or crocheted, n.e.s. more info | £1.7M |
10 | Women's or girls' coats, capes, jackets, suits, trousers, shorts, shirts, dresses and skirts, underwear, nightwear and similar articles of textile fabrics, not knitted or crocheted (other than those of subgroup 845.2) more info | £1.5M |
TOP 10 EXPORTED COMMODITIES BY VALUE 2018
Rank | Description | Total |
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1 | Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (other than crude); preparations, n.e.s., containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils more info | £220M |