The think-tank, based in the north east of England, has created a graphic including a free port zone, a land border and a customs border.<\/p>\n
In its report, named The Great North Free Port<\/em>, five key recommendations are made: departing from the Customs Union; establishing a \u201cpilot\u201d free port at PD Ports\u2019 Teesport; having the government incorporate this facility into its Industrial Strategy; integrating this port with local education and training partners; and attracting support of devolved partners.<\/p>\n Using the economic impact of free trade zones in the US, the think-tank expects that a free port at Teesport would create an extra 1,300 jobs.<\/p>\n Policy North is to send the report to government in a bid to create a Teesside free port.<\/p>\n In the document\u2019s foreword, Simon Clarke, UK Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, said: \u201cIt is a combination of Teesside\u2019s economic potential and the need for well-paying, skilled jobs that means a free port on Teesside is such an exciting, transformational proposition.\u201d<\/p>\n Those supporting the idea of a free port in Teesside include MP for Redcar Anna Turley and Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen.<\/p>\n Those who back the concept say it could make \u00a350m for the economy.<\/p>\n In Prime Minister\u2019s Questions, Mr Clarke asked UK Prime Minister Theresa May to \u201clook seriously\u201d at the idea and said it would place \u201crocket boosters under the economy on Teesside\u201d.<\/p>\n The Prime Minister, who visited Teesside in August last year, responded: \u201cWhen I visited Ben Houchen and visited Teesport, this was one of the proposals they did put to me.<\/p>\n \u201cI know my Right Honourable friend the Chancellor has confirmed recently [that] we do remain open to ideas that could drive growth and provide benefits to the UK and its people, and so we will keep all these options under consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Think-tank Policy North has offered a vision of what a free port in Teesside, located in the north east of England in the UK, following on from calls to grant Teesside free port status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}