News / Portsmouth is a port looking to diversify as Brexit approaches

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Brexit continues to cloud the UK, but amid the uncertainty Portico Shipping, which operates the port of Portsmouth, is looking to diversify operations.  

Until recently, the port’s main business had been fruit, in particular bananas – it handles some 50% of the total consumed in the UK.   

“Thirty million bananas a week from the Caribbean, South Africa,and South America,” operations director Steve Williams told The Loadstar on the sidelines of Multimodal this week.  

“Until 16 months ago, our containerised business was purely fruit. Now though, we are trying to get the split ...