Fanfare and flourish as London Gateway welcomes its first commercial caller

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While the first commercial call of a containership at London Gateway was certainly accompanied by the requisite fanfare – top executives from port owner DP World and shipping line MOL flew in for the occasion, accompanied by a marching band – the port’s team sought to downplay suggestions that the facility was now ready to begin competing for a place on the world’s largest shipping strings.

“We have built London Gateway to handle the largest ships in the world, but we ...