Grimsby Fishdock agrees O&M wind farm deal with Centrica

Team Humber member Grimsby Fishdock Enterprises has agreed a 25-year lease with Centrica to enable the energy group to build an operation and maintenance base to serve its wind farms in the Greater Wash. When the facility is completed by the end of this year it is will have capacity for more than 100...

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Port director is hailed green champion

Associated British Ports’ port director, Hull and Goole, Matt Jukes has been honoured as ‘The Yorkshire Post Green Champion for 2011’ at the Yorkshire Post Environment awards. The annual awards ceremony aims to recognise and celebrate the best of the important environmental work being undertaken across the region.

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Partnerships key to renewables jobs success

Organisations from across the city have come together to form a skills partnership to develop skills training packages and raise the skills levels and therefore employability of local people, as progress towards an agreement to build a wind turbine manufacturing facility in the city gathers pace. The partnership, led by Hull City Council working...

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Law firm is region’s top-ranked for Legal Experts

Nine lawyers at Andrew Jackson have been recommended in the latest edition of Legal Experts 2011, a leading legal directory. The firm has received more recommendations than any other firm in the Hull and Humber region, with its lawyers identified by researchers as being highly recommended in 10 areas of practice and described as...

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Law firm does business down under

The managing partner of pan-Humber law firm Andrew Jackson has recently participated in a partners’ conference in New Zealand with Tauranga-based law firm Cooney Lees Morgan, which has been selected as New Zealand’s best mid-sized law firm in the 2010 Law Awards. The conference was organised by Simon Tupman, a former solicitor from Scarborough,...

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Team Humber trade mission helps MTL secure Norwegian wind contract

An inward trade mission hosted by Team Humber Marine Alliance and Enterprise Europe Yorkshire has helped Alliance member MTL Group secure a multimillion pound deal for work on an offshore wind farm. MTL Group, the Rotherham-based project manufacturer, is to supply 97 boat landing systems to Aker Solutions, the Norwegian energy group, for Nordsee...

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