There are now four specialist teams based at Liverpool, Immingham, Felixstowe and Southampton.

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About 200 members of the Unite union demonstrated outside the neighbouring Total Lindsey and Conoco Phillips refineries in Immingham on Monday.

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The company has signed a deal with Drax Power Station to handle shipments of wood pellets into Immingham, Hull and Goole over a 15-year period.

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Why transport all this steel by road to Immingham, or Grimsby from Sheffield, when a massive port is right next to a profit making factory.

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"This investment at Hull, Immingham and Goole looks set to secure the Humber region's position as a centre of excellence for the development of the low carbon energy future".

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The tree, which is usually 20 to 25 m (70 ft) in height and anything between 50 and 60 years old, is then shipped free-of-charge across the North Sea to Immingham by DFDS Tor Line.

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