UK’s first new freeports ‘open for business’
Humber, Teesside and Thames are the first three special economic zones in the freeports package of eight locations, the UK Treasury confirmed last month
Thames Freeport says a new range of financial incentives for businesses, including ‘being part of a customs zone, which will enable businesses to continue to have low-friction trade processes with the EU and global markets’. Humber and Teesside freeports also understood to be up and running this month