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Global Business Location

The region offers:

• An internationally competitive business location
• Proximity to the energy market
• Experienced and developing energy supply chain
• Complementary ports and easily accessible airports
• World leading universities
• High value added engineering skills
• Closeness to Europe

No other region has such a portfolio of energy assets and prospects set in an

internationally competitive business location.  

The region is at the hub of the energy industry and perfectly positioned to reach out to the rest of Europe and beyond.

 

Ports

The range of ports – most with deepwater capacity and easy access – have available quayside and development space and energy industry expertise.

They include Felixstowe, Great Yarmouth, Harwich, King’s Lynn, London Gateway, Lowestoft and Tilbury.

 

Airports

Airports at London Stansted, London Luton, Norwich and Cambridge are all easily reached and feature cross-UK and regular European routes. Major international airports Heathrow, Gatwick and London City are within two hours drive of most energy centres in the region.

 

Education

Four world leading universities are in the region: Cambridge University, Cranfield, University of East Anglia, University of Essex.

 

Skills

There is a long established, experienced, flexible and rapidly developing supply chain for energy which can draw on international research and development hubs. There are also high value added engineering skills at bases like Group Lotus, Hethel Engineering Centre and the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence.

 

Healthy economy

The region has a prospering economy with a turnover of £110bn a year contributing around 10% of the UK’s GDP.