At the Partnership's annual reception, David Ralph commented “The Haven Gateway should no longer rely on service-sector jobs to support ever increasing housing growth and in-migration of skills to deliver its economic growth. The sub-region must up-skill its own communities, facilitate new business start-ups and rise to the challenge of unprecedented opportunities in real growth sectors if it is to recover effectively from recession.”
A group of leading business people from the ports and logistics industry, based in Suffolk and North Essex, met with local authority officers and councillors yesterday to discuss the future growth of the sector and to undertake an assessment of the infrastructure and employment land needed to ensure the sector is adequately supported.