Solent Freeport will use its slice of a £25 million UK government funding cake to support six projects in the Solent region.

Solent Freeport, which has sites all around Southampton and Portsmouth, says it will spend £6.7 million of the government funding on a range of projects to 'address infrastructure gaps in freeport locations and create the right physical conditions to encourage private sector investment'.

The proejcts include:

• Building a Freeports Customs Zone at Portsmouth International Port
• Designing a 112-acre Navigator Quarter next to Southampton Airport for research, manufacturing and industrial facilities
• Demolition, earthworks and road improvements at Marchwood Port
• Plans to increase the number of containers transported by rail with a new HGV facility at Redbridge
• Road improvements around Totton and Dibden
• Commercial developments at an industrial and manufacturing business park at Havant

Solent Freeport is one of eight freeports in England, which also include Teeside, Humber, Liverpool City Region, Freeport East (in East Anglia), Thames, Plymouth & South Devon and East Midlands (an airport).

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