Profitable know-how investor and skilled within the metals and mining sector Roger Maggs MBE, has been chosen by the bid companions because the chair of the Celtic Freeport consortium.
The consortium is placing collectively a transformational bid for a freeport masking the ports of Milford Haven and Port Talbot to create a inexperienced funding hall that spans clear vitality developments and innovation belongings, gasoline terminals, an influence station, heavy engineering and the metal trade throughout south-west Wales.
Roger Maggs will work with the consortium companions – Related British Ports (ABP), Neath Port Talbot Council, Pembrokeshire County Council and the Port of Milford Haven – to assist current the case for the Celtic Freeport to the UK and Welsh governments. The bid will probably be summited on 24 November 2022, with the profitable bid introduced in early spring 2023.
“I’m delighted to hitch such a robust bid group. The Celtic Freeport gives the potential to generate vital financial affect and can present a large-scale enhance to Wales’ important pathway to a greener and extra sustainable future,”
commented Roger Maggs MBE, chair of the Celtic Freeport bid consortium.
He added:
“The Celtic Freeport will catapult Wales’ path to a cleaner future throughout goal sectors together with floating offshore wind and the hydrogen financial system to sustainable fuels, cleaner metal and low carbon logistics.
“ instance is floating offshore wind. With a freeport, we will safe first-mover benefit for Wales, which can create a inexperienced trade with a considerable variety of new manufacturing jobs. The event proposed on the ports of Pembroke Dock and Port Talbot will embed this trade regionally to create a renewable vitality legacy, which has real world export potential.”
Roger Maggs MBE has had a 27-year profession at Alcan Aluminium, with plenty of world senior postings, together with three vice presidencies at Alcan’s world headquarters in Montreal Quebec. In 1994, he co-founded Celtic Home, a Canadian enterprise capital fund. Most just lately, Maggs has been chair of the Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone and chair of the Canadian public know-how firm Sandvine. He’s at the moment co-chair of the Worldwide Conference Centre Wales. Maggs was born in Newport and grew up in Carmarthenshire.
