Stena Line and Anglesey County Council Announce Bid to Deliver Freeport to North Wales

Stena Line and Anglesey County Council have introduced their intention to submit a significant freeport bid to deliver prosperity and an financial enhance to the area for a few years to return.

In addition to Holyhead port, Stena Line has invested in a significant 213-acre website, which, aligned with quite a lot of websites which can be within the technique of being chosen throughout Anglesey, will result in wide-ranging advantages to many elements of the area’s financial system.

Swedish firm Stena Line is pledging a significant international funding in Holyhead Port, which is the second largest roll-on/roll-off port within the nation and a global gateway to Eire, by way of the Irish Sea and an integral a part of the “land bridge” between Britain and the EU. Providing the quickest, most dependable route to move items between Eire and the Continent. If profitable, the bid is predicted to return Holyhead to pre-Brexit ranges of commerce and cement the realm as a hub for innovation in commerce and clear power, with industry-leading initiatives alongside its shoreline driving the UK in direction of its web zero goals.

The formal bid might be submitted subsequent week to the UK and Welsh Governments. There are already discussions underway with main companies and establishments who’re supporting the bid and are keen on bringing funding to the freeport. The native public at the moment are being requested to unite behind the bid and present their backing for this as soon as in a lifetime alternative for the area by registering their assist at angleseyfreeport.co.uk.

Freeports take away obstacles to commerce and supply easements that simplify how companies can function. Based on preliminary modelling estimates, the freeport would appeal to £1bn of much-needed funding, together with new, high-salary jobs, within the vary of three,500-13,000 throughout the area. The bid, which has the backing of 17 main companies from a variety of sectors and industries, together with Rolls Royce, Bechtel and Final Vitality, together with main academic companions reminiscent of Bangor College, would see the institution of a safe customs zone at Holyhead and different websites on Anglesey with particular tax and tariff preparations designed to draw main home and worldwide funding.

Ian Hampton, Chief Working Officer and Government Director at Stena Line stated:

“Stena Line is set to see a change in funding and financial exercise for the Anglesey neighborhood. We’ve been a part of this neighborhood for over 27 years and wish to see this bid succeed. We all know it may possibly herald transformational funding, drive innovation and create high-skilled, high-wage, high-value jobs. It might probably cement the area as a hub of worldwide buying and selling excellence.

“The freeport has many alternative parts. In addition to manufacturing hub it may possibly turn out to be a world chief in blue innovation, assist the realise the profitable imaginative and prescient of the Vitality Island Programme and we wish to see the institution of World Customs Academy on the Ynys Môn.”

Cllr. Carwyn Jones, Deputy Chief of the Council stated:

“A freeport could be a key pillar in creating long run, sustainable financial growth on the Island and throughout the Area. Too lots of our individuals, notably our younger individuals, really feel they should depart the Island to get first rate jobs and a safe future. We wish that to vary, and it may possibly.

“To do that we want the funding to reinvigorate the native financial system in a long-term and sustainable approach. This may allow communities which can be wholesome, thriving, and affluent, in addition to holding the Welsh language alive on the island. That’s the key to a safe future for the individuals of Anglesey and certainly north Wales.

“We’re notably happy to have an training, expertise and coaching element so outstanding within the bid considering. It’s improbable to have ongoing conversations with Bangor College, a world chief in impact-driven analysis, to determine and tailor academic alternatives to the potential job creation that the Freeport may assist.”

Virginia Crosbie, MP for Ynys Môn, stated:

“As a long-term advocate for the Anglesey freeport, I’m assured that it’s going to ship high-salary, high-skilled jobs to native individuals of their hundreds, in addition to act as a magnet to draw long-term, sustainable funding from companies the world over.

“The Anglesey freeport might be an financial engine room which can entice new funding and ship trendy alternatives for the North Wales financial system, and I’ve been delighted to satisfy with so many native and worldwide companies who’re united of their assist for the freeport. It’s clear that with out freeport standing, the potential for Anglesey to learn from enterprise funding could be in danger, and harm the alternatives which may very well be afforded to our communities.

“I’m decided to do all I can to work with the bidding events to make sure my constituents profit from this as soon as in a technology alternative – turbocharging our native financial system and making certain Anglesey stays a sustainable powerhouse.”

Rhun ap Iorwerth, Member of the Senedd for Ynys Môn stated:

“This can be a bid Ynys Môn can actually get behind. It’s been nice to work with Anglesey Council and Stena in shaping a bid that displays our ambitions as a neighborhood. We needed safeguards on employees’ rights and the atmosphere, which we bought, together with a a lot stronger monetary package deal than the unique supply. The outcome has enabled us to place collectively a bid wich is compelling, thrilling and sustainable.

“This can be a robust bid, permitting us to maximise the potential of the port and unfold advantages throughout the island when it comes to job creation and enhancing training and coaching alternatives.”

Alastair Evans, Company Affairs Director at Rolls-Royce, stated:

“Anglesey presents quite a lot of distinctive traits which proceed to attraction to our long-term enterprise pursuits; its well-established commerce infrastructure alongside a famend place as a sustainable power hub are traits which make it extraordinarily enticing. Our curiosity in deploying our Rolls-Royce SMR know-how on the Wylfa Newydd nuclear website has been effectively publicised, and we’re eager that the UK authorities continues to create circumstances which might appeal to our revolutionary and deployable resolution to North Wales at tempo.

“Whereas Anglesey at current stays enticing to long-term funding, the addition of the proposed freeport may improve its supply to our enterprise.”

Mae Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn a Stena Line wedi cyhoeddi eu bwriad i wneud cynnig sylweddol er mwyn cyflwyno porthladd rhydd a rhoi hwb economaidd i’r rhanbarth am nifer o flynyddoedd i ddod.

Yn ogystal â phorthladd Caergybi, mae Stena Line wedi buddsoddi mewn safle 213 erw, a fydd yn arwain at fuddion lu i rannau amrywiol economi’r rhanbarth, ynghyd â nifer o safleoedd ar attracts Ynys Môn sydd yn y broses o gael eu dethol.

Mae Stena Line, cwmni o Sweden, yn bwriadu gwneud buddsoddiad dramor sylweddol ym Mhorthladd Caergybi, sef yr ail borthladd rholio ymlaen/rholio i ffwrdd mwyaf yn y wlad ac yn borth rhyngwladol i Iwerddon, drwy Fôr Iwerddon ac yn hollbwysig er mwyn pontio Prydain a’r UE. Yn cynnig y llwybr cyflymaf, mwyaf dibynadwy o gludo nwyddau rhwng Iwerddon a’r Cyfandir. Os bydd yn llwyddiannus, rhagwelir y bydd y cynnig yn ail-gyflwyno’r lefelau masnach a welwyd yng Nghaergybi cyn Brexit ac yn cadarnhau’r ardal fel hwb arloesedd mewn masnach ac ynni glân, gyda mentrau blaengar y diwydiant ar hyd ei arfordir yn arwain y DU tuag at ei amcanion sero web.

Bydd y cynnig ffurfiol yn cael ei gyflwyno’r wythnos nesaf i Lywodraeth Cymru a Llywodraeth y DU. Mae trafodaethau eisoes yn mynd rhagddynt gyda busnesau a sefydliadau mawr sy’n cefnogi’r cynnig ac sydd â diddordeb mewn buddsoddi yn y porthladd rhydd. Erbyn hyn, gofynnir i’r cyhoedd ddod ynghyd i gefnogi’r cynnig hwn sy’n gyfle unwaith mewn bywyd i’r rhanbarth. Gallant wneud hynny drwy fynegi eu cefnogaeth yn angleseyfreeport.co.uk.

Mae porthladdoedd rhydd yn cael gwared ar rwystrau masnachu ac yn symleiddio sut all busnesau weithredu. Yn ôl amcangyfrifon modelu cychwynnol, byddai’r porthladd rhydd yn denu gwerth £1bn o fuddsoddiad mawr ei angen, gan gynnwys rhwng 3,500 a 13,000 o swyddi newydd â chyflogau da iddynt ar attracts y rhanbarth. Byddai’r cynnig, y mae 17 o fusnesau mawr o amrywiol sectorau a diwydiannau eisoes wedi mynegi eu cefnogaeth tuag ato, gan gynnwys Rolls Royce, Bechtel a Final Vitality, ynghyd â phartneriaid addysgol sylweddol, megis Prifysgol Bangor, yn sicrhau parthau tollau yng Nghaergybi ac ym mannau eraill ar Ynys Môn gyda threfniadau tariffau a threthi arbennig wedi’u dylunio i ddenu buddsoddiad sylweddol o ffynonellau domestig a rhyngwladol.

Meddai Ian Hampton, Prif Swyddog Gweithredol a Chyfarwyddwr Gweithredol Stena Line:

“Mae Stena Line yn benderfynol o weld trawsnewidiad mewn buddsoddiad a gweithgarwch economaidd yng nghymuned Ynys Môn. Rydym wedi bod yn rhan o’r gymuned hon ers dros 27 mlynedd ac yn awyddus i weld y cynnig hwn yn llwyddo. Gwyddom y gall gyflwyno buddsoddiad sylweddol, hybu arloesedd a chreu swyddi medrus, gwerth uchel â chyflogau da iddynt. Gall sefydlu’r rhanbarth yn hwb o ragoriaeth masnachu byd-eang.

“Mae nifer o wahanol elfennau i’r porthladd rhydd. Yn ogystal ag yn hwb gweithgynhyrchu, gall ddod yn flaenllaw mewn arloesedd gwyrdd, cynorthwyo i wireddu’n llwyddiannus gweledigaeth y Rhaglen Ynys Ynni a hoffem weld World Customs Academy yn cael ei sefydlu ar Ynys Môn.”

Dywedodd y Cyng. Carwyn Jones, Dirprwy Arweinydd y Cyngor:

“Byddai porthladd rhydd yn rhan annatod o greu datblygiad economaidd, cynaliadwy, hirdymor ar yr Ynys ac ar attracts y Rhanbarth. Mae gormod o’n trigolion, yn enwedig pobl ifanc, yn teimlo bod rhaid iddynt adael yr Ynys er mwyn ceisio swyddi da a dyfodol sicr. Rydym eisiau newid hynny, ac mae modd gwneud.

“Er mwyn gwneud hyn, mae angen y buddsoddiad arnom i roi bywyd newydd cynaliadwy a hirdymor i’r economi leol. Bydd hyn yn cyflwyno cymunedau iach, llewyrchus a ffyniannus, yn ogystal â sicrhau dyfodol yr iaith Gymraeg ar yr Ynys. Mae hynny’n allweddol i roi dyfodol sicr i bobl Ynys Môn a gogledd Cymru.

“Rydym yn hynod falch bod gennym ran mor amlwg yn ymwneud ag addysg, sgiliau a hyfforddiant wrth wraidd y cynnig. Mae’n wych cael sgyrsiau yn mynd rhagddynt gyda Phrifysgol Bangor, sy’n flaenllaw mewn ymchwil i gyflawni effaith, i adnabod a theilwra cyfleoedd addysgiadol i’r swyddi newydd posibl y gallai’r Porthladd rhydd eu cefnogi.”

Dywedodd Virginia Crosbie, Aelod Seneddol Ynys Môn:

“A minnau wedi bod yn hyrwyddo porthladd rhydd Ynys Môn ers tro byd, hyderaf y bydd yn darparu swyddi medrus, gwerth uchel i filoedd o bobl leol, yn ogystal ag yn ffordd o ddenu buddsoddiad cynaliadwy, hirdymor gan fusnesau ledled y byd.

“Bydd porthladd rhydd Ynys Môn yn beiriant economaidd a fydd yn denu buddsoddiad newydd ac yn cyflawni cyfleoedd trendy i economi gogledd Cymru, a phleser gennyf yw fy mod wedi cwrdd â chymaint o fusnesau lleol a rhyngwladol sydd wedi dod ynghyd i gefnogi’r porthladd rhydd. Mae’n amlwg mai heb statws porthladd rhydd, byddai’r posibilrwydd i Ynys Môn elwa ar fuddsoddiad busnes fod mewn risg, a gall wneud niwed i’r cyfleoedd y gellid eu cyflwyno i’n cymunedau.

“Rwy’n benderfynol o wneud popeth o fewn fy ngallu gyda phartïon y cynnig i sicrhau bod fy etholwyr yn elwa ar y cyfle hwn sy’n codi unwaith mewn cenhedlaeth – yn hwb enfawr i’n cymuned leol ac yn sicrhau bod Ynys Môn yn parhau’n rhanbarth cadarn, cynaliadwy.”

Rhun ap Iorwerth MS, Aelod Seneddol dros Ynys Môn:

“Mae hwn yn gais y gall Ynys Môn wir ei gefnogi. Mae wedi bod yn bleser gweithio gyda Chyngor Môn a Stena i lunio cais sy’n adlewyrchu ein huchelgeisiau fel cymuned. Llwyddwyd i gael sicrwydd ar hawliau gweithwyr a’r amgylchedd, ynghyd â phecyn ariannol llawer cryfach na’r cynnig gwreiddiol. Mae’r canlyniad wedi ein galluogi i lunio cais cymhellol, cyffrous a chynaliadwy.

“Mae hwn yn gais cryf, sy’n ein galluogi i wneud y mwyaf o botensial y porthladd ac yn lledaenu buddion ar attracts yr ynys o ran creu swyddi a gwella cyfleoedd addysg a hyfforddiant.”

Meddai Alastair Evans, Cyfarwyddwr Materion Corfforaethol Rolls-Royce:

“Mae nifer o nodweddion unigryw yn Ynys Môn sy’n parhau i apelio at ein diddordebau busnes hirdymor; mae ei seilwaith masnach sefydledig a’i safle enwog fel hwb ynni cynaliadwy yn nodweddion sy’n gwneud y lle yn hynod atyniadol. Nid yw’n gyfrinach bod gennym ddiddordeb mewn cyflwyno technoleg Adweithyddion Modwlar Bychain Rolls-Royce ar safle niwclear Wylfa Newydd, ac rydym yn awyddus i Lywodraeth y DU barhau i greu amodau a fyddai’n denu ein datrysiad arloesol a gosodadwy i ogledd Cymru yn gyflym.

“Er bod Ynys Môn yn parhau i fod yn atyniadol ar gyfer buddsoddiad hirdymor ar hyn o bryd, drwy ychwanegu’r porthladd rhydd arfaethedig, gellid atgyfnerthu’r hyn sydd gan yr Ynys i’w gynnig i’n busnes.”