UK's busiest container port at Felixstowe marks 50 years

 The UK's biggest and busiest container port is marking a half century of handling cargo.

The Port of Felixstowe was the first of its kind in the country when it opened in 1967.

It currently employs 2,500 people and is linked to 32,500 jobs across Suffolk.

Videos can be viewed via these links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-42117493/uk-s-busiest-container-port-at-felixstowe-marks-50-years

https://www.portoffelixstowe.co.uk/50-years/history/

Keith Flower with his son Jason Flower of the Port Users Association on the Mark Murphy show this morning live from Port of Felixstowe. Keith worked some of the first containers ever at the port back in 1967.

Hope, RageeneeCorporate Affairs Co-ordinator at Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd