The Director General of the Department for International Trade has explored Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’ ambition with Humebr business leaders.
Andrew Mitchell visited Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, meeting with chief executive Dr Ian Kelly and stakeholder partners in Hull.
It was organised by international partnership manager Andrew Finch, who works between DIT and Hull and East Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership, reviewing how to encourage export growth activity after the global Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.
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Dr Kelly, who chaired the meeting, highlighted the Chamber’s historic work taking more than 100 trade missions and exhibitions to market and generating more than £150 million worth of income for businesses in global markets on behalf of the fourth largest trading estuary in Europe.
Mr Mitchell recognised the rapidly expanding role of the Humber for inward investment on both banks of the river, with the freeport status also discussed, along with the need to connect the work of Opportunities Humber with the newly emerging Humber Energy Board to be chaired by Richard Gwilliam of Drax.
David Hooper, Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce external affairs director, said: “All partners agreed to work to ensure businesses were given the best chance to get back into international trade and attract new inward investment to best effect.”
Pansena, working at the Saltend site with Ineos and other renewables businesses to bring a new rare earth raw materials capability to the Humber, was represented, so too Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, with University of Hull also.
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