Introduction

 

The Northern Loop - is a vision for a logistically efficient, automated transportation corridor linking three ports. These ports are located at Morcambe Bay, The Humber and Teeside in the North of England.

The Northern Loop is designed to provide long-term benefits, to the 15 million inhabitants of the North of England, who have long suffered from inadequate transportation and intercommunications infrastructure.

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The Northern Loop is the logistical backbone, for a series of carbon-neutral New Towns and Enterprise Centres. The Loop can be extended and has inbuilt flexibility to accommodate millions of people on well-serviced, flood free lands.

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The Northern Loop comprises five basic elements:

1.  Three Container Ports - Accessed by sea-locks and interlinked

2.  An Automated Transportation Route - Connecting the Automated ContainerPorts.

3.  Protection from Climate Change Flooding of the Humberside and Teesside Regions

4.  A Morcambe Bay Crossing - Connecting isolated Cumbria & Northern Ireland, with the Lancashire and Merseyside Coastal Regions.

5.  Linking Ireland to Scotland or England via rail tunnel

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Good infrastructure improves efficiency and is cost-beneficial. As Political Risk is a primary concern of infrastructural investment, "Political Will" is a necessary prerequisite to the realisation of this Vision!

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The North of England was once at the heart of an Industrial Revolution that changed the World. Efficient trading generated wealth. Key to success, was the encouragement of an inventive mindset and creation of an efficient infrastructural logistics chain. The construction of Toll Roads, Canals, Railways and Ports, allowed the efficient importation of raw materials and, the export of goods to all parts of the Empire and the rest of the world.