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  • A family stand at railings watching shipping on the River Thames at Gravesend during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing at some railings, the two women and the young boy are looking out towards the River Thames at the Kent town just a few miles outside London. Here is shipping that is taking cargo to the capital in an era when the river still a main artery for goods brought from across the world into London. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Teenage love graffiti has been written in chalk on the Thames flood wall located on the Saxon Shore Way at Gravesend
    river_business227-10-09-2007.jpg
  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of industrial river life and architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance on the northern river bank, steam clouds near the double twin chimneys of npower's 1400MW coal fired Tilbury power station (powering 1.4 million homes using ?biomass? fuels and low-sulphur coal) which rise above the passing ghostly bulk of a cargo freighter on its last miles of its voyage from open sea into the Thames Estuary and on to Tilbury Docks. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
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  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of river life and industrial architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance tall old cranes that once lifted cargo from the holds of ships - before the development of containerization - rise from the waters on the south bank opposte the new Tilbury Docks. On its surface, a seagull dips to catch a fish. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury Docks (Europe's only specialist short-sea terminal, handling 120,000 containers each year.) remain a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
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  • Giant cargo container ship on the River Thames eases downstream past old dock cranes at Gravesend, towards open sea at Southend
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  • A  Hapag-Lloyd container cargo ship navigates past two fishermen on the southern shores of the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent England. Pausing from their fishing, the two men lean over the sea defence wall to watch the traffic to-and-fro as one giant vessel after another departs from Tilbury Docks towards open sea. The Thames has historically long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world. There are 133 Hapag-Lloyd containerships with a capacity of around 499.000 TEU (Twenty foot containers), Container capacity exceeds 1,1 million (TEU) containers.
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  • Giant Hamburg-registered cargo container ship on the River Thames eases downstream past Gravesend and on towards open sea
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  • Giant cargo container ship on the River Thames eases downstream past old dock cranes at Gravesend, towards open sea at Southend
    river_business349-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • An inconguous landscape of modern industrial architecture and a foreground of a patchy, poorly-made service road at Northfleet, near Gravesend, Kent England. This is Kimberly Clark's Northfleet Mill which manufactures paper-based products for the hygiene and health market such as tissues and nappies (diapers). The word concrete has been sprayed by aerosol on the ground along with a locating X that marks a confusing and ironic spot for concrete to be found. The high-sided blue walls of the mill factory are smooth and unlike the rough road and to the right the sky is overcast while on the right, it is blue. Kimberly-Clark is a leading global health and hygiene company employing more than 55,000 people worldwide and posting sales of $16.7 billion.
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  • A giant cargo container ship on a wide section of the River Thames eases upstream towards Tilbury Docks.
    river_business360-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Shipping spotters train binoculars on a Hapag-Lloyd container cargo ship navigating downstream on the River Thames.
    river_business351-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Three bygone era dockside cranes stand motionless in early morning fog, redundant after decades of handling shipping freight
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  • Fading name of the Ship and Lobster, an 1832 Dickensian pub reflecting the Victorian shellfish trade on the Thames
    river_business231-10-09-2007.jpg
  • Office table and bucket chairs furniture on empty wasteland in an industrial estate, Northfleet, Thames Gateway
    river_business202-10-09-2007.jpg
  • Refracted and broken lines of a dock crane shimmering on the waters of the River Thames at Industrial Northfleet, Kent
    river_business365-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Three bygone era dockside cranes stand motionless in early morning fog, redundant after decades of handling shipping freight
    river_business343-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • A mound of sand and gravel seen through wire mesh fencing at Hanson Aggregate company, Greenhithe, Thames Gateway
    river_business302-10-09-2007.jpg
  • The Hamburg-registered Mol Caledon ship passes the giant dredging machinery at npower's Tilbury power station on the  River Thames northern shore, Essex England. Having just departed from Tilbury Docks with the evening sun glinting off the stern's reflective surfaces, stacks of tall containers are heaped high but evenly spread for stability along the massive vessel. They head out towards open sea, navigating through deeper water channels that naturally get shallower as silt chokes the waterways. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    thames_ships172-26-06-2007.jpg
  • With cute tissue puppies on its side HGV arrives to collect paper-based goods from manufacturer Kimberly Clark's Northfleet Mill
    river_business281-10-09-2007.jpg
  • The shadows of rusting industrial pipes and gate valves on a abandoned factory site now on wasteland in Northfleet Thames Gateway
    river_business263-10-09-2007.jpg
  • The Hamburg-registered Mol Caledon ship passes the giant dredging machinery at npower's Tilbury power station on the  River Thames northern shore, Essex England. Having just departed from Tilbury Docks with the evening sun glinting off the stern's reflective surfaces, stacks of tall containers are heaped high but evenly spread for stability along the massive vessel. They head out towards open sea, navigating through deeper water channels that naturally get shallower as silt chokes the waterways. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    thames_ships172-26-06-2007.jpg
  • The cargo ship "CMA CGM Turkey" eases past two elderly shipping spotters who log its details on the River Thames
    river_business373-12-02-2008 .jpg
  • The shadows of rusting industrial pipes and gate valves on a abandoned factory site now on wasteland in Northfleet Thames Gateway
    river_business259-10-09-2007.jpg
  • Plastic lobster and net at the bar of The Ship and Lobster, an 1832 Dickensian pub reflecting the shellfish trade on the Thames
    river_business252-10-09-2007.jpg
  • Assorted shipping on the River Thames: Container vessel in the background, two tugs, a floating grey pier and supply boat
    river_business220-10-09-2007.jpg
  • The cargo ship "CMA CGM Turkey" eases past two elderly shipping spotters who log its details on the River Thames
    river_business375-12-02-2008 .jpg
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