UK Freeports: Your Guide to Tax Advantages
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There are 12 English freeports: East Midlands Airport, Felixstowe and Harwich, Humber, Liverpool City Region, Plymouth and South Devon, Solent, Teesside, Thames, Anglesey, Celtic, Inverness and Cromarty Firth, and Opportunity Cromarty Firth. That is 12 sites in England alone.
AfterThere are 8 English freeports: East Midlands Airport, Felixstowe and Harwich, Humber, Liverpool City Region, Plymouth and South Devon, Solent, Teesside, and Thames. Scotland has 2 green freeports: Forth Green Freeport and Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport. Wales has 2 freeports: Celtic Freeport and Anglesey Freeport. Northern Ireland has no designated freeport as of 2026. That is 12 sites UK-wide.
Why: The featured snippet fabricated a count of '12 English freeports' by padding the English list with two Welsh sites (Anglesey, Celtic) and duplicating one Scottish site under two different names (Inverness and Cromarty Firth / Opportunity Cromarty Firth); the correct breakdown is England=8, Scotland=2, Wales=2, Northern Ireland=0, for 12 UK-wide total, not 12 English.
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