UK Government Rejects Dibden Bay Proposal

So near and yet so far away. The view to Southampton Docks from the Dibden Bay development site. (Photo: Paul Glendell /English Nature.

As Maritime Journal went to press, the UK''s Department for Transport announced its decision to block the controversial £ 600m Dibden Bay container port facility proposed by Associated British Ports for its Port of Southampton .

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