Associated British Ports has reinforced its East Anglia Commercial Team through three appointments reflecting the company’s commitment to supporting customers, attracting investment and unlocking new opportunities across the region’s trade, logistics and energy sectors. John Grace joins as Lead Commercial Manager for East Anglia, bringing extensive experience across short-sea shipping, multimodal logistics and commercial property. He most recently served as UK Commercial Manager for CLdN Cargo, where he led commercial and customer strategy for major European logistics and shipping clients, and previously held senior commercial roles at Freightliner Group and Samskip. In his new role he will lead commercial activity across ABP’s East Anglia ports, helping customers identify growth opportunities while delivering the regional commercial strategy. Tom Duit has expanded his existing role as Operations Manager at the Port of Lowestoft to incorporate commercial responsibilities, combining deep operational knowledge with a customer and business development focus. He will support the growth of existing relationships, develop new commercial opportunities and strengthen Lowestoft’s growing role in the energy sector. Simon Priddle has been appointed Assistant Commercial Manager following the successful completion of ABP’s Graduate Scheme, bringing a strong understanding of the ports sector and the needs of East Anglia customers to support account management, business development and commercial project delivery across the portfolio. The strengthened team will support ABP’s ports in Ipswich, Lowestoft and King’s Lynn across sectors including offshore wind, conventional and renewable energy, agribulk, construction materials, manufacturing, project cargo and logistics. ABP’s GBP 35 million investment in the Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility provides a dedicated base for offshore energy operations in the Southern North Sea, while the w