Bristol Port Company

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Bristol Port Company logo, Source: Port of Bristol FC

The Bristol Port Company provides cargo handling services.

It was established in 1991 when co-founders Terence Mordaunt and David Ord bought the Port of Bristol from Bristol City Council. [1] Both men are Conservative Party Donors. Mordaunt is also a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation[2]

First Corporate Shipping is the company's trading name.

Donations

2016

  • Vote Leave - donated £50,000 on 17 March 2016 to the leading anti-EU group for the UK's EU membership referendum on 23 June 2016. [3]

2019

  • £25,000 each for the 2019 Conservative leadership campaigns of both Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson according to the register of MPs’ interests. [4]

External resources

Notes

  1. ↑ 'Bristol Port Company', Bristolport.co.uk, accessed 19 May 2016
  2. ↑ Peter Geoghegan, Climate change denier makes big donations to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, The Ferret, 12 June 2019
  3. ↑ Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 12 May 2016
  4. ↑ Peter Geoghegan, Climate change denier makes big donations to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, OpenDemocracy and The Ferret, 12 June 2019. last accessed 24 July 2019