Updated Monday, 1st February 2021, 2:51 pm A consortium from across the Humber, including two Local Enterprise Partnerships of Greater Lincolnshire and the Humber, along with the four local authorities of Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, has been formed in order bid for Freeport Status for the region. The region is already home to the UK’s busiest port complex including the four major ports of Hull, Goole, Immingham and Grimsby which combined handle around 17 per cent of the nation’s trade, as well as handling the materials that supply 10 per cent of the nation’s energy, 25 per cent of the UK’s fuel for our vehicles, almost a third of our national timber supply and underpin the farming, food, retail, construction, automotive and pharmaceutical sectors across the UK but especially the Midlands and the North of England.