Why Humber?

What makes the Humber an ideal place to invest in new technologies to tackle net zero? Find out more about the Humber’s national and global role, why our region is an innovation and investment hot-spot and get information on the key practical components to basing your investment here.

4 min read

Why Invest In The Humber?

The Humber is the UK’s Energy Estuary

Key estuarial region to demonstrate decarbonisation

Wave of big-ticket investments

Excellent connections to UK, Europe and rest of the world

Large-scale carbon capture cluster

Ample land availability

Established innovation system

Leading flood resilience projects

Key Facts

Loading...

Why Humber Articles

4 min read

Why the world needs the Humber

The challenges and opportunities presented by zero-carbon targets. 

Read Article

5 min read

Why the Humber is key to UK PLC

Find out why the Humber region is crucial to UK PLC, playing a huge role in driving the nation’s economy.

Read Article

-1 min read

Investment momentum

The Humber region has seen a stream of big-ticket investments from both UK and multinational organisations.

Read Article

10 min read

Innovation Ecosystem

The Humber has all the ingredients of an effective innovation ecosystem capable of shaping its economic transformation into a world leading, low-carbon economy.

Read Article

3 min read

Energy resilience and carbon capture

Energy remains an important facet for the Humber's processing and manufacturing industries. However, the way it is produced is changing rapidly.

Read Article

5 min read

Financial infrastructure

Read about the host of funding opportunities available to businesses within the Humber region.

Read Article

10 min read

Land availability

The Humber is blessed with large tracts of land allocated for industrial development.

Read Article

8 min read

Flood resilience

The combination of topography, geography and an interconnected drainage system makes Hull unique in terms of flood risk. 

Read Article

5 min read

Transport links

The Humber’s outstanding location and connectivity has led to us building a unique body of port related logistics, engineering and manufacturing expertise and infrastructure.

Read Article

The Humber provides the perfect industrial cluster to demonstrate multiple solutions to the climate change challenge.

The World Needs The Humber

Back to Investment Globe Invest Humber globe