Very true Tynesider, you would have thought that there would have been some announcement in regards to building some more Container Berths in the North East bearing in mind as you say just by looking at Felixstowe and how busy it is, especially on Teesside with all that Wharfage available now that the Steelworks have gone.
The M.O.D. Classification was a Cold War thing and based on shipping equipment to Europe in the event of the East wanting to move into the West as Putin is threatening to do now and before someone hit the Big Red Button
although the so called " Cold War" period has never ceased for the RN hence the need for "Operation Hornbeam" based on the same reasoning that Putin is doing now with his Warships in the Black Sea and interfering with the Sea Trade Routing to Ukraine.
Them watching us, Us watching them, Them watching us, and so on and so on.