Editing Goole (section)

==Industry==

Glass is produced in Goole, which is also the centre of an agricultural district. The town's former large employer was a clothing manufacture for the big multiples, but it closed in the late 2000s. 

Goole's industrial park, Capitol Park / Goole36,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitolparkgoole.co.uk/ |title=Capitol Park |access-date=23 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520064552/http://capitolparkgoole.co.uk/ |archive-date=20 May 2013 }}</ref> has attracted two large employers: [[Guardian Industries]], which built a glass-manufacturing plant, and [[Tesco]], which built a distribution centre. The arrival of these employers resulted in the creation of hundreds of new jobs.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jobs boost as warehouses get the go-ahead |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/jobs-boost-as-warehouses-get-the-go-ahead-1-2335471 |access-date=24 July 2018 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=19 February 2009}}</ref>

A new [[Siemens Goole|railway rolling stock factory]] was built at the Capitol Park / Goole36 location opening in 2024. The plant, owned and operated by [[Siemens Mobility]], is currently building the new tube trains for the [[Piccadilly line]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lea |first1=Robert |title=Siemens will build factory in UK after winning Tube train contract |work=The Times |issue=72563 |date=16 June 2018 |page=55|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

A new [[Metsä Tissue]] toilet roll factory was announced 21 September 2023, to be built over the next decade at the new Goole site within the Humber Freeport, which allows companies to import goods tariff-free. When completed it will have a capacity to produce {{convert|240,000|tonne}} of tissue paper using fresh wood fibres grown in Nordic forests.<ref>{{cite news |date=21 September 2023 |title=Goole toilet roll factory to create 400 new jobs, Finnish firm says |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-66866461 |access-date=22 September 2023}}</ref>

===Docks===
[[File:"The Port in Green Fields" - geograph.org.uk - 878238.jpg|thumb|The port, from a distance]]
{{main|Port of Goole}}
Three locks keep the water in {{convert|37|acre|m2}} of floating docks at a constant depth of {{convert|6|m}} by preventing the level from rising and falling with the tides in the River Ouse. Once ships are within the complex, eight docks provide a total quayside of {{convert|3|mi}}. Beside the docks are transit sheds where cargo is stored, many of them equipped with overhead cranes.<ref name="Porteous" /> Unlike many ports, every one of the eight docks has been in full commercial operation since its construction in the period from 1826 to 1912.

For most of its life, the port was most associated with the shipment of coal and associated cargoes, including the importation of [[pit prop]]s. With the demise of mining, the former Timber Pond became a marina, trading under the name ''Goole Boathouse''. It has berths for 150 boats.

After a period of decline, commodities were replaced by containers, the export of [[steel]] and the import of timber from north-eastern Europe. Today, the Port of Goole has regular [[cargo liner]] services to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Morocco and South Africa and a transshipment route to [[Europoort|Europort]], [[Rotterdam]].