BUMPER TIMBER SHIPMENT LARGEST FOR A DECADE
The largest shipment of timber handled at Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Cardiff in over a decade was discharged from the m.v. Sea Trader recently.
The 6,000 cu m shipment of sawn timber was imported from the Baltic states for South Wales-based Britton Timber, suppliers to the construction industry all over the UK from their sole distribution depot in the Port of Cardiff.
Due to the large volume of cargo, the timber was discharged from the m.v. Sea Trader – a roll-on/roll-off ship – via its stern ramp, unlike the conventional method of using quayside cranes.
Clive Thomas, Deputy Port Manager, ABP South Wales Ports, explained that ABP Cardiff can adapt to meet any customer requirement:
“This bumper shipment proves that ABP Cardiff has the ability to handle large volumes of cargo, in whatever form and from whichever type of vessel our customers decide to bring their goods into the port.”
John Davey, Managing Director of Cardiff Stevedoring who discharged the ship, said:
“ABP’s new north-side Timber Terminal within its Port of Cardiff is an excellent facility, with some three acres of first-class concrete hardstanding and a modern 7,000 sq m warehouse which enables us to undertake a safe, efficient and effective service on the shore-side for our valued customer, Britton Timber. At the same time, this facility provides us with the ability to perform the kind of turnaround for the ship owner as experienced on the m.v. Sea Trader – when over half of the cargo was discharged by one stevedoring gang* in a single day.”
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