PORT OF IPSWICH HANDLES ITS FIRST SHIPMENT FROM DOWN UNDER
Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Ipswich recently expanded its range of trade links after handling its first ever shipment from Australia. The cargo – 4,500 tonnes of zinc ingots – was discharged at the port’s Cliff Quay.
Shipped from Queensland, Australia, aboard m.v Edisongracht, the zinc ingots are destined for Flintshire, where they will be melted down and used in the galvanising of steel products. This is the first such shipment of metal which ABP’s Port of Ipswich has received.
Len Hayes, Director of cargo agents Landbridge Shipping Ltd, handled the delivery.
“We, as a company, have been busy trying to attract new traffic to ABP’s Port of Ipswich. Given Ipswich’s location and flexible ability to handle a range of cargoes, we were confident that the port would be able to handle a consignment of cargo it had never before received,” said Len Hayes.
“The operation has run very smoothly and so we look forward to building on the relationship we have established,” Len added.
Robert Smith, Port Manager of ABP Ipswich, welcomed Ipswich’s first Australian shipment, saying:
“Ipswich has links with ports all over the world. This double first of receiving a ship from a new country and handling a cargo we’ve never before handled, show how the port is constantly expanding in new directions.”
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