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Armitt handles first train at Thamesport

[ August 14, 2017   //   ]

Hutchison-owned London Thamesport has received its first trainload of steel on behalf of the Armitt Group, which is developing a logistics terminal at the former deepsea container port – now being repurposed as a breakbulk and short sea facility.

Operated by DB Cargo, and carrying 1,000 tonnes of steel coil l from the Tata plant in South Wales it was the first train to use the Group’s 120,000sq ft specialist handling facility at the port. The steel is due to leave the port by road to customers throughout Europe.

Hutchison Ports Europe managing director, Clemence Cheng, said: ” The first of many, this move demonstrates clearly London Thamesport’s prime advantages as a multi-purpose cargo handling port. With an excellent combination of deep-water and multimodal rail and road connections to London, the South East and beyond to the Midlands and North West, London Thamesport is ideally located to serve all its customers’ logistical needs.”

Armitt managing director, Allan Seedhouse, commented: “With approximately half of the UK steel imports being consumed within the West Midlands our focus has been to deliver a direct rail link from our London Steel Terminal (AMT-South) to our West Midlands rail hub (AMT-Midlands).

The Armitt Group’s new facility has been designed specifically to handle high quality steel products and is the first stage of a three stage plan to develop similar multimodal facilities in the Midlands and North of the UK within the next three years.

 

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