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Windfall timber business for Dover

[ November 7, 2023   //   ]

The UK’s largest independent timber harvester Euroforest has started a monthly vessel call at the Port of Dover’s general cargo terminal.

The soft chip wood, largely natural wind ‘blow’, (windfall) will now be transported from Aberdeen by coaster to Dover, each 2500-tonne shipment taking 93 HGVs off the roads and saving 57,000 road miles. It is destined for Kent Renewable Energy’s biomass park, a combined heat and power plant that opened in 2018. The site generates over 27MW of green energy every year – enough to supply 50,000 homes.

Euroforest area manager, Henry Gunn, said: “With much of the material transported from the vast surplus of material available following the natural wind blow from Storm Arwen in November 2021, the environmental credentials of this transit are incredibly strong, from our forests in Aberdeenshire to Sandwich in Kent, with minimal road miles attached.”

Port of Dover head of business development strategy and corporate planning, Alison Hall, added: “This vessel call by Euroforest is a prime example of how our strategic location can reduce the length of journeys and the time of onward distribution of products, considerably reducing CO2 emissions compared to other routes and resulting in huge carbon savings.”

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