WORLD GRAIN – December 2002

Easing the flow

The Port or Liverpool calculates that a newly acquired Vigan ship unloader, installed by Cargill at its Brocklebank Dock rapeseed crushing facility, will result 2,500 fewer trucks a year on UK roads.

Cargilll now expects 25 vessels per year to ship rapeseed into Liverpool as the opposed to transporting it by road.

The company is also looking to handle shipments from third parties.

The Vigan pneumatic unloader, which can discharge a ship at a rate of 170t/h, was purchased with the assistance of a Department or Transport Freight Facility Grant.

"By shipping up to 5,000 tons in a time by sea from other parts of Britain and mainland Europe, we are not only securing valuable supplies for the plant and extra traffic for the port, but we are also substantially reducing the number or truck movements across the country's network," says Cargill's port superintendent - Andrew Polter. I

An additional 25 vessels a year are now expected at Brocklebank Dock thanks to the new Vigan unloader.

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