Recent investment in upgraded quayside facilities has seen an increased throughput of wood chip and wood pellets for export into the mainland European energy market.
Wood Pellets
As part of its strategy to develop links with renewable energy companies, Solent Stevedores has been working with Verdo Renewables Ltd to export consignments of premium wood pellets to mainland Europe for use in biomass heating systems, such as boilers and stoves.
The premium wood pellets are transported from Verdo’s new £15m fuel production plant in Andover to the Southampton bulks terminal where it is loaded onboard ship by Solent’s high capacity cranes.
Wood Chip
Solent Stevedores has worked closely with Eco Sustainable Solutions, in recent times, to receive and load out regular shipments of processed wood emanating from County Councils, Local Authorities and commercial sources in and around the south coast region.
Historically this waste material would have been sent to landfill sites but it is now exported to Scandinavia to be used as fuel in Biomass energy generating plants thereby adding to the UK’s export income.
In recognition of this new and expanding trade, Solent Stevedores has underwritten the cost of upgraded quayside facilities to accumulate and load out this cargo
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