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July 2010
Solent Stevedores are delighted to welcome Robert O’ Connell to their Maintenance team on a 4 year apprenticeship scheme.
Ian Jacobs, General Manager commented “The uplift in business levels experienced in 2010 has necessitated the need for us to add further resource to our busy Maintenance team.
In these difficult times for many businesses, I am thrilled that we are able to give Robert an opportunity as he starts his working life with us and we aim to give him the chance to develop himself in a dynamic environment.“
June 2010
Solent Stevedores was proud to be involved in both the biggest export of grain from the UK this year and the largest grain tonnage ever loaded out of the Port of Southampton. After loading just under 50,000 tonnes at the Southampton Grain Silo, the 36,137 GRT vessel ‘Lioness C’ was moved round from the Eastern Docks, to take advantage of the extra water depth available alongside the Solent Stevedores Bulk Terminal. From here Solent Stevedores loaded just under 9,000 tonnes to add to the cargo already on board, making a total of 58,500 tonnes. All of the product was sold by Frontier Agriculture and sourced from farms across the country thereby ensuring that the export revenue will contribute substantially to UK overseas earnings.
May 2010
May heralded the first of the busy summer month’s cruise activity for Solent Stevedores in Southampton, Northern Europe’s busiest cruise port.
A total of 29 cruise ships were handled by Solent Stevedores during the month. All vessels, often with over 3,000 passengers aboard, were turned around within the allotted 10 hour period.
In total over 140,000 passengers, approximately 350,000 pieces of baggage and several thousand tonnes of ships stores were successfully handled by the Solent Stevedores cruise support team.
April 2010
We were proud to provide services to Carnival UK during the successful inaugural celebrations for the new P&O cruise ship Azura which left Southampton for its maiden voyage to the Eastern Mediterranean on Monday 12th April.
Congratulations to Carnival on a successful Launch event.
March 2010
Recently released cargo throughput figures reveal another set of impressive results for Solent Stevedores. A total of 33 vessels were handled in February with 103,138 tonnes of cargo moved through the Western Dock bulk terminal, the first time in the company’s history that the magic 100,000 tonnes figure has been exceeded in one month.
During the final week of February, despite challenging weather conditions, seven bulk vessels were handled, with over 56,000 tonnes of salt for road gritting and 15,000 tonnes of Animal Feed discharged on a round the clock working basis.
February 2010
Having successfully completed a competitive tendering process, Solent Stevedores has been selected to provide baggage and stores handling services to over 200 cruise ships and 800,000 passengers a year calling in the Port of Southampton, under the control of Carnival UK.
In future, Solent Stevedores staff will be regularly on hand to transfer passenger baggage and ships provisions to and from well known cruise ships such as 'Queen Mary 2', 'Ventura' and 'Grand Princess' , operating under the familiar Cunard, P&O and Princess Cruises brands.
January 2010
A new portal quayside conveyor capable of loading vessels of up to 6,000 tonnes was recently unveiled at the Port of Southampton by Gleadell Agriculture Ltd, a multi national agricultural trader and grain storage operator.
The new equipment, which will be operated by Solent Stevedores, handled an initial cargo comprising 2,377 tonnes of feed wheat for Portugal aboard the MV Victoria on 13th November.
December 2009
On Tuesday 24th November Solent Stevedores opened a new chapter at Tate & Lyle London with the implementation of the new refined sugar jetty contract. With major investment from Tate & Lyle in the upgrade of the refined sugar jetty and the purchase of a new multidocker material handler.
Solent Stevedores and Tate & Lyle management put in place all the training and necessary safety systems for the very successful implementation of this contract in the loading of our first conventional bag ship.
Further images of the MultiDocker in action are available in our photo gallery
November 2009
As part of Solent Stevedores commitment to the local community, the company have provided Fordingbridge Juniors Football Club with a brand new playing kit for the current season.
October 2009
Solent Stevedores to the rescue!
At very short notice Solent Stevedores were called upon to unload smouldering cargo at 0300 hrs on a Sunday morning from a vessel in transit through the English Channel working with the Fire Services and Marine Coastguard Agency.
September 2009
A record month!!
- 35 vessels were handled in 30 days, a record for the bulk terminal
- Huelin Renouf expanded their services from 3 calls per week to 5 calls per week with the addition of a second vessel
