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拢10m port expansion as PD and Barrett agree new steel deal

Groveport investment and fleet doubling follows new deal

Investment incoming: Pictured, from left, PD Ports鈥� general manager, Roy Merryweather; logistics manager Jen Taylor; integrated management systems director Sharon Smith and director of portcentric logistics, Ian Johnson; with Barrett Steel鈥檚 managing director, Richard Gawler; group operations director John Childs, director Andy Warcup and group purchasing director Guy Barrett.

A £10 million port investment is being made to handle steel distribution in northern Lincolnshire.

PD Ports is close to completing a dedicated new 200,000 sq ft site at its Groveport facility on the River Trent. It will support long-term customer Barrett Steel as it grows its market share, and signifies the start of a new contract that will take the partnership to 2040 and beyond.

The new facility, launching early next year, will support the expansion of Barrett’s footprint on the Humber, and will be further enhanced with additional investment from the port operator to double the size of its transport fleet. It is a move described as strengthening Barrett’s national distribution network, allowing for just-in-time deliveries to be made across the 海角视频.

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It is PD’s largest investment on the Humber in decades, with the 190-acre site between Gunness and Flixborough, on the outskirts of Scunthorpe, its largest location in the region.

Geoff Lippitt, chief commercial officer, said: “The new Barrett Steel facility is a huge milestone for PD Ports at Groveport. This marks the largest single piece of investment in the site since we first acquired it back in 2015 and demonstrates our intentions to position Groveport as the 海角视频’s leading steel handling hub for steel sourced both domestically and internationally.”

The state-of-the-art warehouse has also been instrumental for both parties in continuing to realise their shared sustainability targets - it is the first building in the 海角视频 to be constructed in ‘XCarb’ steel – steel made using 100 per cent recycled content and 100 per cent renewable energy – supplied by fellow PD Ports customer, ArcelorMittal. The new build is also primed to welcome solar panels in the future.

Mr Lippitt said: “As a business, we are constantly striving to reduce our industrial impact on the environment and have ambitious decarbonisation targets to reach net zero. This innovative warehouse is a fantastic example of how we can utilise lower carbon materials in order to reduce emissions across the supply chain.”