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GETTING THE BEST OUT OF WHEAT
British Ports
Coastal Shipping Seminar29/11/18
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Carr’s Flour Mills
• 3 Flour mills in the UK
• Milling approx. 350,000 tonnes of
wheat/year
• Now owned by Whitworth
Holdings
• Together, largest group of flour
millers in UK
Carrs Flour Mills
Whitworth Bros
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Silloth Port & Mill
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Kirkcaldy Harbour
Port
reopened
2011,
nearly
600,000mt
discharged
since then
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New Mill
Breathed
new life
into site,
new Mill
opened
2014
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What is good about Coastal shipping?
•Removing need for trucks
•Harmonised consistency of raw material
•Opens up less obvious supply routes
•Vendor assurance
•Ability to take larger positions quickly
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What is NOT good about Coastal Shipping?
•Weather problems
•Historic labour inflexibility and bureaucracy
• Investment in maintaining infrastructure
•Decline in availability of smaller Coasters
•Relentless rise of Port Costs
•Possibility of freight being forced back onto road
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What can Ports do to maintain current users and promote to potential new ones?
•Understand the customer’s needs
•Cut your suit according to your cloth
•Resolve – are you a Property Development Company or a Logistics operator?
• Investigate trade flows by following trucks!
•Work with current customers to promote to new ones
• Freight Facilities Grants available in Scotland…