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by Amanda Bradbury • Up to 150 extra tipper movements a week have been given the go-ahead as a bulk terminal at Royal Portbury Dock gains environmental permission for a maximum one million tonnes throughput a year.
The .£80m 60-acre terminal due to open in September is likely to increase local, mainly thirdparty, tipper work substantially, says the port operator Bristol Port Company (11PC).
But one major tipper operator in the area says it could lose some added-value long-distance work because of the facility: "There will be more tonnage locally which is good news for local hauliers in one sense—but that just means there will be less coming in from other ports."
Additional work created out of the terminal is most likely to be in externally stored materials— although the new terminal also has storage sheds of 5.0-6.0 acres.
One of the laigin,t planned users of the internal stores, Agricultural Bulk Services, says there will not be any more work created by the new terminal. The existing terminal has a throughput capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year. ABS managing director Richard Cooksley says hauliers will be able to load more quickly. The company is aiming for a maximum wait of an hour.
And Cooksley says third-party hauliers employed by the port on internal port truck movements from the quay to the stores will reduce. "After the terminal is built, the material will come off the vessel on to conveyors straight into the sheds" There are about 20 drivers at present employed moving materials from the quays in to the dock's storage area—these will be employed elsewhere and there will be no redundancies, says BPC.