GETTING THE BEST OUT OF WHEAT

British Ports

Coastal Shipping Seminar29/11/18

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

Silloth Port & Mill

Kirkcaldy Harbour

Port

reopened

2011,

nearly

600,000mt

discharged

since then

New Mill

Breathed

new life

into site,

new Mill

opened

2014

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

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

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…