Last week we welcomed the first of MSC’s bi-weekly calls for the 2021 kiwifruit season. The MV Bomar Resilient was loaded with the first boxes of kiwifruit exports bound for China, Japan and Spain.
We were delighted also to load, for the first time, refrigerated containers of frozen meat being exported by Affco.
We have added some new technology to our weighbridges. The system automatically reads number plates and uses this to link the weight to the relevant scaling data.
Our navigation simulator has been an important tool in helping us to plan and prepare for large container ship calls here at Northport in recent months. We use the equipment to examine, as part of the overall risk assessment, the effects on these ships of significant environmental occurrences here at the port.
For instance, as part of the planning for the most recent arrival of the 261m ‘Constantinos P’ we simulated thunderstorm activity with associated heavy rain, reduced visibility and winds gusting up to 50 knots (image above).
