Solent Stevedores

Solent Stevedores is an award winning stevedoring company providing a broad range of bulk and cargo handling, storage services and cruise vessel support.

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and beyond.

Leading Hand at our rail terminal, William and Mike, Cruise Duty Manager at Horizon Terminal were greeted by HRH at a reception held at Horizon Cruise Terminal.

We look forward to sharing more photos soon.

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We were really proud to be part of HRH The Princess Royal’s visit to the Port of Southampton last week.

The visit was hosted by The Mission to Seafarers, Associated British Ports and DP World to highlight the essential role of port communities during the years of the pandemic

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2021 was a record year for Bulk tonnage at our Port of Southampton site.
Since 2016, we have been handling more than 1 mt of bulk each year with the latest figures topping 1.257 mt - an 18% increase on 2020.https://t.co/2DK6fY5mYX
#TeamSolent #BulkHandling #BulkCarrier #BreakBul

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A wonderful morning to welcome Paxi, a 170m long bulk carrier, to the the Port of Southampton today. She is discharging 22,000 tonnes of Gypsum rock from Garrucha, Spain.

#BulkHandling #BulkCarrier #BulkCarriers #BreakBulk #BulkTeam #HeavyHaul #PortofSouthampton #TeamSolent

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Our Operations Director Tom Dynes, has been elected onto the Cruise Britain Steering Committee once again.

Tom will continue his work with cruise partners across the industry to strengthen the country's position as a world-class cruise destination.

#CruiseNews #CruiseIndustry

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Earlier in the month we organised another hugely successful social event for retired port workers in Southampton. This event was hosted by Stu Cullen, our Executive Chairman, and you can see him in the photo below enjoying catching up with Steve Pearce Director at SCPS.

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A festive message from us to you! #TeamSolent

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A beautiful day to welcome the Nord Adriatic at the Port of Southampton. She's a scrap metal bulker at 109 berth today and has been loading 42,000 tonnes since 0045 this morning. She'll be off to Egypt when our operations are complete.#ScrapMetal #TeamSolent #CargoHandling

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Our social event is back! For a lovely pre-Christmas gathering with old work mates, do come along on 9 December.

All the details are below and please do let Zak know if you'd like to attend.

#RetiredPortWorkers #PortofSouthampton #SocialEvent #TeamSolent

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Incredibly proud to have been recognised in some prestigious awards this season. Winning the Best Environmental Initiative at the #WaveAwards & shortlisted at the #SeatradeCruiseAwards & #HeavyLiftAwards Go #TeamSolent

https://t.co/9xqJQHgxNc

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Our new reach stackers working hard - 'Ella Louise' here transferring containers at busy Solent Rail Terminal in Southampton last week.

#RailTerminal #ReachStacker #RailInvestment #PortOfSouthampton #TeamSolent #CargoHandling #ContainerHandling

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Queen Mary 2 alongside at Ocean Cruise Terminal today. No passengers for this transatlantic ocean liner but plenty of support from #TeamSolent to get her ready to welcome passengers again in the coming months.

#CruiseOperations #CruiseIndustry #Stevedoring #cunardqueenmary2

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Read our latest press release for more info on how Ella Louise, Emily May and Poppy now have a regular presence at the Solent Rail Terminal in the Western Docks.

https://t.co/d9QYHdsVBQ

#RailInvestment #railfreight #CargoHandling #ReachStacker #RailNews #RailCargo #Containers

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The latest phase of investment at our rail terminal in Southampton comes with a heavy influence of our strong family-centred ethos and is inspired by the next generation of #TeamSolent

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It's the #SeatradeCruiseAwards next week, we are incredibly proud to have been shortlisted in the #WeAreBack - Onshore category.

Here's Paul, our Duty Manager at Ocean Terminal, he shares a bit behind the scenes during cruise ops and his thoughts the lockdown period.

#Cruise

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Our newly expanded 8-acre site at #LondonGateway can accommodate up to 3,500 TEU of #ContainerStorage. Our team expertly handles more than 350 lifts each day, with twin lifting for efficiency and fast turnaround times.
#ContainerMaintenance #ContainerRepair #ContainerHandling

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A successful afternoon at the Port of Southampton with Team Solent's first timber vessel. 2,000 tonnes of timber unloaded from Mv DOLFIJN. Great work team.

#TimberVessel #CargoHandlers #PortofSouthampton #TeamSolent

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On Thursday, when Summer was still here (!), we welcomed the General Cargo vessel Gunda G to the #PortofSouthampton.

A great collaboration from #TeamSolent, J Alford and SGS/Cefetra loading at just over 300 tonnes per hour with the tractor trailers.

#CargoHandlers

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Yesterday morning's activity from the Rail Terminal at the Port of Southampton. Two services arrived simultaneously - from Doncaster and Rotherham.

In 3 hours, 129 containers expertly handled.

#cargohandling #RailTerminal #ContainerBox #PortofSouthampton #RailOperations

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At our London Gateway site, #TeamSolent significantly expanded site enables next gen empty container handling, storage maintenance, repair & shunting. We handle in excess of 300 container lifts each day.

#LondonGateway #TeamSolent #ContainerHandling #ReeferContainer #Maintenance