Sims Group Opens New Dock in UK

Sims Group has opened a new dock facility in Hull, UK, to boost the amount of scrap material the company can export all over the world.

The new facility is capable of loading vessels with up to 30,000 metric tons of capacity. The new deep sea dock marks the fourth such facility to be opened by Sims Group in the UK.

The Hull facility is run by Sims' metal division and will deal predominantly in scrap metal. The company has said that in the future it may also look to include the export of other materials from the site.

The site has a rail link, which will make it easier to bring metal in from the company's Nottingham shredder site. The material being sent to Hull would previously have been sent to either a contractor at the Hull docks or the company's Newport dock facility.

Sims UK’s managing director Tom Bird said: "The Hull operation will bring added flexibility to the Sims metal business in the Northern region. Specifically it will allow us to improve the cost effectiveness and quality of our service to customers whilst expanding the coverage of Sims Group's sites in the North and North East."

The company said its metal will predominantly be sent to China and India from the Hull facility, although material will also be sent to other countries that Sims supplies, including Spain and Turkey. Letsrecycle.com.