Port of Southampton
Based in the Western Docks, but operating across the whole port area at the UK’s number one export port, the Port of Southampton, Solent Stevedores specialises in the following services:
Cruise stevedoring services for passenger baggage and ships stores’
Award-winning Solent Rail Terminal and container storage, repair and maintenance services
Dry Bulk Terminal
Project and general cargo
Cruise services
Welcoming over 400 cruise calls and 2 million passengers to Europe’s leading cruise turnaround port every year across 5 world-class cruise terminals – Horizon Terminal, Ocean Cruise Terminal, City Cruise Terminal, Queen Elizabeth II Terminal and Mayflower Cruise Terminal.
Cruise services include:
Porterage services
Stores management and provision loading and unloading
Baggage handling
Mooring services
Mobility assistance
Rail and container services
The Solent Rail Terminal is an award-winning 18-acre facility encompassing an intermodal rail transport site with laden and empty container storage, maintenance, and repair within a single-site boundary.
Capacity for maximum of 15 services a day
Capable of servicing 750m trains
2 container sidings and a third bulk/run round siding
60 reefer plug points
Rail and container services includes:
Rail:
Train refuelling
Container shunting to and from the DP World container depot
Cargo loading/unloading
Container:
Reefer plug in and monitoring services
Insepections
Storage
Maintenance and Repair for dry van and reefer containers
Cargo loading/unloading
Dry Bulks
Berths 107, 108 and King George V Wet Dock, Western Docks
Dry Bulk commodities handled:
Recyclables:
Recycled Metal
Glass
Secondary aggregates
Construction:
Gypsum
Aggregates
Cementitious Products
Agricultural:
Fertiliser
Animal feed
Grain
Project Cargo
Heavy lifts generally take place alongside the deep water at the Port of Southampton.
Here Solent Stevedores operates in a key strategic position for international shipping lanes and a short distance from the UK motorway network.
With a wide range of equipment and a fully trained, experienced and flexible work force, Solent Stevedores is well placed to meet the lift-on, lift-off requirements of all types of project and general cargo.
Services:
HEAVY LIFTS:
Heavy Equipment Lifts
Yacht lifts
Tandem Lifts
Complex cargoes:
Out of Gauge container operations
Container Loading and De-vanning Services
LASHING & SECURING SERVICES
Equipment:
– Range of mobile plant and equipment up to 42 tonnes
– Numerous harbour mobile cranes with Tandem lift capability
– Lifting frames, beams and pallet frames suiable for a wide range of cargo operations
Using High Capacity Mobile Port Cranes, Solent Stevedores regularly transfer yachts and other craft from vessel deck to quay/water or vice-versa, and provides heavy lifts for large pieces of machinery and plant for international shipping.
Our modular spreader lifting frame has a capacity of 100 Tonnes at lengths of up to 11m – ideal for heavy lifts.
Solent Stevedores is an ITSSAR accredited training provider with four instructors delivering training on all plant and machinery for its employees, with two training managers specifically responsible for cranes and heavy lifts.
When heavy lifts take place, all employees are trained for Slinger/Banksman roles and Supervisors are Appointed Persons who can prepare the lift plans needed before starting.
For more information about Project Cargo and Heavy Lift services at the Port of Southampton, please get in contact.
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News
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Labour Party Visit to our rail and container operations at the Port of Southampton
In June we welcomed a visit from the Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves to our rail and container operations at the Port of Southampton. Sir Keir and Rachel were in Europe’s leading cruise turnaround port hosed by Associated...
Rail Minister opens new multi-million-pound rail investment at the Port of Southampton
The Minister for Rail and HS2, Huw Merriman, officially opened the new Solent Rail Terminal marking the completion of the £17.5 million partnership investment between Associated British Ports (ABP) and Solent Stevedores. The multi-million-pound rail upgrade...
Solent Stevedores appoints Mark Hooper as Director of Rail and Containers
Industry-leading cargo handler, Solent Stevedores, announces the appointment of Mark Hooper as Director of Rail and Containers across operations in the Port of Southampton and London Gateway. Solent Stevedores welcomes Mark, former Business Development Director for DP...