Rapid scrap turn-round at S. Norton

Archiv – Metal recycling company S. Norton & Co of Liverpool, UK, has demonstrated its handling prowess by taking only a little over 24 hours to load nearly 35 000 tonnes of fragmentised steel on board a vessel bound for India.Metal recycling company S. Norton & Co of Liverpool, UK, has demonstrated its handling prowess by taking only a little over 24 hours to load nearly 35 000 tonnes of fragmentised steel on board a vessel bound for India.
The actual loading time for the 34 648 tonnes loaded on to MV ’Gokcan’ was 27 hours 45 minutes, including normal clean-up operations to make the vessel ready to sail. Norton’€™s Export Director Charlie Norton comments: ‘€˜We are not sure if this is a record or not, but we know it’€™s very fast. We had to catch the tide and we did it. Vessel turn-round times are extremely important to our customers, as they affect the value of the cargoes and the cost of getting them to their destinations.’€™
Norton’€™s substantial export achievements were recognised last year when it secured a Queen’€™s Award for International Trade.