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52 Nordic Countries and Baltic States / Western Europe International Transport Journal 35-36 2013Plans for a metal processing terminal in SzczecinTurning scrap metal into steelThe activities of Cronimet, a recycled metals processor, in the port of Szczecin started in2011. Now the company, which opened another facility in 2012, has announced that it isset to start with the construction of a metal processing terminal.The ground-breaking ceremony for theconstruction of a new terminal took placerecently in Szczecin. The company Cronimet,a subsidiary of the global CronimetHolding, has said that it will invest a totalof EUR 4.7 million in setting up the centre,in cooperation with the ports of Szczecinand Swinoujscie. The terminal willfacilitate the processing and handling ofalloy scrap, non-ferrous metals and toolsteels in the ports. Cronimet had establishedactivities there in the second halfof 2012. The investment company Ekoinwestis also involved in the terminal.The authorities of the maritime portsof Szczecin and Swinoujscie have signedthe corresponding contracts. Cronimetwill get the raw materials required bothfrom its own production centres as wellas from large Polish plants that deal inhigh-quality steel scrap. The secondaryraw material is already transported toSzczecin by trains and truck today, fromwhere it is forwarded to other Europeanports by ship. It is delivered to steel plantsin Finland, the Netherlands or Spain, dependingon the consignment concerned.The capacity of the new facility is expectedto amount to 250,000 to 350,000t ofscrap metal annually.«This new plant will enable us to furtherexpand our activities in the trade andrecycling fields in Poland and thus allowus to invest in regional markets,» MichaelVogel, chairman of Cronimet Poland,declared. The position of the new centreA new scrap metal handling terminal is beingestablished in the port of Szczecin.will enable the goods to be handled morerapidly and customers to thus get evenbetter delivery services.The company’s headquarters in Polandare in Inowroclaw. The parent companyitself is active worldwide, includingin Brazil and Russia.The environment for the new buildingwas fashioned in accordance with theneeds of the design. In February 2012Cronimet was granted a 30-year leaseagreement for a plot near the industrycanal in the port of Szczecin. cdwww.port.szczecin.plwww.cronimet.dePhoto: Port of SzczecinIn briefWoodland’s 25th anniversary. The EssexbasedWoodland Group, one of the UK’sleading independent freight forwarding andlogistics companies, recently celebrated its25th anniversary. Woodland was foundedby Kevin Stevens in Basildon in 1988, andhas now grown into a company that turnsover more than GBP 120 million a year andemploys 600 people.www.woodland-group.comTatex takeover now completed. Theintegration into FedEx of the French expressservice provider Tatex (formerly called TatExpress), which was taken over by the US integratorand CEP corporation last year, wascompleted around a year after the takeover,FedEx said recently. Tatex’s business activitieshave already been carried out under thename of FedEx Express France since Marchof this year.www.fedex.comUTi in London. The freight forwarding andlogistics corporation UTi Worldwide, whichis headquartered in Long Beach CA (USA),has moved into a new 3,100 sqm warehouseterminal near London Heathrow airport. Theplatform has video surveillance and accesscontrol facilities. www.go2uti.comPhoto: StefStef’s hands on EbrexStef is expanding its French network.The French cool chain transportationand logistics group Stef is planning totake over the company Ebrex France, anotherspecialist in the provision of reefertransportation and cool chain logisticsservices from the same country. Stef saidthat it had commenced sale negotiationswith the shareholders of Ebrex France.The acquisition will be subject to regulatoryapproval, of course. Ebrex France isbased in Thiais, southeast of Paris in theEssonne department. It generated sales ofapproximately EUR 141 million in financial2012, with 1,125 employees workingin 21 locations.rawww.stef.com; www.ebrex.frDB Schenker optimisingcapacities in BelgiumDB Schenker Logistics recently beganoperations in a new logistics centre withmore than 5,000 sqm of handling areas,70 loading bays and 2,900 sqm of offices.The centre is in Zwevegem (Belgium). TheEUR 13 million building offers excellentinfrastructure for domestic and internationaloverland transport services. Theterminal took a year to build on a 36,000sqm tract of land and is equipped witheco-friendly technology, including solarpanels, sensor-monitored lighting and agrey-water recycling system. Until operationsbegan, the 120 DB Schenker employeeswho now work there were based attwo sites in Waregem, 10 km away. Theyhave now been transferred to the newcross-docking terminal in Zwevegem, justa year after construction work on the facilitycommenced. The company SchenkerNV, a subsidiary of DB Schenker Logistics,is present in Belgium at locationsin Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen, Eupen,Willebroek, Zaventem, Zeebrugge andnow Zwevegem.rawww.dbschenker.com