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The new-build under development by P&P has a capacity
of 15,000 pallets, or 15,000 tons of fish. This brings the
company’s total storage capacity in IJmuiden to 50,000 tons,
general director Diek Parlevliet explains. The company also
has a cold storage facility on Texelstraat in the port area. “As
there is a shortage of space at transhipment companies in
IJmuiden and Velsen-North, we are even using a cold storage
facility in Zoeterwoude, although this is not ideal, logistically
speaking.” In addition to the eight P&P freezer trawlers
which regularly visit the port of IJmuiden, the location also
facilitates reefers with fish from the P&P facilities on the
Faeroes.
Peter van de Meerakker, port director Zeehaven IJmuiden NV.
The new facilities in the Haringhaven harbour are being
built in accordance with the four-star BREEAM certificate
(Excellent); the highest possible standard in the field of
sustainability. The new high-rise will be equipped with
movable racking with a maximum of seven layers for pallets.
The roof, with a surface area of 4,000 square metres, will be
equipped with solar panels which will supply a large part of
the required energy. Parlevliet: “We had solar panels installed
on the roof of our building on Texelstraat last year and they
have halved our energy costs.”
A new transhipment hall with six dock shelters (for trucks)
by the current complex also came into use last year. From
here, fish containers are transported by truck to the container
terminals in the Haringhaven harbour, then onwards by
inland vessel to a terminal in Rotterdam before being shipped
to long-distance destinations. Approximately two-thirds of
the P&P’s export leaves the IJmond region this way.
Explosive
Port director Van de Meerakker is happy with the leading
position of ‘his’ port in the international trade in deep-frozen
fish, but also qualifies the explosive growth in fish stock.
He says a relevant factor is that the export to Nigeria, an
important market for deep-frozen fish, has declined. Due to
the reduced oil prices the oil-rich African country has less to
spend on fish from the Netherlands. “But I am definitely not
dissatisfied with the preliminary results.” •
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