SPONSORS OF REGIONAL FOCUS
ABNORMAL LOAD SERVICES (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED
Ships Agency, Cargo Handling, Chartering, & Marine Warranty Surveying under one roof.
MOVING AWKWARD CARGO ALS has developed a broad range of specialised transport and logistics services for the global movement of abnormal loads and project cargo for the: renewable energy, oil & gas, tunnelling, mining and construction/capital equipment sectors. They provide a unique and comprehensive Nationwide Maritime & Ports Service to Vessel Owners, Cargo Owners, & Freight Forwarders alike.
The team who have many years experience, and specialise in bulk, break- bulk, heavylift, supply chain and project services complement the complete service package ALS provides to their existing clients.
WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY ALS has recently provided UK port and vessel agency services for 3 x N80 R 60 wind turbines for Lairg Wind Farm and phase 1 – importation phase for Drone Hill Wind Farm for 9 wind turbine towers from 3 vessels. A further 13 wind turbine towers are to follow to complete the project.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT Using the latest technology to provide an ‘onboard office’ environment for better supervision, and adopting a ‘Control Tower’ Management concept, ALS attends vessels across the United Kingdom from afar as Southampton in the South, to Scrabster in the North of Scotland, providing clients with the entire range of services necessary for a vessels call or the handling of your cargo, whether it be for loading, discharging, or simply
SINGLE SOURCE SOLUTION Believed to be a unique service, due to the fact that it is understood to be the only such company to have fully qualified staff in the ships agency, cargo handling, chartering, & marine warranty surveying profession as directly employed staff by their Hull headquarters without sub-contractors, ALS therefore provides a comprehensive, nationwide, single source solution.
MARINE SURVEYOR ALS’ fully accredited marine surveyor and consultant complements the marine department.
Recently having returned from South Africa to the United Kingdom, ALS’ new colleague is a Member of the International Institute of Marine Surveying (I.I.M.S), Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers and a Member of the Maritime Law Association of South Africa.
‘vessel requirements’. These systems complement ABP’s own PAVIS/Agents Online Systems for vessel management across their entire UK port range.
He was instrumental in South Africa in conducting mining and civil engineering machinery landed and warranty condition surveys as well as providing consultative support at company senior executive level to various equipment supply companies and maritime advocates and lawyers.
RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANIES INVESTING IN THE REGIONS FUTURE WORKFORCE
ECOTRICITY Four of those 11 apprentices are with Ecotricity, a green energy company that now have 17 wind parks operating across the UK with 53 turbines. Jacob Lofthouse, Hulls first wind energy apprentice is currently in his second year of his apprenticeship as a wind turbine operations and maintenance technician.
Mike Smith
HETA have been training engineering and manufacturing advanced apprentices since 1967 across Humberside. Their number of client companies is currently over 140 including BP, Reckitt Benckiser, Saint Gobain Glass, Smith & Nephew, Conoco Philips, Total LOR, Centrica and many more.
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www.windenergynetwork.co.uk Jacob Lofthouse
BESPOKE RENEWABLE ENERGY APPRENTICESHIP Over the last 2 years, HETA have developed a bespoke renewable energy apprenticeship to meet the demand of the wind industry. They now have 11 apprentices who are at various stages of the 4 year apprenticeship and looking to forge a career in Wind energy.
Ecotricity Head of Project Operations, Simon Vince said “We have formed an excellent working relationship with HETA who have demonstrated that they are very flexible & accommodating with this specialist industry requirements, and they have proven to be able to train and supply the industry with first class wind turbine engineering apprentices. Being local to our main Service Centre and to a significant number of our wind turbine
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