SECTION SPONSOR
PORTS & PORT SERVICES
KEEPING AHEAD OF THE GAME IN RENEWABLES
Seimens’ announcement that it intends to build a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Hull has been given a resounding thumbs up by businesses across the city.
After months of waiting and with the rumour mill running riot, the eleventh-hour deal could not have come soon enough to a region that has been waiting on tenterhooks for the news on the development.
Rix Cheetah on the Humber
The company also established its latest subsidiary, Rix Sea Shuttle, to work in the new industry, which adds to its other marine businesses Rix Shipping and Maritime Bunkering.
A LOT TO OFFER
James Doyle, Managing Director of Rix Sea Shuttle, said: “We always intended on being ahead of the game with renewables because we felt our expertise in the shipping industry gave us a lot to offer the industry.
things we could bring to the industry. As the offshore industry attracts more companies to the Humber we have created warehousing facilities for those companies. If they need temperature controlled storage, we can supply it. If they need workshops to service or develop technical equipment, again, we can supply it.
“It is about offering support that starts onshore at the port and goes right the way through to when the engineers step off the boat to work on the turbines.”
SUPPLYING FUEL
The other major aspect of the Rix group is fuel – ranging from residential heating oil to marine gas oil to commercial diesel and lubricants – and that makes up an important part of the company’s service provision also.
Rix tanker with Maritime Bunkering J.R. RIX & SONS
One firm that welcomed the announcement is J.R. Rix & Sons which has operated ships on the Humber for more than 100 years and has been a well known name in East Yorkshire for 140 years.
EARLY INVESTMENT
The fifth generation, family owned business was one of the first in the region to invest heavily in the renewables sector by placing a £7.5m order for five crew transfer vessels designed to transport engineers and equipment to and from wind turbines.
“We have worked boats in the Humber for more than a century and, as a business, know it better than most and that knowledge will always be useful to companies coming into the region that need to negotiate the estuary.”
DIVERSE BUSINESS
But the company’s involvement with renewables isn’t restricted to operating crew transfer vessels.
Rix has for many years supplied a host of services both on and off shore to the maritime industry which are as relevant now as at any point during its past.
James said: “J.R. & Sons is a diverse business so we felt there were other
FURTHER INVESTMENT
Last year Maritime Bunkering Ltd invested £100,000 in installing a second double- skinned 100 m3 fuel tank on the Port of Grimsby East, in a joint venture with Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises.
Nikki Jessop, Director of Maritime Bunkering, said: “The tank was installed to accommodate a growth in boats serving the offshore industry from the port, which is used by Siemens and Centrica.
“Maritime Bunkering’s barges are also being called upon to refuel more vessels associated with the wind farm industry in the Humber.”
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