Port of King's Lynn - Associated British Ports

Cargoes

Photographs taken by John Barrett LRPS © 2011

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Dry bulks

Representing an investment of £3.8m, the port's Alexandra Silo Complex was the first of its kind to be built within a port and opened up valuable export and domestic markets for East Anglian growers. Used to store and process malting barley, the complex has a 25,000-tonne capacity and provides state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. Growers deliver directly to the high-input, high-output dock-side silo, reducing inland transportation and storage expense and improving efficiency.

A further 6,000-tonne silo and supplementary flat store for cereals and pulses is operated by Agrilynk Ltd from its Bentinck Dock facility. Four purpose-built bulk stores, located at Riverside Quay, offer storage for up to 14,000 tonnes of cereals and agribulks. A 9,000-tonne capacity store for agribulks is also in use.

The port is well equipped with rail-mounted cranes, hydraulic excavator cranes and a Liebherr mobile harbour crane, together with a range of high-capacity mobile grain elevators, enabling efficient loading for cereal exports.

Agribulks and aggregates are handled both in-dock and on Riverside Quay, via dedicated covered storage or open storage areas.

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