Potter celebrates 30-year deal with recycling firm worth £20m

POTTER Logistics, a family owned business with its headquarters in North Yorkshire, has secured a 30-year contract worth more than £20m.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Apr 2013, 01:01 BST

The Ripon-based warehouse, distribution and rail freight terminal operator, which has an annual turnover of £15.2m and 300 staff, has won the deal with recovery, recycling and waste management company SITA UK.

Potter Logistics, which serves the regulated chemical, agricultural, pharmaceutical and food industries, operates six distribution centres located in Droitwich, Ely, Knowsley, Ripon, Selby and York.

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Its latest contract win is at its rail freight terminal in Knowsley. It has been selected by SITA UK as the preferred site for a rail connected waste transfer station. The facility supports the 1.4bn euro Merseyside and Halton waste resource and recovery contract for which SITA UK has been appointed as preferred bidder by Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority.

The new waste transfer station will handle over 430,000 tonnes of residual household waste collected annually from Merseyside and Halton region.

The waste will then be transported by rail to a new energy-from-waste site in Teesside owned and operated by SITA UK.

At this facility more than 90 per cent of the contract waste will be diverted from landfill and used to produce energy.

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Matthew Lamb, managing director of Potter Logistics, said: “This 30-year contract is unique in the energy recovery and logistics sector, and is a major coup for Potter Logistics. Our Knowsley rail freight terminal was chosen by SITA UK from six possible rail accessed sites in the Merseyside region as the preferred location for its new multi-modal waste transfer station.

“The terminal benefits from the ability to handle longer, 600 metre-plus trains. It also has excellent road links to the rest of the North West with easy access to the motorway network.

“With two daily trains operating between Knowsley and Teesside, Potter Logistics intends to switch certain traffic from road to rail by utilising additional capacity on these rail services.

“This will secure additional freight between the ports of Liverpool and Teesside.”

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