Fresh Group suspends the activity of the terminal yields Liverpool Produce Terminal



British Fresh Group, company to which is under responsibility a series of branches that they operate in the field of the logistics of the fruit and that they occupy beyond 1.000 people, has announced the decision to temporary suspend the activity of the Liverpool Produce Terminal (LPT), the terminal of the port of Liverpool that the group has acquired last year in order to make of own hub logistic for the market of the northern area of the United Kingdom.

Fresh Group has specified that in the next few months they will be under way consultations with employees of the terminal, than currently appoints to a job 40 people, after which a decision on the future in the long term of Liverpool Produce Terminal will be assumed.

The objective of Fresh Group was to use the terminal of Liverpool in order to concentrate the imports to you of destined fruit to the distribution centers. "Although the operating benefits have come true - it has explained the British group - the structure have not captured the producing volumes of necessary in order to turn out sustainable from the financial point of view".

Moreover the company has explained that, "in this moment of economic difficulty, and before the start of the full season of the Spanish citruses, the decision is assumed to concentrate to Evesham and Paddock Wood the activity of packaging of MMG and Primafruit (filial of the British group, ndr) while the consultation procedure will be carried out". Therefore beginning from next saturday the activities of packaging and shipment currently carried out to the Liverpool Produce Terminal will be transferred to Evesham and Paddock Wood.

"He is absolutely daunting - the executive director of Fresh Group has declared, Chris Mack - to have due to admit the defeat and to temporary suspend the activity to the Liverpool Produce Terminal. The team, is to LPT that elsewhere inside of the group, has completed a gigantic effort in order to do so as that this initiative had happened. However we are trying to grow in a moment of remarkable change for our section. The fact is that until to hour, although it has provoked great interest, little people of the field has been ready to support LPT addressing volumes towards this new door of the market. Al moment the economic context is difficult and must concentrate all our managerial resources, financial institutions and, in order to maximize the efficiency of all our activities".

Mack has specified that the group has had also to take note that some of the possible economic benefits deriving from I use it of the terminal of Liverpool are made useless "by the announcement of this winter of a meaningful increase of the marine transport costs from the North of Spain".

"If there is a way in order to make to work LPT - it has concluded Mack - we will find. If this will not be possible, it presses me to emphasize that the failure of the initiative will be determined by the current economic scene and do not give brushed off a team".

The Liverpool Produce Terminal covers an area of 8.361 square metres and has a dock of 183 linear meters with -11 backdrop meters.