Trent Ports

RMS Europe Group Limited owns and operates two wharves on the River Trent, a tributary of the Humber Estuary; these are located at Flixborough and Gunness. Both wharves are within three kilometres of the M180 motorway and within easy reach of the UK’s industrial heartland. The steel-making centre of Scunthorpe is only eight km away from Flixborough and Gunness.

Flixborough operates two NAABSA berths that are able to accommodate vessels up to a maximum of 100m, with a sailing draft of up to 5.5m on Spring Tides. These berths are serviced by overhead gantry cranes, capable of lifts up to 35 tonnes, and a mobile crawler crane for general grab or hook work. Loading shovels assist for the handling of bulk cargoes and a dedicated weighbridge and lorry wheel wash for bulk cargoes are located within the site.

Flixborough Wharf operates a dedicated steel terminal comprising of 13,380 sq m. In total 20,800 sq m of warehousing is available on site. We can also offer a dedicated rail crew and two locomotives which move traffic from the main Network Rail link onto our own line. We benefit from large sidings - allowing us to hold and shunt in excess of fifty wagons - and a complex of rail lines on the site, which means that wagons can be moved alongside the quay for easy access to vessels or shunted inside the steel terminal for overhead crane work.

Gunness also operates two NAABSA berths that are able to accommodate vessels up to a maximum of 100m, with a sailing draft of up to 5.3m on Spring Tides. These berths are serviced by mobile crawler cranes up to 20 tonnes SWL for general grab or hook work. Loading shovels assist for the handling of bulk cargoes and a dedicated weighbridge and lorry wheel wash for bulk cargoes are located within the site.

Gunness Wharf provides a total of 4,180 sq m of undercover storage and a reasonable area of outside storage on hard standing, supplemented by the Group’s satellite storage facility at Althorpe, which offers a further 8 Warehouses ranging in size from 929 sq m to 2,600 sq m. In total undercover storage of 10,219 sq m, together with substantial outside storage for bulk and packaged products, is available at Althorpe.

Working to BSEN ISO 9001:2000 standards for quality at both sites, Flixborough and Gunness can offer a range of value-added services, including container stuffing/de-stuffing, mixing and blending, bagging and packing, weighing, sorting and grading, and screening of bulk products.

RMS Trent Ports Ltd is registered in England, Company Number 3957665
Flixborough Wharf Ltd is registered in England, Company Number 1762380
Gunness Wharf Ltd is registered in England, Company Number 317586