Paper trail for Port of Liverpool

The first early-morning arrivals – carrying as much as 700 tonnes of paper in up to 14 specialist rail cars – were shared by two of the print industry’s top suppliers: Stora Enso, one of the world’s largest paper and packaging manufacturers, and the German producer Leipa GmbH.

They included the largest reels of paper produced in Europe, each 4 m long and weighing 6.5 tonnes, supplied by Leipa to a new pressroom established by Prinovis in Liverpool. Leipa’s consignments are transported by train across Germany from Schwedt on the River Oder and through the Channel Tunnel to the UK, where they join up at Doncaster with rail cars containing Stora Enso’s paper, which is shipped from its mills in Sweden and Finland into the UK’s east coast.

The regular paper trains arrive Monday to Friday at the Port of Liverpool, and are discharged by specialist paper terminal operator Stanton Grove, which has a modern 100,000 sq ft warehouse equipped with an over-the-track canopy to protect against the weather.