A ship which was built in 1997 to export forestry products has been named after a village in Fort William.
The vessel which is owned by the Wilson Group has been named The Wilson Corpach in honour of the port it has used for the past 18 years.
BSW Timber, which started exporting woodchips from its Fort William sawmill in the same year, has shipped over 1.5 million tonnes to Scandinavia for paper making.
Richard Scott, logistics manager at BSW Timber, said: “Since we started exporting from our Fort William saw mill, we have shipped over 1.5 million tonnes of woodchips from the port of Corpach, mainly to Scandinavian markets for paper making. There has been over 1,000 cargoes of woodchip since 1997, the equivalent of 63,000 lorry loads.”
To mark the homecoming of the ship, the captain Zolotukhin Evgeny was presented by ClydeBoyd with a bottle of Ben Nevis Malt Whisky which was produced in the local Fort William distillery.
Christine McColl, director of ClydeBoyd, said: “We are delighted that the ship has been named after our port. The port now handles over 300,000 tonnes of forestry products each year including woodchips from BSW’s Fort William sawmill.”
On its return journey The Wilson Corpach will take 2,000 tonnes of BSW Timber’s woodchips to Follafoss in Norway to be made into paper pulp.
A Challenges in Wood Industry event at the Slovenian national fair, Ambient, recently hosted a panel discussion on the development of the wood processing sector.
V okviru dogodka Izzivi v lesarstvu 2018 je potekala okrogla miza Razvoj primarne industrije – področje žagarstva - v Sloveniji.
In an interview for the STA Slovenian Press Agency, Alex Brownlie, Chairman of the BSW SI Board of Directors, spoke about the progress of the investment into a Slovenian wood processing centre. BSW Timber expects to have all permits for the construction of a €41m facility in Gomilsko in the coming months and to launch production in 2020 as scheduled.
Izvršni direktor za komercialo v BSW Timber Alex Brownlie je v pogovoru z Martino Gojšek za STA zatrdil, da ostajajo pri prvotni časovnici in da se postopek gradnje ne zamika. Potrebna dovoljenja za gradnjo pričakuje v naslednjih mesecih.
BSW was approached by the the Let's Be Engineers! initiative to discuss the company´s promotion of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to young people. In the interview for IRT3000 magazine, Alex Brownlie, Chairman of the BSW.SI Board of Directors, explained that the company wants to bring new people with fresh ideas into the sector.
Z vstopom na slovenski trg je podjetju BSW.SI, pristopila iniciativa Inženirke in inženirji bomo!, ki skrbi za promocijo znanosti, tehnologije in tehnike podjetij ter mladim predstavlja karierne priložnosti in spodbuja nadgrajevanje inženirskega znanja s poslovnim.
