Wincanton has announced that it has won a new five-year contract to provide warehousing solutions to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to support its counter pollution response capability, following a competitive tender process.
Wincanton will manage the storage of approximately 500,000 litres of aerial dispersant chemicals to be available, if required, in the event of an oil or chemical spill in UK waters to break up pollutants and accelerate the process of biodegradation. Wincanton will also be responsible for managing the sampling and testing of these chemicals to ensure that they remain effective and ready for immediate distribution if called upon.
The contract will be operated from Wincanton’s shared-user facility at Middlewich and will benefit from the significant operational capability and the highest levels of compliance this site provides. It is highly important that in the event of an incident the chemicals are able to be rapidly deployed, if required, and Wincanton’s expertise in bulk storage solutions will deliver significant improvements in this regard.
Carl Meewezen, Managing Director for Public and Industrial at Wincanton, said:
“We are very pleased to have been chosen to work with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. This contract sees us dealing with chemicals that require carefully managed storage and the ability to quickly prepare them for deployment, both of which are enabled by the expertise of our people and operations. This contract win is a further demonstration of the strong reputation we have built in the public sector and the trust that major institutions place in us.”
