A trimodal logistics service provider that saves trees.

In order to provide the best logistic services as a distributor of metal products, it is important that you can respond to your client’s needs. Our clientele contains customers from all over the world and that means that goods come in from all places in the world and are transported to different destinations. As a seller, you want the most efficient way to get the steel products, steel sheets, coils and slit coils, to its destination. And there are several ways to do this.

 

Our Facebook account has already shown you pictures of our possibility to unload steel vessels at our locations in Maastricht at the Ankerkade. Particularly outstanding is that this location has a covered dock. This allows us to load and unload steel vessels under any type of weather conditions. This diminishes the chances of delays and makes it possible for us to meet our clients wishes for loading and unloading times as closely as possible.

 

But vessels are not the only transport possibility that Steel Solutions can process besides regular trucks. Steel Solutions has a unique location that also has rail access. This means that steel products can travel a long distances at a higher speed, reducing their transport time. This increases the chances of the products making it to their final destination without any damages.  Other than that is transport by rail much better for the environment. The train, of course, produces less CO2 than most means of transport. Compared to transport by trucks, it saves 1.350 trees. So ever since the first train arrived in 2009, every year we have saved a forest as big as 600 soccer fields. Our train transport also responds to a government policy to reduce the traffic on the road. Our trains equal a number 800 trucks a week that are now not on the motor way, but on the railway track.

 

 

At this moment, the railway track that Steel Solutions uses, is outside the building. It crosses the street to which the head office is situated. This results in two inconveniences. One, the train can only be unloaded at night when there is little to no traffic on the road. And two, we depend on good weather. We have strict rules concerning the unloading of trains so our employees are not allowed to unload the train whenever it is raining or snowing, yes it snows sometimes in The Netherlands. There are very clear instructions for the unloading of the trains in order to safeguard the condition of the products. Nevertheless are we proud to have this railway as one of our logistic possibilities. Mainly because the products from our client SSAB in Sweden arrive by train. Where these products used to make a detour, going from train, to boat, to truck, the products now come to Maastricht by train, without interim reloading and at a more direct route.

 

As a service provider that works for our clients, we want to keep improving our services. One thing in particular that we are excited about is the fact that the train track will soon find its internal location. The railway track will then be inside the head office at the Ankerkade. Meetings are being held and agreements are being made as we speak. The digging out of the parking lot has already started and we hope that the final agreements can be made within a short period of time. This is so that we can (a) unload trains during any time of the day (and night) and (b) that we can safeguard the quality of the products even better.

Maybe our train track can even be of use for your products? Transport by rail is simply faster, cleaner and more reliable.

We are excited about these developments and surely will keep you posted about them.