Case Studies:
Local Port –
Clients Requirements:
During the winter months when temperatures drop, our customers require gritting services to ensure safe access and movement of vehicles throughout the port area and to ensure safe operations can continue 24hours a day. Our gritting services cover the entire port area including main passenger terminals, cargo terminals, cruise terminals, access roads, holding lanes and piers. We also provide a snow clearance service across the port should snowfall occur
Services provided to address the client’s needs:
Throughout the winter period our gritter remains at the port. Daily temperatures and weather conditions are monitored by us and when temperatures drop below zero, we contact the port. When gritting is necessary, we visit the site at a time scheduled in consultation with the port, making sure the salt is spread as close to the time of any ice formation. We keep an eye on the situation at the Port during snowfall events and attend with tractors equipped with snow ploughs to clear any snow around the site.
Eurotunnel UK Terminal –
Clients Requirements:
Within the Eurotunnel UK Terminal our client requires safe access for vehicles during cold periods. To ensure safe boarding by vehicles during snowfall periods our client requires clearance of snow across all platforms.
Services provided to address the client’s needs:
When the weather forecast advises of freezing conditions, our gritting team will be dispatched to the client’s site where access points across the site will have a non-corrosive de-icing solution applied to them. Our tractors when undertaking snow ploughing also apply a de-icing spray to aid the melting of snow on the platforms ensuring the safe movement of vehicles onto the trains.
Designer Outlet Shopping Centre –
Clients Requirements:
When temperatures drop below zero our client requires a gritting service to keep continued safe access for delivery and visitor vehicles. Car park access is only possible when the shopping centre is shut. In the event of snowfall snow clearance is also required to ensure continued safe access to the shopping centre.
Services provided to address the client’s needs:
Every day, we keep an eye on the weather in Kent and the South-East. We inform the client of any potential weather risks in their location and verify if our services are necessary so that we can undertake gritting and any snow clearance before their employees and customers arrive. Our tractors fitted with snow ploughs provide a snow clearance service in the event of snowfall. This snow clearance is followed by gritting to aid the melting of any snow or ice that the snow plough cannot reach.