Established in 1983, Stanton Grove is now at the forefront of Forest Products Port Terminal Operations in the United Kingdom.
On the River Mersey at Royal Seaforth Dock, Liverpool is equipped to handle the largest forest products vessels and ideally located for the warehousing and distribution of paper, woodpulp and timber to the North of England, the Midlands and Scotland.
Stanton Groves Tilbury Terminal offers the largest purpose built Forest Products Terminal in the South East of England, and is within 15 miles of Central London.
Liverpool, and Tilbury both offer Freeport status for goods entering the European Community.
Stanton Grove is a company dedicated solely to forest products with personnel experienced in stevedoring, warehousing, and transportation of damage-sensitive commodities.
The most modern computerised inventory and tracking systems, enable real time tracking of all of our customers products down to individual unit level.
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Stanton Grove has become the leading independent logistics supplier to the Forest Products industry in the UK. This has been achieved through listening to our customers, and developing the skills, systems, and standards that they require. Leading the way in innovation and development to ensure that we are able to provide our customers with tailored and cost effective logistics solutions. Stanton Grove is uniquely positioned to give nationwide coverage to our customers through our network of Port and Rail Terminals.
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This excellent deep water Terminal has 280,000 sq. ft. (27,500 sq. mtrs.) of covered Forest Products warehousing, all adjacent to 3 deep sea berths able to take the largest Forest Products carrying vessels. Stanton Grove's Liverpool Terminal is the ideal site is to attract Forest Products cargoes from anywhere in the world.
With further advantages including Freeport status, excellent road, rail, and sea networks, adjacent to the Port of Liverpool's Euro Rail terminal and container terminal. Stanton Grove's Liverpool terminal offers widespread opportunities for any Forest Products carrier.
In addition, Stanton Grove manage the stevedoring operation, ensuring complete control over every element from ship's hold to end user.
Liverpool Rail Terminal & Head Office
Stanton Grove has been established in the Forest Products industry since 1983. The Head Office is located in L.I.F.T (Liverpool Intermodal Freeport Terminal), within the Liverpool Docks.
The growth in containerised Forest Products provided an opportunity to take on a newly built container warehouse and relocate the Head Office on this site in the Summer of 2000.
Stanton Grove operate centralised administrative functions at the L.I.F.T Head Office including IT, Stock Management, Call-Off's, Quality Systems, Customer Services, Transport Management, and all commercial activity is centred here.
The warehouse terminals all operate as 'satellites' to the Head Office, and are linked via private circuits. The company operates out of two ports, both strategically located in key gateways in the UK. This strategy benefits our customers with the Working Time Directive which was implemented in 2005, affecting road haulage within the UK.
The Container and Rail Terminal adjoining the offices measure 98,000 sq. ft. (9,100 sq. mtrs.) of modern warehousing space, with a polished concrete floor ideal for paper storage. The warehouse has a dedicated container docking facility, which adds to efficiency of the operation, and Stanton Grove operates three permanent shunt vehicles with stand trailers from the Liverpool Container Terminal, which is about 3/4 mile from the L.I.F.T facility.
The facility is also rail connected with an established pathway to the National Rail Network. The rail sidings runs into a covered area of the facility. With congestion and environmental impact becoming an increasing issue, our rail facility provides a distribution hub in the North West that enables our clients to reach their markets by-passing the potential delays on the road network.
Tilbury - Finnish Terminal
Stanton Groves Tilbury Terminal offers the largest purpose built Forest Products Terminal in the South East of England within 15 miles of Central London. The terminal comprises of 628,000 sq ft of modern warehousing, two deep sea ro-ro berths, a 30T container gantry crane combined with fleet of specialist dedicated plant and a highly skilled and experienced workforce handling up to 750,000T of Forest Products per annum providing an unsurpassed Forest Products distribution facility close to the major UK markets. The terminal operates our highly developed Rubicon warehouse management system enabling the real time tracking of all of our customers products down to individual unit level.
With twice weekly sailings from the Baltic and easy access to deepsea container services our Tilbury Terminal provides a natural hub for the storage and distribution of Forest Products throughout the UK and worldwide. We have a wide portfolio of existing customers benefiting from our excellent location and facilities, we are not only able to handle bulk volumes but also offer order picking and distribution down to individual case and package level tailoring our services to meet our customers requirements in an increasingly demanding and competitive market.
Now with Freezone Trader approval for the Tilbury Terminal, Stanton Grove can offer a competitive and flexible service for Forest Product shippers needing a warehouse and distribution facility very close to the area of highest population density in the UK - Greater London and its surrounding areas.
Whatever the shipping method by road, sea or container our Tilbury Terminal offers an unsurpassed location and facilities for the expert storage and distribution of all types of forest products.
Stanton Grove has been operating the Rubicon system since 2003 and since then it has gone from strength to strength, operating at all sites, processing a wide variety of products.
Our customers also enjoy great benefits of the tailored functionality of the software we have built in partnership with Rubicon since project stage. EDI messages, in many formats, using many transmission methods, are easily set-up and self-maintained to our customers and even to their customers too. Likewise, with the powerful reporting facilities we have adopted at Stanton Grove, customers can be set-up to receive automated reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis covering anything from receipts, stock inventory, to deliveries. The reports can be tailored to fit with the individual, and specific requirements of the customer which can be sent as a Word Document, Excel Spreadsheet, or Adobe PDF.
The many reporting options also allow our own staff to provide thorough research into stock movements for customers; from individual unit numbers through to a history of a particular batch.
We are now proud to offer our customers a new level of system access via a standard internet connection that can provide our partners with secure and on-demand tailored reports, from anywhere in the world. With easy to use system access, we can also provide remote desktop assistance to demonstrate 'hand-held' support of the system if required.
It should also be noted that stock accuracy, through regular physical stock checks is higher than its ever been in Stanton Grove's history due to the precision of the Rubicon system, and the expertise of the staff operating it.
If would like more information on the Stanton Grove system, please contact us on: IT@stantongrove.com
Head Office: Alexandra House, Liverpool Intermodal Freeport Terminal, Bootle, Liverpool, L20 1HA
Telephone: +44 (0)151 944 4600
Fax: +44 (0)151 944 4601 or +44 (0)151 944 4602
E-Mail: contactus@stantongrove.com
Registered Office: Seacon Group Ltd. Tower Wharf, Northfleet, Kent, DA11 9DB
