In this episode we meet Jan Unander, a Swedish importer who had goods aboard the Ever Given and almost lost his business because of the delays. Jake Slinn, the owner of JS Global Cargo and Freight Disposal, takes us to the Port of Felixstowe to illuminate how much cargo went to waste as a result …
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A mobile crane, its massive gripping arm raised like a scorpion’s tail, rolls up to a multicolored stack of shipping containers at the Pentalver storage yard near Felixstowe, the largest container port in Britain. The machine grabs the top box, backs up with a beep-beep-beep, and sets it down onto the asphalt with a clang. …
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An Ipswich entrepreneur who had a hand in managing some of the cargo from the delayed container ship, the Ever Given, has been inspiring Suffolk New College business students. Jake Slinn, 22, business owner of JS Global which sees items that are abandoned at ports or illegal items destroyed, has returned back to college to inspire the next …
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What do you do with 50 tonnes of cabbages, six tonnes of memory foam pillows, a tonne of bottled water, 27 tonnes of animal feed or four huge drums of tomato paste? Disposing of unwanted or illicit cargo by the container or pallet load poses no challenge to entrepreneur Jake Slinn at J S Global Cargo and …
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A young entrepreneur from Ipswich is turning over £250,000 a year shredding tonnes of breast implants and destroying mouldy bananas. Jake Slinn, 21, founded JS Global two years ago at a desk in his bedroom when he spotted a gap in the market for the destruction of goods. Jake Slinn, 21, founded JS Global two …
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