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 Freight Disposal, who recently moved into a new office at Masterlord’s Epsilon House. He started the company just three years ago at home and now runs a £500,000 business with his brother Jez.
It’s an impressive achievement for the 22-year-old, who saw a gap in the market for the safe and environmentally sensitive disposal or reselling of products coming into the UK through ports at Felixstowe, Liverpool, London Gateway and Grangemouth in Scotland. His role in disposing of containers from the Ever Given container ship that blocked the Suez Canal was featured on BBC News and in the EADT and Ipswich Star.
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