Our home town's reputation as 'the hub of Scotland' was recently further enhanced by a five million pound development programme, recently announced by Edinburgh based owners Forth Ports. This is welcome news for the local economy, customers, shipping lines and importers / exporters alike. Grangemouth's container terminal (which is the oldest in the UK) is set to benefit, with new methods of container handling and improved IT tracking of the 'boxes', allowing a doubling of existing capacity. In recent years container volumes at the port have risen by 10 % per annum.

Painting The Past

As a family run company we're always aware of our local roots, with Catherine and Iain being the fourth generation of Mitchells to work and reside in Grangemouth. With this in mind, last year we commissioned a nostalgic painting by the foremost road transport artist, Alan Spillett. The result is "Gateway to the Highlands", a superb study of our first 32 ton Seddon truck delivered in the late 1960's, set against the snowy backdrop of Stirling Castle, The Wallace Monument and the old A9 leaving Bridge of Allan.

The authenticity of the scene is completed by the Sea Land container trailer, one of many we hauled north to Speyside during that particular era. We have on offer a very limited amount of fine art prints of this evocative painting, please see our merchandise section at the end of this newsletter.