TIMBERRRRRR

Timberlink Service uses coasters to ship 100,000 tonnes of timber a year from the Argyll ports of Ardrishaig, Campbeltown, Portavadie and Sandbank to the Port of Troon in Ayrshire (see extra blip). It then is taken to 4 local processing plants such as the Caledonian Paper Mill in Irvine. This saves 8000 long distance lorry journeys from Argyll to Ayrshire on tricky roads like the A83 which can get blocked by landslides