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Davies Turner has promoted Tony Cole to head of ocean to lead on its ocean freight forwarding services. He replaces Kieron Larkin who is to lead a strategic review of the company’s computer systems and software that will underpin all its freight forwarding services. Cole joined Davies Turner in 1990 and, as head of supply chain services, was instrumental in the launch and development of Davies Turner’s flourishing direct weekly ...
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“Get ready for January 2021 and find a freight forwarder to help you,” says a new film starring Davies Turner & Co director Alan Williams.Davies Turner, one of the UK’s largest independent freight forwarding companies was approached by HMRC to help with the public information broadcast for social media.The film ...
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UK importers are facing a “tsunami” of container shipping issues at present, says Tony Cole, head of supply chain services at freight forwarder Davies Turner. He cited: “Schedule disruption; ongoing delays in vessel discharge and loading, which is leading to ships ‘cutting and running’ or diverting; prolonged turnaround times on ...
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Davies Turner has added Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester to destinations directly served by its weekly fixed-day rail-road consolidation service from China to the UK, in addition to its Dartford. The forwarder and its Chinese partners to ensure that shipments destined for the same hub are loaded into the same container, ...
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The Environmental Management System (EMS) at four of Davies Turner Group’s regional distribution centres have gained ISO14001:2015 certification. Three of the hubs are operated by the company’s surface freight subsidiary, Davies Turner & Co, whilst the fourth is the Heathrow-based headquarters of airfreight subsidiary, Davies Turner Air Cargo. Measures are ...
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Davies Turner says that container traffic on its Express China rail freight service has doubled year-on-year. Weekly LCL volumes on the service have increased from one to two 40-foot high cube consol containers per week last year to three to four. Davies Turner says the news that April was the ...
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Davies Turner has postponed its 150th anniversary staff birthday party, due to be held on 20 June, until next year. It says that the UK's largest independent freight forwarding company (which is still in the same family ownership as it was in 1870) believes that the innovative thinking that has ...
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Davies Turner has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with the Dutch subsidiary of the Mainfreight Group. From 1 June, daily overland trailer services will operate between Mainfreight’s hub in ’s-Heerenberg on the Dutch-German border and Davies Turner’s regional distribution hubs at Dartford and Coleshill, offering groupage, along with collection and ...
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UK forwarder Davies Turner says that rerouting of several Asia to Europe sailings via the Cape of Good Hope rather than the Suez Canal has boosted business on its Express China Rail service. Much lower fuel bunker prices has seen a sharp upturn in the number of container services being ...
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Davies Turner has handled a shipment donated by the Hunter Boot company for the London Ambulance Service - 25 pallets of Women’s Original Tall wellingtons, which help protect staff in the fight against COVID-19.
Hunter Boot recently appointed Davies Turner as its UK logistics partner to handle all inbound freight forwarding of ...
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