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The fast train from China

Davies Turner has made its weekly rail import LCL service from China more direct. When the service was introduced two years ago, multi country consolidation) containers were carried by rail from Wuhan into Warsaw in Poland, where consignments destined for UK were transshipped to a local bonded warehouse for a NCTS / T1 bond to be issued, then trucked via Dover to Davies Turner’s Dartford hub for subsequent customs clearance. ... [+]

Davies Turner doubles Glasgow airport site

Davies Turner Air Cargo has moved to a new site at the Hillington Park business estate, doubling doubled the size of its Glasgow branch. The airfreight subsidiary of the freight forwarder, which has had a base on the estate since 2004, now has a 10,000 sq ft, fully refurbished CAA-accredited ... [+]

Davies Turner sees warehouse demand surge on Brexit fears

Freight forwarder Davies Turner says it is seeing an upsurge in enquiries about the availability of warehousing space, driven by customer concerns about the outcome of the Brexit negotiations and the future of UK trade with the EU after March next year. Normally, warehousing demand often reduces in the early months ... [+]

Davies Turner adds more apprentices

UK independent freight forwarder and logistics company Davies Turner has recruited another 11 youngsters for this year’s trainee scheme, now in its ninth successive year. The new recruits will learn all aspects of Davies Turner’s business during the two-year apprenticeship and can be confident that like many of their predecessors who ... [+]

Turkish trade still a delight for Davies Turner

Freight forwarder Davies Turner remains positive about the trading outlook for Turkey despite the country's ongoing economic crisis and depreciating currency, according to chairman, Philip Stephenson He says that while the weakened Turkish lira and escalating tariff war between the US and Turkey might make life harder for British exporters it ... [+]

Davies Turner hits the heights in Bristol

Independent freight forwarder Davies Turner has fully opened its new multi-user distribution centre  near Avonmouth, Bristol. The 150,000sq ft building at Western Approach has a high bay fully racked area, and with an eaves height of 19 metres, is one of the highest in Europe for very narrow aisle (VNA) forklift ... [+]

Davies Turner gets on board the fast train to China

Davies Turner is adding an export LCL rail service from the UK to China one year after launching an import LCL and FCL rail service in the other direction. The first leg of the journey is by road, to Hamburg, from the operator’s Dartford hub. The train from Hamburg passes through ... [+]

Plaudit for Davies Turner portal

Davies Turner took the Customer Digital Experience Innovation’ title at the Innovation awards of its platform supplier, Outsystems. It was in recognition of the forwarder’s supply chain product, P2D – an online portal that enables customers to monitor and manage shipments at purchase order level. Davies Turner group chairman, Philip Stephenson, ... [+]

Davies Turner and Militzer & Münch join forces in North Africa

Freight forwarders Davies Turner and Militzer & Münch France have joined forces to develop services between the UK and the major countries of the Maghreb region of North Africa. The two companies have signed a partnership agreement to increase their business between the UK and Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. M&M France is ... [+]

Davies Turner recruits high-tech apprentices

Freight services company Davies Turner has recruited another 12 A-level school leavers and graduates for this year’s trainee programme. A new departure for Davies Turner’s apprentice scheme, now in its eighth year, is that this year’s intake includes two IT net developers who will join its IT software development team. All ... [+]

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