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King’s Award for Priority Freight

The Lord-Lieutenant of Kent has presented Priority Freight with The King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade at the company’s head office in Dover. The award recognises the company’s good business practices and significant, sustained growth in overseas sales. The Lord-Lieutenant, Lady Colgrain, presented the award to Priority chief executive Neal Williams at a ceremony on 4 September. Neal Williams said: “The logistics industry has suffered waves of challenges in the past few ... [+]

Priority Freight gains King’s seal of approval

Time critical specialist Priority Freight has won a King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in recognition of its good business practices and sustained growth in overseas sales. The company, founded in 1996, now employs nearly 300 people, operating from nine offices in the UK and Europe. Priority Freight won a ... [+]

Priority Freight supports young footballers

Dover-based Priority Freight is sponsoring Kent football team, Tyler Hill Youth FC. The year-long programme will help fund training sessions and provide players with new training kit for matches across the county. Tyler Hill Youth FC was established in 1993 and comprises multiple teams, from under-sevens to under-12s. [+]

Priority Freight sponsors mountain woman

Critical logistics firm Priority Freight is supporting Sophie Lavaud’s final ascent in her challenge to summit the 14 highest mountains on earth. Having dealt with 13 peaks in short order, including Annapurna (2019), Kangchenjunga (2019), Gasherbrum I (2019), Dhaulagiri (2021) and Lhotse (2022), Shishapangma (2023) and Everest (of course) her ... [+]

Priority on the move in Frankfurt

Dover-headquartered Priority Freight has relocated its German air freight hub to a new, larger facility in Frankfurt. It has taken a 325sq m office in Kelsterbach, close to the Cargo City North and is looking to recruit additional members of staff. [+]

(Less than) 24 hours Le Mans

Urgent logistics firm Priority Freight arranged a rapid courier delivery of £110,000 worth of microchips from Manchester to Le Mans in less than 20 hours recently to prevent a production line shut-down. Within an hour of the initial enquiry, it secured a driver and van, arranged ferry crossings, completed customs ... [+]

Priority Freight moves life-saving spare 7,000 miles in 48 hours

Urgent logistics firm Priority Freight delivered a life-saving spare part for a hospital scanner from the Netherlands to Namibia in 48 hours recently. The hospital faced problems when the only scanner on-site suffered a rare breakdown. Despite the best efforts by local engineers, the only way to resolve the issue was ... [+]

Priority promotes Poole

Priority Freight has promoted Martin Poole (pictured) to general manager at its Coventry control centre. He takes over the role from managing director Carl Partridge who will shortly take on a new role within the Group. Martin Poole joined Priority Freight as Operations Manager in  and has played a significant ... [+]

New German chief for Priority Freight

Priority Freight has appointed Frank van Doorn as general manager of the company’s Krefeld office in Germany. He will be responsible for driving the company’s premium road freight business in Germany, the biggest European market for automotive logistics, heading up the 20-strong team of logistics experts and working closely with ... [+]

Queens Award for Dover fast freight firm

Time-critical logistics operator Priority Freight has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. It was presented to the company’s group managing director Neal Williams by the Lord Lieutenant of Kent, Lady Annabel Colgrain, at a ceremony it its head office in Dover.Priority Freight’s highly experienced multilingual logistics specialists are committed to ... [+]

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