For the third successive year, the Davies Turner Group have been presented with an internationally-recognised award by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, RoSPA Gold Award, further solidifying this company’s position as a worldwide freight and logistics partner.
Davies Turner provides pioneering direct UK weekly rail services in conjunction with their long-term partner in China, Air Sea Transport, who has years of experience in the China rail sector.
Since 2016, Davies Turner have operated China to UK rail services for full load (FCL) and groupage (LCL) shipments, assisting clients with their supply chain needs by reducing shipping times in comparison to Sea Freight. The availability of their import rail services has been vital to clients since the advent of the pandemic, where many importers witnessed shipping line ocean transit time delays, port delays and air freight became cost prohibitive for many large volume or dense cargo shipments.
With confidence and demand for China rail freight services soaring, as evidenced by the 50,000th China-Europe intermodal train embarking on its journey towards the west at the beginning of February this year, Davies Turner have introduced and support a dedicated weekly eastbound rail service for LCL cargo, having undertaken successful trials.
Established over 150 years ago and as one of the first companies in Europe to become accredited as a Full Authorised Economic Operator, this forward-thinking company is now a bona fide international freight forwarder, with an award-winning pedigree.
The group has 15 UK branches, including a head office in Birmingham.
We caught up with Andrew Ford, Branch Manager in Rotherham, Yorkshire to find out more, “The Rotherham branch specialises in awkward and out-of-gauge shipments, shipping many vehicles ranging in sizes and type to small rail engines as well as large machinery moves around the world. Alongside this they offer standard freight forwarding – which means the Rotherham Branch can assist in almost all enquiries they receive: ‘from an envelope to a large project.’”
“We have an extensive knowledge of the services that we offer within our branch, with our dedication to detail to ensure where possible shipments smoothly and clients are updated should there be any delays out-of-our-control.”
“We have had a good start to this fiscal year, which was surprising with the current downturn in world trade. Our short-term plan is to improve our office environment with some renovations and also look at team building activities that had to be suspended throughout COVID. We are also looking at more training for our staff so they can gain even more experience and knowledge to help assist our clients.”
Despite most of the COVID-pandemic restrictions lifting and shipping costs starting to decrease, the world of international freight still has to contend with the challenges posed by the war in Ukraine, port strikes and a near-global recession.
Davies Turner offers a light at the end of a gloomy tunnel with its express freight rail service and its extensive European overland portfolio with direct groupage, part load and full load trailer services. Customers can choose between express transit and super-express options, in a thoroughly streamlined system.
This year’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Health & Safety Awards have been added to a growing collection of awards: the prestigious European Logistics Category Award from The British International Freight Association (BIFA), shortlisted for the Supply Chain Management category and now Building Update’s logistics Company of the Year, which has delighted Andrew and his team, “We are obviously very pleased to be selected, we pride ourselves in the service we offer to our clients and we appreciate the recognition.”
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