Dachser’s dash for growth FORWARDING & LOGISTICS NEWS ROUNDUP


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Dachser UK is to move to a new £23 million integrated logistics centre close to its existing premises at Brackmills, Northampton. The 16-acre freehold site will include a 64,000 sq. ſt cross- dock and a 114,000 sq ſt contract logistics warehouse, plus offices. The project is expected to be completed in March 2014. Dachser’s UK managing


director, Nick Lowe said that, with space for a 65% increase in existing capacity for contract logistics and value-added services, as well as doubling the current cross-dock operation, “we are also looking to the future. We have incorporated provision for a 26,000 sq ſt extension of the cross- dock facility, a benefit that we fully anticipate making use of in several years’ time given our expectations for continued growth.”


The fact that Dachser owned


the freehold of the site meant that the freight operator had been able to tweak the design to a much greater extent than would have been possible under many leasehold arrangements. The Dachser group employs specialist DC designers, and the Northampton site had been customised to take into account the prevalence of curtainsider trailers needing side access in the UK – together with the need to service the end-loading units used on the international services. Dachser is a member of the UK Pallets and Palletline networks and handles a lot of double-deck curtainsider trailers. Dachser UK’s branches in


Dartford and Rochdale are also seeing a steady growth and a


FFG International has added a part load service from Izmir and Istanbul to all UK locations. Departures are weekly and sailing time is ten days. The forwarder says it is ideal for smaller consignments of tiles and crated marble.


Dachser has opened a sales office for the M4 corridor in Reading and appointed two business development managers to cover the region. Gary Fitchett and Darren Phillips have a total of over fiſty years’ service in the business between them. The office is a satellite of the existing regional sales team based at Dachser’s Dartford branch.


new sales office has recently been opened in Reading, serving the M4 corridor region. More branches in other areas of the UK are planned for the future. The plan is to add an operational base to the M4 corridor region – Reading itself and possibly Bristol too - at some time in the future and there are also plans for a depot in the Newcastle area. Meanwhile, more direct services into the UK hubs will


be developed, Lowe continued. Spain and Portugal are particularly promising, following the Dachser Group’s acquisition of the Azcar transport business in January. “We already have one or two direct services to Spain already, but I’m sure that will increase. Yes, the Spanish economy is in a poor shape at the moment, but it is a major one and I think it is fundamentally sound,” said Lowe.


Kellogg’s cornflakes take to the canal


Kellogg has increased the volume of breakfast cereals it will transport using Peel Ports’ Manchester Ship Canal container shuttle service. Peel claims that the Ship Canal shuttle service, branded the ‘green highway’ network is the most environmentally-friendly


bulk


logistics solution in the UK, and already serves other big brands such as Princes Foods, Kingsland Wine, Tesco, Typhoo, Regatta and another major global sportswear


brand. Some 2,500teu of Kellogg cereals will be


between the company’s Manchester, Ireland and Iberia distribution hubs in 2013 with containers transshipped at


Port of Liverpool on to a feeder service to Ireland and Spain. Kellogg has also taken


advantage of the Port of Liverpool’s flexible ‘on demand’ warehousing offering, storing up


transported


to 7,000 pallets of cereal product if required. Peel says that by using the


shuttle service, Kellogg will reduce road miles by 85% and save 61 tonnes of CO2 in the coming year.


the


Port centric logistics: the legal detail


Law firm Freeth Cartwright’s logistics sector team has published a white paper on risk management in the port centric supply chain. The growth of port centric


logistics is a challenge for lawyers because it calls for a more flexible procedure than the standard single or multi-user institutional warehouse lease. Different forms of legal documentation will be required, depending on the cargo, the product, the customer and the need to have use of a warehouse facility at or near a port. This will in turn require an open minded and fresh approach to allocating risk, says the paper.


Particular attention needs to


be paid to the draſting of the force majeure clause and what they should include – governments imposing trade sanctions, strikes or defaulting subcontractors,


for


example. Commercial lawyer, Raymond Joyce, comments:


“The growth


of port centric logistics is a challenge because the demands it creates cannot be satisfied by the traditional landlord/tenant model or the standard form of legal contract.” The White Paper


can be downloaded at: http://www.freethcartwright. co.uk/Transport


Yusen Logistics UK managing director Ian Veitch is to be the new president of the Freight Transport Association, taking over from Stewart Oades. Ian Veitch became chief executive of NYK’s merged UK logistics businesses in 2005 and became the first European board member of of NYK Group in Japan. His responsibilities increased and diversified in 2011 with the merger of Yusen Air & Sea and NYK Logistics, forming the new Yusen Logistics UK. He has been a member of the FTA Board since 2008 and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.


The Panalpina Group returned to profit in the first quarter of 2013 aſter last year’s loss said the company, in announcing a consolidated profit of CHF 14 million for the first three months of the year. Net forwarding revenue increased by 4% to CHF1,602m and gross profit by 0.5% to CHF 366 million compared to the previous year. Air freight continued to struggle in a shrinking market, but ocean freight grew comfortably above market.


UPS has appointed Jens Poggensee as vice president of freight forwarding for UPS Europe, responsible for the strategy, performance and revenue growth of services in more than 120 countries and territories in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Poggensee, a native of Hamburg, Germany, began his career in the transportation industry in 1981, and joined UPS in 2004 through the acquisition of Menlo Worldwide Forwarding. He will be based at UPS’s Europe region headquarters in Brussels.


Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new location in Mobile, Alabama. It will focus on logistics solutions to the aerospace industry as well as oil and gas and the marine sectors. According to the city’s Mayor, Sam Jones, the city is now home to more than 400 aerospace companies. KN is also establishing an office in the far eastern Russian port of Vladivostok, an an important location for the handling of inbound and transit cargo. It will be managed by KN’s existing operation in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. And it


is


extending its site in Geel, Belgium by an additional 30,000sq m to 75,000sq m. The site forms part of its Campus Kempen,which also includes an operation at Eindhout site, and focuses on European Distribution Centre projects with high added-value services.


DB Schenker has acquired all the shares of long-term partner Euro- Line Panamericana, one of Panama’s leading freight forwarders for ocean Imports. The new subsidiary will have a main office in Panama City, plus branches in Colon Free Zone and the airport. There are also two 1,500sq m warehouses in Colon Free Zone.


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