EDITOR INTERVIEWS SHOP
With another member of the family being a grocer the business emerged from that point.
Alex was trained at Trinity House Navigation School in Hull, went to sea as a cadet at 16 with the Royal Fleet Auxillary and trained in both the Merchant and Royal Navy disciplines.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
In 2000 an opportunity arose for Alex and his father to take over at Huttons, which was even back then a long established leader in the UK ship supply industry. Alex ran the business in partnership with his father who retired in 2007 and has been the Managing Director since then.
With Alex’s
experience in the marine sector, specifically being a trained and qualified Navigational Officer working at sea for 6 years, means that he understands life at sea and the stresses and strains which goes with it and can therefore relate to his clients and customers requirements.
WIND INDUSTRY SPECIFICS When drawn on the differences between being involved in the maritime sector generally to that of our industry Alex relayed quite an interesting scenario which we had not come across before.
Alex explained that seamen who are used to travelling at sea all year round accept the difficulties in sourcing particular goods and services – they have lived with those situations and continue to live with it!
The offshore wind industry has however had to employ largely shore based workers and technicians who expect and demand the sort of goods/specific brands and services they have experienced wherever they have been based onshore.
This throws up challenges and has brought the supply industry to new levels of service where goods and services have had to meet those demands… wherever possible of course.
Alex has however taken this in his stride and likens the service to the cruise market in which the company is experienced, so is very happy to further develop and embrace future industry requirements.
INDUSTRY PROGRESS
From Alex’s point of view he has seen a rapid change in the last few years in that the industry has matured, become more professional, more hi- tech, more organised and the use of better equipment built specifically for the purpose. The influx of companies operating in the oil & gas industry with their experience over decades has also helped enormously.
WORKING TOGETHER
One message that Alex would like to get across is that he wants Huttons to work in partnership with his clients and customers to provide a one-stop-shop to meet their requirements.
Many vessel operators have in the past sourced individual goods and services from many individual suppliers giving the operators logistical nightmares at times. Alex explained that Huttons do all that for them so that all they need to do is make one phone call and they can be assured that their needs will be satisfied.
Huttons can supply a full range of products, provisions and consumables, arrange transport and logistics and therefore when clients are working to tight deadlines and timeframes they can deliver in one hit in any place throughout the UK at any time 24/7 and 365 days a year.
Huttons Group
Duncan McGilvray - Editor Wind Energy Network
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