Press Releases from Davies Turner (15 total)
Davies Turner Air Cargo hosts EU/China Customs fact-finding delegation
A high-level delegation of representatives from a joint EU/China Customs project studying the implementation and delivery of Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status accreditation has visited the London Heathrow HQ of Davies Turner Air Cargo (DTAC).
The delegation, led by officials from Chinese Customs and also including HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), French and Dutch Customs authorities, spent an entire working day at the DTAC offices, studying such matters as training…
DAVIES TURNER AIR CARGO MAINTAINS STATUS AS LEADING UK INDEPENDENT
In the latest IATA/CASS league table for 2007, Davies Turner Air Cargo has maintained its position as the UK’s highest placed privately owned independent freight forwarder.
The company’s chairman, Peter Castree attributes this to a number of factors.
Key is the company’s ongoing improvement of its global agency network working with carefully selected partners committed to providing optimum local coverage, facilities, quality systems, knowledge and experience world wide.
Furthermore,…
DAVIES TURNER HELPS TEHRAN BOOK FAIR COME OF AGE
Every year for the last 21 years that the Tehran International Book Fair has been held, Davies Turner has handled the delivery of books and publications to the event on behalf of many British and international publishing companies.
This year, the UK and Ireland’s leading independent freight services provider, had reasons of its own to celebrate the 21 years’ association – it carried its best-ever total by road to the…
Davies Turner Air Cargo receives AEO certificate
Davies Turner Air Cargo has been officially presented with its Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) certificate by HM Revenue & Customs. The airfreight forwarder recently became the one of the first AEOs in Europe.
Attached is a photo taken at a recent official presentation ceremony which took place at HM Treasury. It shows left to right: Denham Baxter (Managing Director - Davies Turner Air Cargo); Peter Castree (Chairman - Davies Turner…
DAVIES TURNER USES BLUE SKY THINKING ON GREEN INITIATIVES IN NEW BRISTOL DEVELOP …
Davies Turner’s determination that its operations are environmentally responsible is clearly demonstrated at the freight forwarder’s recently completed multi-million pound regional distribution centre at Avonmouth, Bristol.
The new development has been designed from the start to include the latest thinking to reduce its environmental impact, with some of the most sophisticated engineering currently available to achieve the company’s aim as well as blue sky thinking on how to make even…
DAVIES TURNER IRELAND STRENGTHENS SENIOR MANAGEMENT
The Davies Turner Group has strengthened the senior management of its subsidiary in Ireland with the appointment of Ciaran Delmar and John Culligan as Joint Managing Directors of Davies Turner Ireland Ltd. Both have joined from senior roles with Expeditors Ireland.
Philip Stephenson, Joint Managing Director of the Davies Turner Group, says: “These appointments show our customers and the market that we are serious in our ambitions to further enhance…
FORWARDER AND CUSTOMS SPECIALIST CO-OPERATE TO OFFER AEO CONSULTANCY SERVICES
A leading UK freight forwarder, already AEO-accredited, is co-operating with one of the country’s foremost customs duty consultancy firms to provide advisory services to companies also seeking to become Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs).
The AEO initiative is one of a series of measures being co-ordinated by the World Customs Organisation (WCO) as part of a multi-layered approach to facilitating trade whilst making supply chains more secure and controlled. In adopting…
DAVIES TURNER AIR CARGO FIRST WITH FULL AEO STATUS
Effective April 5th 2008, Davies Turner Air Cargo will become one of Europe’s first Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs).
The freight forwarder and logistics services provider has been advised by UK accreditation authority, HM Revenue & Customs that its AEO application has been successful and it has achieved full certification (Type F) which entitles the company to benefits under security and safety, as well as customs simplifications (effective July 1st 2009).
The AEO…
GROWING LOGISTICS BUSINESS DRIVES DAVIES TURNER INVESTMENT IN NARROW AISLE RACKI …
Davies Turner has made a major investment in narrow aisle racking at its Scottish freight hub in Cumbernauld as more shippers in Scotland choose the UK’s leading independent freight forwarder to provide logistics solutions.
The investment has created 1,000 pallet positions in high bay racking at the 2,200 sq. m. warehouse with aisles just two metres wide. Both the racking and forklift equipment are made in Britain whilst local contractors…
BIGGEST NOT ALWAYS BEST, SAYS DAVIES TURNER, AS M&A FRENZY CONTINUES IN THE UK L …
Significant structural changes in the UK logistics industry are seeing mergers and acquisitions of key players hit the headlines.
This creates an opportunity too good to miss for smaller and medium-sized operators who are ready to serve the markets the larger firms are leaving behind, considers Philip Stephenson, joint managing director of the UK’s leading independent freight forwarder, Davies Turner Plc.
Mr Stephenson believes that the more mergers and acquisitions…
DAVIES TURNER will cancel FSA regulation following UK Government’s about turn …
Davies Turner, the UK’s leading independent freight forwarder, has welcomed the UK Government’s confirmation that freight forwarders have been given an exemption from the scope of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) insurance regulations and will no longer need to be registered with the FSA to offer marine or cargo insurance direct to customers.
Comments Joint Managing Director, Philip Stephenson: “We first got an indication of the exemption in October last year…
DAVIES TURNER CHANNELS INVESTMENT INTO BRISTOL
Independent freight forwarder, Davies Turner - daviesturner.co.uk - has started to build a multi-million pound expansion to its existing freight and logistics hub in Bristol.
The overall warehouse area at Avonmouth will be tripled in size to give an overall footprint of 10,500 sq. metres.
The construction work comes just over a decade after Davies Turner opened its Phase 1 transit hub for the West Country at a cost then of £2…
DAVIES TURNER BAGS BRACE OF INDUSTRY AWARDS
Davies Turner has again been voted ‘Freight Forwarder of the Year’ in a nationwide shipping industry poll conducted by Informa, the leading international provider of specialist information and services for various business communities.
In winning the trophy, which was voted for by readers of Informa’s flagship export directory, Lloyd’s Loading List, Davies Turner saw off competition from two multinationals that had also made the final shortlist.
Comments Joint Managing Director, Philip Stephenson:…
DAVIES TURNER HELPS ROMANIAN CHARITY
Specialist educational equipment for use in a centre for children with mental and physical disabilities was shipped free of charge from the UK to Popesti Leordeni, Romania by leading British freight forwarding company, Davies Turner working with its partner in Romania, Gebrüder Weiss.
The new learning centre stems from an initiative of FARA, the charity which supports orphans and abandoned Romanian children.
Known as the Samuel Centre, it will be…
Davies Turner marks 25 years of partnership with GEBRÜDER WEISS
Davies Turner, the UK's leading freight services supplier, is marking the 25th anniversary of its strategic partnership with Austrian freight forwarder Gebrüder Weiss with enhanced services. The working relationship between the two companies was originally focused on the provision of freight forwarding services in the two-way trade between the UK and Austria only.
However, as Gebrüder Weiss has expanded its presence into other areas of Central and Eastern Europe, the relationship…
