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SPECIAL FEATURE TOP 30 UK LOGISTICS SERVICE PROVIDERS TOP 30 UK Logistics Service Providers 2021 www.ciltuk.org.uk 21 SPECIAL FEATURE TOP 30 UK LOGISTICS SERVICE PROVIDERS CILT has compiled its list of top logistics service providers as reported in the UK, recognising your logistics partners who best exemplify excellence. The list has been formed by assessing a range of key criteria, annual reports and the European Commission. Evaluating data such as financials, performance, professional accreditation, the gender pay gap and human resource factors, CILT has formed its forth annual Top 30. Has your organisation made the list? BULKHAUL UNIPART LOGISTICS Total score: 9.38 30 Total score: 9.96 28 Bulkhaul Limited is dedicated to the global transportation Unipart Group brings together manufacturing, logistics CLAIRE WALTERS, CHIEF COMMERCIAL of liquids, powders and gases. With consistent annual and consultancy in a set of products and services that OFFICER, UNIPART LOGISTICS growth and a fleet of over 23,000 deep-sea liquid isotanks, create imaginative solutions for its customers. Its roots which are 100% owned, it is one of the world’s largest are in manufacturing within the automotive sector, but its Congratulations on being named in the CILT Top 30. independent. Headquartered in the UK, it operates in history has required it to reinvent itself several times in What does this mean to your organisation? more than 150 countries. The board of directors and order to maintain a competitive advantage. Being able to management team combine many years’ experience in offer its customers lessons from its own journey of We are really proud to be recognised in the CILT’s the sector, supported by a highly skilled team of reinvention has never been more relevant than in today’s Top 30 list, which exemplifies excellence across our employees. Safety plays a crucial role in the movement fast-changing world, where new technology and new profession. Covid-19 shone a light on the critical of hazardous goods and Bulkhaul continuously invests competitors are swiftly eroding traditional competitive nature of supply chains across all sectors, and in the training and development of all employees as advantage. demonstrated the ever increasing importance of resilient, efficient and sustainable solutions. New well as its agency partners. unipart.com/logistics ways of collaborating continually emerge, and it’s bulkhaulglobal.com 01865 778966 great to recognise our collective ability to respond, [email protected] scale up and innovate to deliver critical and value-adding service solutions. What are the standout achievements your organisation has experienced over the last year? Keeping our people safe has been the main one. I’m also proud that we have continued to deliver MENZIES DISTRIBUTION P&O FERRYMASTERS excellent service to all our customers and meet CORPORATE their new and different needs throughout the Total score: 9.63 MEMBER 29 Total score: 12.8 27 pandemic. We mobilised dedicated operations and a customer service centre in days to deliver Menzies Distribution has been delivering across the UK P&O Ferrymasters is one of the leading European essential equipment to the NHS front line. We also since 1833, to and from every high street, as well as providers of tailor-made road and intermodal transport secured major new contracts, including the new reaching the areas others cannot. Today, it is Logistics and logistics solutions. Beginning life as a haulage 3 million ft2 global parts logistics contract with UK’s most innovative business of the year. With a strong company in Preston, Lancashire, in 1953 the company Jaguar Land Rover, a new contract in our focus on the future, sustainability and innovation, it keeps initially specialised in moving freight from the UK to technology sector, and one assembling Covid-19 moving forwards. For ambitious organisations, it develops Belfast under the name of Northern Ireland Transport test kits to support the return to normal. and deploys new technologies and business models that Services. Today, P&O Ferrymasters specialises in the make supply chains smarter, more flexible, sustainable design and delivery of innovative and flexible supply chain What do you believe makes your organisation and valuable. The company understands what drives solutions that adds value to its customers’ businesses. stand out from the competition? value for business, and is hence able to create supply poferrymasters.com chain solutions that keep businesses growing. The Unipart Way, our systemic approach to process improvement and engagement, identifies solutions menziesdistribution.com that create and sustain value, and our speed, agility and experience delivers benefit. This, combined with our development of innovative digital solutions, is enabling us to respond to customer challenges even more quickly, and deliver our vision of being the supply chain transformation partner of choice. 22 FOCUS AUGUST 2021 FOWLER WELCH EV CARGO GLOBAL MIKE HANCOX, CEO, YODEL FORWARDING CORPORATE Total score: 15.8 26 MEMBER 23 Congratulations on being named in the CILT Top 30. Total score: 22.46 Fowler Welch provides flexible and cost-effective supply What does this mean to your organisation? chain services for ambient and temperature-controlled We’re very proud to be included in this list alongside EV Cargo systematically operates worldwide, using an products. Drawing on more than 30 years’ experience and some of the biggest players in the sector. This year intermodal freight transport network that spans across knowledge, the company serves major names in retail has been one of transformation for Yodel, as we’ve the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Middle East, New and manufacturing on both sides of the supply chain. handled an increase of 30% in parcels under Zealand, the USA and continental Europe. Decades of It employs the most sophisticated vehicle fleets, challenging circumstances, and the whole team expertise has led to a global forwarding service that warehousing and IT systems to add value to customers’ provides exceptional logistics management and has stepped up to make it Yodel’s most successful operations. The company has facilities in Washington high-tech warehousing, transport and equipment. Tyne and Wear, Teynham and Paddock Wood in Kent, year to date. evcargo.com Portsmouth, Heywood Greater Manchester, Spalding, What are the standout achievements your Newton Abbot and Nuneaton. organisation has experienced over the last year? fowlerwelch.co.uk A highlight has been the resilience and innovation seen throughout the business as we helped keep the country moving: from delivering a million meals for key workers as part of our work for Salute the NHS, through to expanding our service to seven days a week to help the government with Covid-19 test collections. Alongside this, we have also significantly improved service levels and expanded our client base and renewed contracts with our existing ones. We have also reduced carbon emissions by 25% over the last five years. We have PORT OF FELIXSTOWE recruited over 3,000 new colleagues, and we also W H BOWKER ramped up a number of initiatives, such as our Total score: 18.7 25 Total score: 23.62 22 apprenticeship schemes and our work with the Armed Forces Covenant. The Port of Felixstowe is Britain’s biggest and busiest The company was established in 1919 when William Henry container port, and one of the largest in Europe. It handles What changes/challenges is your organisation Bowker used his war gratuity to buy the first vehicle. more than 4 million TEUs and welcomes approximately preparing for in the next 12 months? Today, Bowker provides the complete range of UK and 3,000 ships each year, including the largest container European transport and warehousing services from its vessels afloat; the port provides some of the deepest As consumers’ appetite for home delivery keeps seven strategically located distribution centres. The water close to the open sea of any European port. growing, so we have made a number of big company primarily operates within regulated markets Around 17 shipping lines operate from Felixstowe, strategic decisions to benefit the business, our such as the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries. offering 33 services to and from over 700 ports. With clients and our people. In 2020, we announced Effective working in partnerships with its employees, its unrivalled rail and road links connecting the port to plans to move to a new northern superhub to customers and suppliers have been Bowker’s distribution hubs in the Midlands and elsewhere, handle rising volumes and we’ve also made a fundamental building blocks and these principles have Felixstowe plays a pivotal role in keeping the UK’s significant investment in fleet, with brand-new remained unaltered since 1919. trade moving. trailers and units, which will help us to continue bowkertransport.co.uk portoffelixstowe.co.uk to increase our capacity and deliver on our promises to customers. 01772 628800 [email protected] LOGISTICS GROUP/YODEL NEIL BOWKER, COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR, W H BOWKER Total score: 19.37 24 Congratulations on being named in the CILT Top 30. pharmaceutical sectors. Our international teams and Yodel delivers millions of parcels every week to every What does this mean to your organisation? supporting systems have been adjusted to respond to significant changes to processes and ways of working postcode across the UK. It has over 50 sites nationwide It is a wonderful accolade to be recognised in the CILT’s and also works with Fastway Couriers, Guernsey Post and due to Brexit. The effective adaptation has meant Top 30 for a consecutive year. We are immensely proud Jersey Post. It works with a variety of sectors, including disruption to international customers have been kept to to be recognised by the Institute, a testament to our fashion, leisure, health and beauty, home and garden, a minimum and we have been able provide a robust electrical, gifts, publishing and entertainment, and offers commitment to innovative supply chain solutions international transport solution.