The UK freight & logistics company will tweak its combined rail-truck-sea weekly service from Hefei to enable direct on-carriage to other than its hub in Dartford destinations throughout England.

The service has been going by rail from Hefei to Neuss in Germany and then by truck under bond to the Port of Rotterdam for boarding a ferry heading to Purfleet for on-carriage to Davies Turner’s hub in Dartford.

"Since the direct service recommenced in March, we have seen three to four 40ft High Cube containers arriving every week direct into our Dartford freight hub,” Tony Cole, Head of Supply Chain Services, Davies Turner, said.

He further explained, "However, following the review, we have identified many of the shipments are for distribution to other parts of the UK, so we are now working with our partners in China to refine the consolidation process at Hefei, and to ensure that shipments destined for the South West, Midlands or North West are consolidated in the same container.”

"Having reviewed the pattern of shipments we are carrying, we have decided to offer a direct service to our regional freight hubs in Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester, in addition to the existing direct service to Dartford,” he concluded.

Upon arrival, the shipments’ contents will be discharged, customs cleared, and delivered.

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