We are the UK’s leading air freight forwarding company, offering professional, flexible, time-efficient solutions. With regional expertise and extensive knowledge.
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Davies Turner air cargo offers delivery from any origin to any destination worldwide.
Davies Turner has multiple air freight delivery options, 24/7 for leading courier and e-commerce products.
With hubs all over the UK, each and every warehouse optimises its space for year-round storage with extra requirements during peak times for all warehouse storage solutions.
With over 140 years of service, we have been able to develop a strong base to house our network
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We are constantly updating our systems to best deal with your requirements.
Our global sea freight and logistics solutions run seamlessly, ensuring only the highest of standards.
Whether you’re looking for a single carton move or a much larger contract, our experienced team can ensure a quality ocean export solution.
Whether it's for a large or small project, our experienced ocean team will manage your import freight effectively and...
We offer a range of LCL solutions to meet all your supply chain needs.
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Davies Turner launched the Express China Rail service in January 2016, providing a fast, competitive third freight option for clients.
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Date Added: 25 July 2022
Call for immediate start to review of competition rules in liner shipping We recently uploaded a news item which reported on the Loadstar website blaming competition authorities around the world for facilitating the disruption in global supply chains by creating “a supportive legal framework for alliances and consortia” to manage global rates. Now, Davies Turner notes that ten trade organisations, representing the owners and forwarders of cargo, port terminal operators and other parts of the supply chain dependent on container shipping, have issued a joint press statement, following a joint letter to EU Vice-President Vestager demanding an immediate start to the review of European Union’s Consortia Block Exemption Regulation for the container shipping industry. Anyone who contracts with us to move their ocean freight consignments, will be well aware of the difficulties and issues that have been faced over the last two years, with space hard to secure and rates at all time highs. With a comprehensive portfolio of ocean freight forwarding services around the globe, Davies Turner has done its utmost to address the issues in order to serve our clients, whilst trying to work out what has caused them and whether some shipping lines are acting unreasonably, so we welcome this call for an immediate start to review of competition rules in liner shipping. The Regulation exempts container shipping lines from many of the checks and balances of EU competition law and permits them to exchange commercially-sensitive information to manage the number and size of ships deployed and the frequency and timing of sailings on trade routes around the world. European businesses and other parties in the supply chain have suffered huge disruption to the movement of goods by container shipping since the Regulation was last renewed in April 2020, with many sailings being cancelled or diverted to other ports, and ports being bypassed (‘skipped’) at short notice. At the same time shipping rates have more than quadrupled on many routes and continue to remain 3 to 4 times higher than in 2019 before the pandemic. The effects of lockdowns on the production of goods and the shifts in demand due to the effects of the Covid pandemic were certainly significant. But the ability of the shipping industry to collectively manage these impacts, and at the same generate profits totalling over USD186 billion in 2021, at the expense of the rest of the supply chain, and ultimately Europe’s consumers, demonstrate that something is wrong. The benefits of the exemptions from general competition law enjoyed by the shipping lines are not being shared fairly between the lines and the rest of the economy, and this in itself constitutes a compelling reason why the Block Exemption should be reviewed urgently. In their letter to the Commission the signatories point to the revelations and recommendations of investigations conducted in the United States by the Federal Maritime Commission, resulting in May in the passing of a new Ocean Shipping Reform Act, addressing many of the grievances of users and services suppliers to the container shipping lines. The Regulation’s review will allow all interested parties to submit evidence and arguments as to how the Commission should act to ensure the deep-sea container shipping market operates in a way that is fair and transparent to all parties in the maritime supply chain. This should include consideration of new measures and mechanisms and should allow sufficient time for these to be considered and implemented before the expiry of the current regulation in April 2024. For more information about Davies Turner’s ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, please contact ocean@daviesturner.co.uk or visit the relevant pages of this website.
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