Today, Steve was luckily enough to attend DP World Southampton’s insight day which consisted of a presentation on the port operations, both currently & in the future – including sustainability which seems very big on DP World’s agenda, which is good to see. But for Steve, today was all about vessels, cranes, containers & straddle
Steve our Director attended Multimodal at the NEC in Birmingham the, leading UK Expo for the shipping, logistics & freight forwarding sector. Recruiting at all levels for many of the exhibitors, from leading shipping lines, large & small freight forwarders and hauliers, Steve certainly enjoyed catching up with everyone, like the lovely Daphne from Portico
Great to catch up with some really valued long term clients at Seawork yesterday. Steve our Director, caught up with long-term valued clients Ross Negus of Southampton Freight Services, Jo Dixie of PSP Worldwide Logistics & Jonathan Williams of Williams Shipping just to name a few. Steve commented ‘Recruitment is a people business, always has
Behind almost every purchase you make, from Christmas lights to a new car, there is a ship. Almost everything we buy, use, wear, and much of what we eat, spends at least some of its life in a container at sea. These giant craft are the lifeblood of the global economy, circumnavigating the globe to
In my 19 years of recruiting or the shipping & logistics industry, I have never experienced such a shortage of industry professionals looking to make a career move than we are facing now. With competition for good candidates at an all time high, candidates are attending 3 or 4 interviews and, in most cases, getting
Southampton container terminal is set to benefit from £40m worth of investment to take the site “to the next level”. DP World announced on Tuesday that Southampton, Britain’s second largest container terminal, will benefit from a major programme of investment in 2021. The investment worth £40m is aimed at providing customers of DP World Southampton with
Hampshire has been given the go-ahead for the “freeport” that its supporters say could generate 25,000 local jobs. Southampton-born chancellor Rishi Sunak announced at the end of his Budget speech that Solent was one of eight areas to have its freeport bid approved. Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), which submitted the application, has said more
I am not one to look on the negative side of life, albeit personal or business, and after recruiting for the logistics sector since 2002, I’ve seen good times, bad times and mediocre times – all part & parcel of business & life in general. There are a lot of gloomy predictions with regards to
On average, UK workers tend to move jobs every 3 to 4 years, with younger workers loyalty to the employers becoming even less, as they look to move on after around 2 years. But with the Coronavirus pandemic & all the uncertainty, we have seen many people within the logistics industry who are currently employed
With Brexit, high freight rates and all the recent port chaos recently, this has been doing the rounds on Facebook. Certainly worth a read. Is this how you feel? 😉 We are capable of calculating quotations for three major projects, making booking for 5 different shipments and answering 12 totally unnecessary calls per hour, all
