Insight day at DP World Southampton

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

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SDW at Multimodal Expo at the NEC

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

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SDW at Seawork

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

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shipping and freight jobs

Why should candidates choose you?

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

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shipping recruitment southampton

Southampton container terminal set for £40m investment

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

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Hampshire Freeport

Hampshire to get Freeport – creating 25000 Jobs

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

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Life of a Freight Forwarder

The Life of a Freight Forwarder

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

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negotiate a better salary

How to negotiate a better salary

Whether you are looking for a new job opportunity of feel you are doing a great job for your current employer & deserve to be rewarded more – salary negotiation is a key part of not only the recruitment process, but the relationship between employer / employee. Both need to feel they are being rewarded

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Logistics Working from Home

A guide to working from home

We are now well into our third lockdown & hopefully our last – but who knows. Regardless of the pandemic, working from home will become the norm for many, well after the virus disappears. Many people have welcomed switching the office and a suit for joggers and a sofa. But as the novelty starts to

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