DT Christmas Newsletter 2025

2025: Resilience pays off with a year of growth and achievements Against a backdrop of notable challenges, we can proudly reflect on a year of good progress in 2025, writes Group Operations Director, Edward Stephenson

I n the last Xmas newsletter, I mentioned that in the year ahead we would likely need to show resilience in navigating our way through 2025. Therefore, against a backdrop of notable challenges such as continuing economic struggles at home and abroad, the impact of US tariff policy and geopolitical tensions, we can proudly reflect on a year of progress and satisfaction in what we have achieved. Starting off our impressive list of achievements is the 2025 Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) rankings where Davies Turner rose to 20th place, up from 23rd in 2024 and 29th in 2023. This steady climb reflects our growing influence and performance in a competitive field dominated by multinational giants. We should be especially proud to be the only UK-based, privately owned and independently run freight forwarding and

Manitoulin Global Forwarding hit the ground running and is reaping benefits already with increased volumes.

A more recent development in our road freight team has been the change in partner in Portugal. The new partnership with Torrestir provided a long list of sales leads to pursue, and we’ve also seen more collection orders coming through in the last few weeks than we ever did previously, which bodes well for the future. The sky’s not the limit Following the launch of Space Logistics Network (SLN) last year, the membership goes from strength to strength with a growing specialist global coverage. A highlight of the year was seeing a shipment that SLN had arranged to be transported from the UK to the Space X launchpad in the USA where it was then flown into space on a Space X rocket. This shows that the sky’s no longer the limit . Davies Turner Logistics (DTL) has also been breaking new ground by forming a partnership with another family owned and independently-run Logistics company called Jan De Rijk in the Netherlands. This strategic partnership means that DTL now has a solution for our UK based clients to store and distribute goods in the EU, which has started really positively with plenty of interest. achievement from last year’s standing start. 2025 has been quite a year and I would like to thank you all for your hard work and commitment in helping the company achieve these fantastic successes. This leaves me to wish you and your families a joyful Christmas and a very happy new year. Our most recent logistics site in Atherstone has also proved to be a big hit with new clients filling up the building so that it is full, which is a remarkable

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logistics company to make it into the top 20. The ranking is based on a rigorous assessment of financials, performance, accreditations, HR practices, and more, which is a true reflection of our all-round strength. Commitment to health and safety Our unwavering commitment to Health and Safety across all operations was recognised with a 5th consecutive RoSPA Gold Award, earning the prestigious RoSPA

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Gold Seal. This recognition is a great testament to all the hard work and focus from everyone involved in such a critical part of our business. A further accomplishment achieved during the year was obtaining the Bronze medal for our EcoVadis submission which is only awarded to the top 35 percent of rated companies in sustainability across all industries globally. The nature of the freight forwarding and logistics industry means assessment is also one of the most challenging and our medal demonstrates the gains we’ve made in implementing sustainable practices across the company. A year of M&A activity causes upheaval 2025 saw a number of very large mergers and acquisitions in the industry with DSV acquiring DB Schenker being the largest of them all. However, Davies Turner hasn’t been immune to the knock-on effect of these M&A activities. An example being when our longstanding partner in Türkiye, Ekol Logistics was acquired by DFDS, which resulted in the start of a new partnership with Talay Logistics and also extending our relationship with Gebrüder Weiss into a new territory for the point of origin warehousing. Further opportunities to form exciting new partnerships presented themselves during the year. There has been a change of partner in Canada where the new relationship with we have achieved

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