H.Z. Logistics move into its new construction in the Netherlands two month ago . " That and construction went smoothly . Most importantly , our client did n’t notice a matter , " begins director Barry Zuiderwijk . This Dutch logistics service supplier now has a 12,000 m2 cross - dock centre with access to 32 docking facility . It also has a modern garage with a 2,000 m2 railroad car laundry to service and maintain its vehicle fleet . Fellow transporters are welcome to practice the railway car wash .
substantiate this new building was a middling foresighted metre coming . " We ’d moved to a new internet site in 2014 but grew so fast that by 2016 that location was quickly becoming too small . The phone number of company was also growing rapidly in that same field . We acquired our current land site ’s domain in 2017 . " Sustainability was key to the new facility ’s structure . For example , the new site was progress to BREEAM Excellence measure . " The cross - dock center sports 1,600 solar panels with another 700 on the garage next to it , " Barry says .
H.Z. Logistics ’s fleet consists of 450 of its own trucks and 150 charter motortruck with 700 refrigerated poke . " There ’s one chief reason for our expansion . "
" That ’s our survive fruit and vegetable and ornamental plant life cultivation sector client groundwork ’s organic ontogenesis . In over 35 year , we ’ve become a logistics specialist , " explains Barry .
" We exercise throughout Europe , focusing on the U.K. and Central and Southern Europe . From international and intermodal yield and veggie and cosmetic Horticulture ( groupage ) transport to merchant vessels supplies and reposition , we unburden our customers of all their possible logistics vexation every solar day . "
Attracting staff stay challenging , but it is not as operose as a few yr ago , says this transport fellowship manager . " We spend plenty of prison term and attention on train untried Dutch drivers . But that market has perceptibly cooled down in our overseas branches in Poland , Romania , and England , too , " he read .
" There ’s more force supply than in recent years . " Brexit did not cause transport volumes to drop . The United Kingdom has become a differentiation food market , leading to parties dropping out . We ’re not transporting less volume there , though , " Barry total .
H.Z. Logistics has been doing intermodal shipping for many years , include runway conveyance to Italy . Three years ago , the transport society invested in some 30 Volvo FH LNG motortruck . " That fiscal picture deepen dramatically with last year ’s aggressively increase gasolene prices . That made us more cautious . "
" But those price have now stabilise , " Zuiderwijk says . He keeps a near eye on developments regarding atomic number 1 - powered freight transport . " That ’s by all odds the futurity . The base just is n’t ready for this yet . That intromission will , thus , take some meter . "
According to Barry , his caller ’s size and the tractableness it offers customers are what distinguishes it . " But , no matter how great we are , unmediated node contact and in force service are our top antecedence . In the end , that often comes down to sustain the agreement made and delivering the barter on time , " he concludes .
For more entropy : Barry ZuiderwijkHZ Logistics1093 Honderdland , 2676 LVMaasdijk , the NetherlandsTel . : +31 ( 0 ) 174 525 596Email:[email protected]www.hzlogistics.euwww.truckwashwestland.nl
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