Salvesen's dry drive
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• Christian Salvesen is continuing its expansion drive away from refrigerated distribution with an attack on the dry freight market.
The firm's Wednesbury, West Midlands warehouse and Buxton, Derbys depot have already been modified to handle dry freight. Other UK sites have been earmarked as potential dry freight sites once the new project is operational.
No extra vehicles or personnel have yet been allocated for the operation; Christian Salvesen says: "Vehicles and staff will be taken on as business develops, although the Wednesbury site is already looking to recruit staff."
Subsidiary Alte Xpress, which transports products from Britain to the rest cot-Europe, also plans to win more dryfreight business.
Christian Salvesen says: 'We recognise the need to offer a total distribution service. We have done dry freight work for some of our dedicated distribution contracts such as Marks and Spencer, but this is our first non-dedicated dryfreight operation.
"Although dry freight is not new, many people just associ ate us with food distribution."
In the past few months Christian Salvesen has moved into new distribution areas such as wines and spirits, DIY, canned foods and vehicle spare parts. Also, in March' it launched a contract-hire operation called Service Plus (CM 2-8 March).