P&O Ferrymasters Opens Its First UK Warehouse

Logistics company P&O Ferrymasters announced it has further expanded its supply chain network by opening an 800-square-metre warehouse at Liverpool Port to support its customers with cross-docking operations and feed its connection with P&O Ferries’ Liverpool-Dublin sailings. This is the company’s first warehouse facility in the United Kingdom.

The warehouse – which is open 24 hours a day and comprises eight loading bays supporting trailer and container operations – gives the logistics company an increased capacity to handle the projected uplift in daily full and part-load shipments across the Irish Sea. It also supports daily groupage and cross-docking operations, where loads from more than one customer are consolidated.

“Following feedback from our customer base, we are introducing a cross-docking facility at Liverpool Port which will enable all customers to benefit from our portside location, streamline their logistical requirements and ultimately reduce their costs. Industry-leading IT systems such as load and cost optimization and track & trace visibility will further enhance the customer experience,” comments Andy Apsley, P&O Ferrymasters’ General Manager Ireland. “We manage more than 800 trailer movements a week into and out of the UK and our unique value proposition is being able to offer our customers – who come from all sectors including retail, fast-moving consumer goods, automotive and horticulture – a seamless, reliable and punctual service between Ireland, Britain and continental Europe.”

P&O Ferrymasters is a leading pan-European provider of logistics solutions. The company serves 20 strategic locations in 12 countries across the continent, operating integrated road, rail and sea links via a fleet of 4,000 trailers and containers. P&O Ferrymasters also owns a rail terminal in the city of Oradea, Romania, which facilitates the onward movement of goods to Britain from Asian countries via the Silk Road. The company is a division of P&O Ferries, which sails on eight major routes between Britain, France, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium. It operates more than 20 vessels which carry 8.4 million passengers and 2.3 million freight units annually.