P&O Ferrymasters launches data-driven logistics consultancy

Expands its pan-European solutions business with the launch of a specialist service to help customers to manage complex supply chain challenges.

P&O Ferrymasters is expanding its pan-European logistics solutions business with the launch of a specialist consultancy service to help customers to manage complex supply chain challenges.

The DP World European logistics subsidiary said the new consultancy service would make the company’s in-house expertise available to existing and future customers, “offering fact-based, big data-driven insights and tailor-made advisory solutions”.

It said the independent service “starts with data cleansing, analysis, modelling and mapping to visualise the customer’s current supply chain and create a clear baseline.  The consultants then work on multiple scenarios, fully assessed for timing, availability, costs and environmental footprint, and ultimately can manage the tendering process to hand-pick the best solutions and assist with warehouse engineering”.

P&O Ferrymasters’ general manager of sales and business development for contract logistics, Colin Howard, said: “We will work with our clients to determine their needs and help them achieve their desired goals by finding the most practical and effective solutions driven by robust data, with supply chain mapping and design, transport network design, warehouse engineering, and on health, safety and the environment.

“Managing complexity is the thread which runs through our entire organisation and our sector-leading team is excited at the prospect of introducing a new type of service to help our customers further improve their supply chains and efficiency. However seemingly complex their need may be, our customers can rely on us to ‘just sort it’.”

P&O Ferries is a leading pan-European ferry and logistics company, last year sailing 27,000 times on eight major routes between Britain, France, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Holland and Belgium. Together with its logistics business, P&O Ferrymasters, the company also operates integrated road and rail links to countries across the continent including Italy, Poland, Germany, Spain and Romania, and facilitates the onward movement of goods to Britain from Asian countries via the Silk Road.

P&O Ferries is part of DP World, a leading global provider of ports and logistics solutions.

Source: Lloyd’s