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AV Dawson sets up Transport arm

[ October 3, 2022   //   ]

AV Dawson, owner and operator of the Port of Middlesbrough, has created a new AV Dawson Transport company, which will incorporate all its road haulage services as part of a wider company restructure. AV Dawson Transport is the third company to join the group structure and will begin trading from the beginning of October.

AV Dawson has already launched two subsidiary businesses –  AVD Industrial & Port Services, the business responsible for logistics and port services on its customers’ sites and the company’s ships agency subsidiary, Cockfield, Knight & Company.

AV Dawson – which owns the Port of Middlesbrough estate – has become the parent company of the group.

Charlie Nettle, commercial and marketing director at AV Dawson said: “The launch of AV Dawson Transport illustrates our growth and development as a business.

“Not only will this help us maintain strong relationships with our customers, but it will also give each subsidiary business more autonomy to invest and develop to better support them.

“We envisage this will also provide more development opportunities for our colleagues and keep talent within the business.”

The new subsidiary will be led by existing transport department managers Paul Scott and Alex Hugill, who have been promoted to AV Dawson Transport’s head of operations and head of commercial respectively.

The restructure comes on the back of a recent multi-million-pound investment to increase its vehicle fleet by 25% as part of a group wide diversification and expansion strategy.

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