News / GEFCO boosts logistics footprint in UK with new Merseyside hub

(l-r) Zsolt Vecsera Philippe Doyer, Lord Mayor Malcolm Kennedy and Pierre-Jean Lorrain

GEFCO has boosted its logistics offering in the UK with a new £10m supply chain hub in Merseyside, but said its main focus would remain on automotive logistics.

The firm, 75% owned by Russian Railways (RZD) and 25% by French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen, attributed 68% of its $4.2bn turnover last year to the automotive sector and said that, although it had ambitious growth plans, these were “unlikely” to result in a radical change in its business split.

The facility, at Speke in close ...