News / Peel Ports takes a 'vertical integration' path with Quality logistics offering

UK port owner Peel Ports has embarked on a “vertical integration path” after buying freight forwarder and transport operator Quality Freight.

It is now rebranded as Peel Ports Logistics, but began life focused on shortsea bulk chartering and ship agency operations, later expanding into haulage and forwarding.

The 2019 acqusition,will allow Peel Ports to offer cargo owners “a wider end-to-end supply chain package”, group commercial director Stephen Carr told The Loadstar.

“Quality Freight’s speciality was across quite a lot of the dry bulk ...