Peel Ports: Local logistics could sort supply chain woes

Peel Ports has called for the supply chain to rethink its approach and take advantage of the full range of private, public and trust ports across the UK in order to address bottleneck problems.

The UK’s second largest port operator stated that the country’s network of 120 commercial ports is under-utilised and that commerce as a whole will gain from spreading the load.

David Huck, managing director of Group Ports at Peel Ports, said: “It might raise eyebrows that we’re encouraging companies to use competitors as well as ourselves, but these are exceptional times.