The Bristol facility is the logistics provider’s largest to date at 150,000 square feet.
U.K. independent freight services and logistics provider Davies Turner’s new multiuser distribution center in Bristol now is fully operational.
The new facility just outside Avonmouth is Davies Turner’s largest to date at 150,000 square feet. The building has a high bay fully racked area, with a top beam lift of 17.5 meters and eaves height of 19 meters, making it one of the highest in Europe for VNA forklift operations.
Four mezzanine floors have been built, with an average area of 35,000 square feet, each with conveyor and pallet lift access from the ground floor as well as between each of the decks. These multistory mezzanines are suitable for sortation, rework and fulfillment services required for Davies Turner’s growing e-commerce activities and online retail logistics business.
Access to the warehouse is through 18 loading docks as well as a separate drive-in ramp at one end and an extra wide door at the other for out-of-gauge freight.
The site in Central Park, a 600-acre warehousing and logistics development, is strategically located on the edge of Avonmouth, within a 10-minute drive of Davies Turner’s facility at Western Freight Terminal. The DC will benefit from direct motorway access thanks to the junction currently under construction on the M49.
Bristol is one of Davies Turner’s key multimodal freight hubs, with satellite branches in Bridgend, Plymouth and Southampton.
“This cluster-based approach based on our freehold sites will allow us to pool our local management and labor resources. It represents a much-needed expansion of capacity serving our customers nationwide as well as in South Wales and the west country,” said Philip Stephenson, chairman of Davies Turner.
The company has purchased 12 acres at Central Park and said it could build another 121,000-square-foot warehouse there. That facility could be designed for a specific customer, Davies Turner said.
The new facility just outside Avonmouth is Davies Turner’s largest to date at 150,000 square feet. The building has a high bay fully racked area, with a top beam lift of 17.5 meters and eaves height of 19 meters, making it one of the highest in Europe for VNA forklift operations.
Four mezzanine floors have been built, with an average area of 35,000 square feet, each with conveyor and pallet lift access from the ground floor as well as between each of the decks. These multistory mezzanines are suitable for sortation, rework and fulfillment services required for Davies Turner’s growing e-commerce activities and online retail logistics business.
Access to the warehouse is through 18 loading docks as well as a separate drive-in ramp at one end and an extra wide door at the other for out-of-gauge freight.
The site in Central Park, a 600-acre warehousing and logistics development, is strategically located on the edge of Avonmouth, within a 10-minute drive of Davies Turner’s facility at Western Freight Terminal. The DC will benefit from direct motorway access thanks to the junction currently under construction on the M49.
Bristol is one of Davies Turner’s key multimodal freight hubs, with satellite branches in Bridgend, Plymouth and Southampton.
“This cluster-based approach based on our freehold sites will allow us to pool our local management and labor resources. It represents a much-needed expansion of capacity serving our customers nationwide as well as in South Wales and the west country,” said Philip Stephenson, chairman of Davies Turner.
The company has purchased 12 acres at Central Park and said it could build another 121,000-square-foot warehouse there. That facility could be designed for a specific customer, Davies Turner said.
