Tibbett Logistics a new name for a leading logistics player in Romania

A new company - Tibbett Logistics - is officially launched in Romania this

month by Keswick Enterprises Ltd - a UK-based privately owned holding

company focused on supply chain related businesses. The development follows

Keswick's acquisition last December of Delamode Logistics SRL and that

company's joint venture with DHL, DHL Delamode, from the shareholders of

Delamode Group and DHL. These established Romanian businesses have been

renamed Tibbett Logistics SRL and Tibbett Retail Services SRL respectively -

and together will trade as Tibbett Logistics.


Keswick's management have been involved in Romania for over 14 years and,

since 2005, have been shareholders in Delamode and the DHL/Delamode joint

venture. Prior to this several of Keswick's senior managers, when part of

Tibbett & Britten, led the original Delamode entry into contract

logistics in Romania that established the joint venture on behalf of Metro

Group.


Tibbett Logistics operates from nine distribution centres across Romania -

providing over 100,000 square metres of warehousing in Bucharest, Constanta,

Deva and Timisoara. It offers a nationwide, broad range of supply chain

related services to a variety of customers - including domestic and

multinational retailers, plus FMCG, automotive and other manufacturers.


The company is a pioneer of new supply chain practices and technologies in

Romania - such as RF technology interfaced with customers' ERP systems

(including SAP). It was the first logistics service provider in the country

to implement voice-picking technology in retail warehousing operations.


Distribution operations include a nationwide domestic transport network,

which last year transported over 60,000 vehicle loads in ambient, chill and

refrigerated environments. Tibbett Logistics deploys 400 road trailers -

including double- and triple-temperature reefers.


Since its creation in 2008, Tibbett Logistics' intermodal (road-rail)

service has been leading the way in green logistics and sustainable supply

chain solutions in Romania. The company provides domestic and transnational

intermodal services covering: containers from the Far East landing in the

port of Constanta; containers, semi-trailers and swap-bodies travelling

between Romania and other EU countries; and the movement of domestic freight

between wider Bucharest and western Romania.


Tibbett Logistics is the only private operator of a rail container terminal

in Bucharest, and this summer will open a second, brand new intermodal

terminal in the west of the city. This will form part of a Tibbett

Logistics' CEE intermodal network, with terminals across Romania and, in

partnership, extending into Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia and elsewhere -

delivering substantial cost savings for clients and up to 50% reductions in

CO2 emissions.


Keswick Enterprises was created in 2004 by John Harvey CBE - who previously

developed and led the major intercontinental logistics service provider

Tibbett & Britten Group plc for 20 years. Together with their former

colleagues, the current Board members of Keswick were responsible for

growing Tibbett & Britten Group's revenues from £30 million to £2,300

million just two decades later. Keswick is now bringing this international

know-how and experience to bear on Tibbett Logistics to accelerate its

growth in Romania.


John Harvey, Chairman of Keswick Enterprises Ltd, said: "I am delighted that

we have finally been able to bring Tibbett Logistics and Tibbett Retail

Services fully into the Keswick group of companies. Our innovative and

dynamic young Romanian team are drawing on Keswick's global experience in

the logistics sector. I am confident that together we will accelerate

development and continue to build the business - which has already sustained

continuous growth since 2005."