Yusen bolsters offering for Howdens

Howdens has two dedicated manufacturing locations in England at Runcorn, Cheshire and Howden, East Yorkshire as well as a national distribution campus in Raunds, Northamptonshire.

Yusen Logistics UK supports Howdens in several areas of its transport and logistics challenges in the UK with strategic warehousing and UK distribution services, handling products throughout their supply chain.  

Yusen Logistics specifically provides several ‘’through the night’’ cross docking operations and daily distribution services to regional Howdens depots in the East Midlands, South-East London, South-West London including the Home Counties and will shortly be covering North Yorkshire and the North-East. The services utilise a combination of Yusen Logistics shared user sites and facilities dedicated to Howdens delivering to over 307 Howdens depots.

Howdens director of logistics Steve Liddiard, says: “During the short time we’ve been working together, Yusen Logistics has shown great flexibility to meet our requirements. Their commitment to continued investment in additional facilities and technology has been key to our national roll out of the regional cross-docking centres (XDCs). We’re looking forward to the future collaboration with Yusen Logistics.”