Suttons Group News

Paul Morrill is a Transport Planner at Suttons Tankers, based in our Hull office. Paul is responsible for the day to day running of customer’s contracts, ensuring that products are always distributed safely and on time. Recently Paul has taken a role in Suttons’ response to Brexit and has personally been liaising with customers and customs agents to reduce disruption to supply chains.

We are no strangers to unpredictable weather conditions in the UK, but the recent torrential rain and flurry of snow we have experienced over the past week has posed challenges to some of our contracts.

Suttons are pleased to announce a substantial investment for our Widnes depot wash bay, bringing sustainable, reliable, and safety focused improvements to our operations and third-party business’, while ensuring our wash bay is future proofed for many years to come.

The implications of Brexit are now in full swing and there is no doubt that this has had an impact on some of our contracts at Suttons. Paul Morrill, one of our Transport Planners, has experience of navigating the impact of Brexit on our Rain Carbon contract, and as a result, offered his expertise to support with the customs activity between the UK & Ireland on the BOC pentanes liquids contract.

Meet the Suttons Tankers Commercial team; Roger, Nigel, Billy, Cameron and Jessica. With a variety of different roles, the team look after new business, relationship management with existing customers, marketing and much, much more.The department experienced a significantly successful year in 2020 with a number of new business wins, as well as contract renewals and customer commendations.

Andy Turner is a Workshop Supervisor based in our Widnes HQ Depot Workshop. He has been with Suttons for over 15 years and is responsible for the safe and efficient running of our Widnes workshop. We are proud of our internal workshops and Widnes offers high quality maintenance for our fleet. These include inspections and servicing as well as MOT and ADR preparations, ensuring confidence in a first-time pass rate. Intermediate and periodic vessel testing is also carried out in our workshop by our experienced team of technicians.

Last month we experienced what was a described by many journalists as a ‘logistics nightmare’ when a growing list of countries closed their borders to Britain due to fears of a new, highly contagious, strain of coronavirus. This caused travel chaos, fears of food shortages and panic surrounding other implications on supply chains.

Josh joined Suttons in 2016, and has moved across various sales roles in Suttons International in the four years since he joined. Prior to his time at Suttons he studied at the University of Leeds and spent 12 months traveling through Asia and Australia, before coming home and buying a property in his home town of Warrington with his partner Claire.

Nuray Holtkamp-Tamur has joined Suttons International as Commercial Director.