Busy JCB appoints parts logistics provider

14 October 2022

To meet ongoing strong demand for machinery, JCB has appointed Maersk Logistics as its global lead logistics provider. 

The five-year contract to manage the company’s global supply chain operations will commence in early 2023 and will see Maersk collaborate with Unipart Logistics in its delivery.

Under the agreement, both Maersk and Unipart will play a key role in keeping JCB’s ten UK production facilities in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham supplied with parts from the JCB World Logistics Centre in Newcastle-under-Lyme. 

Employment at the centre has more than quadrupled since opening in 2013 and the new contract secures the jobs of the 260 people working there, as well as those of an additional 160 people working across JCB’s Staffordshire plants.

JCB chief operating officer Mark Turner said: “JCB’s business is going through a period of unprecedented growth around the world and as we grow, keeping production lines supplied with parts and components on a just-in-time basis is imperative. 

“The appointment of Maersk Logistics as JCB’s global lead logistics provider, along with Unipart Logistics, will bring about a transformation in our global supply chain operations and support our manufacturing growth plans.”