The depot is located at Altens Industrial Estate on Blackness Road. It required more than £2 million, of which £1.2m came from the RBS. 

 

The firm provides freight, haulage, distribution and storage services. Its turnover has more than doubled in the past seven years, and it currently has depots in Aberdeen, Shetland, Orkney, Inverness, Scrabster and Glasgow. More expansions are planned. 

 

Northwards managing director Michael Porter said: “The acquisition of a new transportation depot is an important step in our expansion and we’re grateful to Royal Bank of Scotland for supporting our investment. The new facility will enable us to continue to enhance and grow the portfolio of services available to our customers while creating new jobs for the surrounding areas.” 

 

Martin Ramsay, relationship director at RBS, said: “Royal Bank of Scotland is proud to support Northwards on the purchase of its new transportation hub. The company is extremely well known in Aberdeen and has a prominent presence within Scotland’s transportation and logistics industry.

 

"The new hub will enable the company to continue its upwards trajectory, create new jobs and offer additional services to both new and existing customers. We wish the team all the best at their new base.”

 

Source: Insider

 

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All types of manual factory environments rely on one automated clock-in system or another, and distribution centres are no different. 

 

It is vital to have a reliable method of knowing when the workers are coming and going because the supervisors cannot be expected to recognise the often transient workforce over the full expanse of sites which can be very large. 

 

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As well as functioning as a kind of electronic timesheet, our terminals can link to alarms and wall clocks, and give staff absence codes for why they are leaving the building. 

 

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