Vehicle Transporter Fleet

Our Own Fleet of Transporters

International Auto Logistics

For individuals and cars manufacturers alike, the need to move cars about efficiently is a necessity these days.

• Transporters loading daily in Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland & the United Kingdom.
• Operating between: the UK, mainland Europe, Turkey & the TRNC.
• Offices located in London, Rotterdam, Munich, Trieste, Famagusta & Kyrenia.
• Ship your vehicle to Srilanka for £699 or Pakistan for £799 all in with no hidden extras.
• Vehicle collections from any city including auction houses.
• Special services for car dealers and 100% commitment to your, RFI/RFQ & tender process.
• All vehicles fitted with real time satellite tracking
• ISO9001:2008 certified & BAR overseas accredited.

Regular departures on our fleet of weekly car transporters direct to Turkey & North Cyprus, special rates for single or multiple vehicles, please call + 44 (0) 208 804 0404

We can also transport prestige cars with discretion

We can also offer discrete services for the more valuable vehicles too as can be seen here

Multi Lingual Moving Services

It is not often that a business relocation and staff relocation firm can speak in so many tongues, but Dolphin Movers is an exception.

In their main office you can hear:

Turkish, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Urdu, Polish, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Italian, Serbian, French, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, some Hebrew and of course English.

It's why we can deal with most enquiries on a truly global basis. In addition we offer trade services in most of these countries because we have language, local knowledge and cultural fluency. But it's the details that count. Just imagine the problem that can arise if there are language issues effecting the communications - where would your items end up?

And there are the cultural aspects too, it's not just that we have individuals who can speak a language, its that they have a personal knowledge of those nations.

The cultural details can also make the difference between the smooth running of a relocation or the misfortune of one of our clients - which would be the one who would suffer.

So for your business moving services, employee moving services and business storage matters call Dolphin Movers Ltd without delay. With the added confidence that we can talk for you on your relocation.



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Dolphin Movers Relocation Services



Expert Staff



Restructuring, Rationalising and Reorganisation whether for growth or even contraction can often mean movements of staff, offices, physical assets and documentation. There can often be an ‘International dimension’ to this type of change in today’s global economy.

 Maintain the strategic direction of your changes and concentrate on the on-going success of your businesses, AND leave the ‘business moving services’ or employee movement services to Dolphin Movers.

With over 20 years of international business relocations under our ‘belts’ we feel we have the expertise to co-ordinate the complexities of ‘asset mobilisation’.

Office moves from 20-5000 staff including office assets and the individual relocation of those staff affected with professionalism, attention to detail and sensitivity.

Local, National & International moving services
• Staff relocations nationally and internationally

• Office relocation Project management & on-site supervision

• HMRC approved depository for complex inward import/storage/duty issues

• Experienced single-point-of-contact

• Weekends, overnight & continuous shifts

• Colour coding & crate hire

• Porterage, document shredding & waste disposal
• Short/long term storage & records management
• Fully comprehensive transit insurance
• 100% commitment to your RFI/RFQ & tender process
• International Auto Logistics
• Global Air Freight
• ISO 9001:2008 certified & BAR accredited


Onsite Survey
From the outset we do our best to make sure your particular requirements are met and that no specific issue is left unanswered. Our solution for this is to provide a free survey for planning your move. Our experienced professional surveyors will view the items to be moved and go through what you wish to take or store, as well as ensuring the small details are kept in check.

Quotation
Whether it be from one of our professional surveyors, an online request or telephone query, one of the dedicated sales consultants will address any points raised, provide a professional and competitive quote for you to peruse over at your leisure. If, however, any particular quote does not quite meet what you were hoping for, the team will do everything within their power to help you attain the quote you want.

Packing and Loading

Whether for staff or office items, one of the most critical aspects of any move is the quality of packing, technique of handling and even the quality of the packing material itself. We choose our packing crew and the quality of our packing materials with infinite care. As specialists in moving, all our packing crews are trained and experienced and up to date in all the latest packing techniques. Our packers, drivers and porters work for Dolphin Movers on a full time basis.

Where export packing is required, we begin preparing prior to the moving day using only the best available materials. Our materials are purpose made specifically to protect the items whilst in transit. We use waterproofed padded blanket furniture wrap, acid free tissue paper, bubble wrap, a vast array of reinforced cartons, jiffy foam and extra strong sealing tape. We have specific smaller cartons for heavier objects and larger cartons for lighter objects. Fragile items such fine art, antiques, grandfather clocks, glass display cabinets, paintings etc, will be packed using the appropriate materials and cased or crated for added protection. We design and build made to measure timber crates and cases tailored to your needs.
Sturdy plastic Tea Crates are also used for any files, papers, computers and other desk contents to be moved in an organised manner.

Delivery & Unloading
On arrival of your consignment to destination, our agents will make contact with you to arrange and perform that very important final stage of your move. They will arrange a convenient time with you in advance and on delivery they will unload, unpack and position all the items into relevant rooms and remove all used packing materials and debris.

Short or Long Term Business Storage
Dolphin Movers is pleased to offer safe, secure storage facilities for your office equipment, records and files for a short or long-term.

• Fully secured facilities.

• HMRC approved for imported customs items and duty issues

• Full Insurance cover available at 0.5% of value.

• Collection and packing service.

• Competitive Rates.
• Secure facility
• Delivery service.

Transit Insurance
Dolphin Movers is able to offer all risks transit insurance, underwritten by Fortis, specifically designed to insure household goods, personal effects, antiques, fine arts and motor vehicles.

De-clutter Service

Dolphin Movers is pleased to be able to provide a safe and friendly De-clutter service at request. This includes the removal of any packing materials that are no longer needed on the delivery of your move.

New Service: Shuttle Car Transporter Italy to UK Weekly



One of our 5 transpoters

 Dolphin Movers are setting up their car transporter fleet to offer vehicle collection from Trieste in Italy and some points on the return journey to bring into the UK. As we have 5 transporter each holding up to 8 cars we can handle 40 cars per week.

Therefore Dolphin are looking for larger scale operators to offer this service.

please e-mail any enquiries to the Business Development Manager

2012 Traffic Chaos?

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has added a dedicated area on its website to offer logistics advice in connection with the staging of the Olympic and Paralympic Games at a number of locations throughout the UK this summer.

This area of the website provides information that will help those involved in supply chain activities to mitigate disruption to cargo collection and delivery activities.

BIFA director general Peter Quantrill says, “While the sporting efforts of the athletes taking part in the Olympic and Paralympic Games will rightly take centre stage, equally vital will be the work of those in the freight industry who supply the stadia and wider community during the weeks of the competitions.

2012 "Village"

“We will support our members and the wider freight community in planning ahead to reduce the disruption and problems these events will create with a special area of our website.

“As well as a full list of relevant Olympic links, news and downloads, transport planners can see items which explain such things as out-of-hours deliveries during the Games, online resources to help the freight industry plan for this time, as well as other relevant and useful content.

“I would invite all those involved in the UK supply chain during the period of the Olympics to keep returning to this section of our website to keep abreast of relevant news to help reduce or resolve any logistics problems likely to arise from these events.

“Athletes from around the world tirelessly plan and practice for months and years to take part in the Olympics. Our members must also plan to mitigate disruptions to their clients’ supply chains and specialist logistics during the Olympic and Paralympic events”.

US Employers willing to help with Skilled Staff relocation costs

CHICAGO, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- As 2012 ushers in an improving, but still highly competitive job market, more workers may be looking beyond their own backyard for employment options. Forty-four percent of workers said they would be willing to relocate for a career opportunity, according to a nationwide study by CareerBuilder. Of workers who were laid off in the last year and found new jobs, 20 percent relocated to a new city or state.*

At the same time, employers struggling to find workers for skilled positions said they are willing to pay to bring talent to their locations. Thirty-two percent reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012. Nineteen percent would be willing to pay a smaller first year salary in order to give a signing bonus to relocate an employee. The national survey was conducted from November 9 to December 5, 2011 among more than 3,000 employers and more than 7,000 workers.

To help workers zero in on markets with the greatest demand for their skills and assess costs of moving to and living in a particular area, CareerBuilder launched CareerRelocate.com. Through this new site, workers can:

Run a simple keyword or category search and view a map detailing where the most and fewest opportunities are for their line of work.

• View actual relocation opportunities in different cities.
• Learn what they would need to earn in order to maintain their current standard of living in another city.
• Research homes, property values, mortgage quotes, moving and storage costs.
• Tap into articles and advice on relocating and hiring trends.

"One of the key trends we saw coming out of the recession is the movement of labour in and out of markets across the U.S.," said Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder. "Workers have had to expand their job search geographically and employers in need of hard-to-find, skilled talent have had to recruit across state lines. Our new site CareerRelocate.com helps workers identify relocation opportunities and understand related costs, so they have the right information in hand for their next career move."

While employers will move current staff and new hires for a wide variety of positions, the top areas for which they are most likely to pay to relocate employees are tied to technology and revenue-generation:

• Engineering - 30 percent of employers
• Information Technology - 23 percent
• Business Development - 21 percent
• Sales - 21 percent
• Financial - 16 percent
• Marketing - 13 percent
• Legal - 11 percent

The vast majority of workers who relocated in the last year - 77 percent - reported they were happy with the move and didn't regret the decision. Workers reported benefiting in the following ways:

• Made a fresh start - 30 percent
• Made new friends - 31 percent
• Had new experiences we wouldn't have had anywhere else - 29 percent
• Earning at a higher level gave the family more spending options - 27 percent
• Better long-term career opportunities - 22 percent
• Area is nicer and schools are better - 19 percent

Of those workers who relocated in the last year, 41 percent said their family didn't relocate with them and they have to travel to see them. Top challenges associated with relocating included:

• Cost of living is higher - 26 percent
• More stress on the family unit - 24 percent
• Difficult to make new friends - 18 percent
• Feeling homesick - 16 percent

*CareerBuilder nationwide study of 686 workers who were laid off from full-time jobs completed in September 2011.

Survey Methodology This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive© on behalf of CareerBuilder among 3,023 hiring managers and human resource professionals and 7,780 U.S. workers (employed full-time, not self-employed, non-government) between November 9 and December 5, 2011 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions). With pure probability samples of 3,023 and 7.780, one could say with a 95 percent probability that the overall results have a sampling error of +/- 1.78 and +/-1.11 percentage points, respectively. Sampling error for data from sub-samples is higher and varies.

About CareerBuilderCareerBuilder is the global leader in human capital solutions, helping companies target and attract their most important asset - their people. Its online career site, CareerBuilder.com®, is the largest in the United States with more than 24 million unique visitors, 1 million jobs and 40 million resumes. CareerBuilder works with the world's top employers, providing resources for everything from employment branding and talent intelligence to recruitment support. More than 9,000 websites, including 140 newspapers and broadband portals such as MSN and AOL, feature CareerBuilder's proprietary job search technology on their career sites. Owned by Gannett Co., Inc. /quotes/zigman/227199/quotes/nls/gci GCI -0.07% , Tribune Company and The McClatchy

Company /quotes/zigman/233294/quotes/nls/mni MNI -1.24% , CareerBuilder and its subsidiaries operate in the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia. For more information, visit www.careerbuilder.com .

Media Contact:CareerBuilderJennifer Grasz773-527-1164jennifer.grasz@careerbuilder.com http://www.twitter.com/CareerBuilderPR

SOURCE CareerBuilder

Re-Structuring: Best Practice

The EU are launching a commission into best practice and policies for restructuring. Prompted by the obvious financial crisis within Europe and the Western economies, the EU wish to improve SME competitiveness. At the same time they are also wishing to save jobs which might not be a totally mutually attainable target. However the idea is to show best practice in difficult times. A worthy idea. Taken from Euroalert.

Re Organisation needs Care

The public consultation launched by the European Commission intends to identify successful practices and policies in the field of restructuring and adapting to change. The aim is to include the results into the upcoming employment package and to improve further cooperation between workers and employers' representatives, government, local and regional authorities and the EU institutions.

The European Commission launched until 30 March 2012, a public consultation on corporate restructuring and anticipating change. The aim is to identify successful practices and policies in the field of restructuring and adapting to change.

The consultation will also help to identify specific restructuring measures that could help deal with employment and social challenges, and help European companies improve competitiveness through innovation and a fast, but smooth adaptation to change.

Packing & Moving

This public consultation is launched when it is published by the Commission that the 85% of net new jobs in the EU between 2002 and 2010 have been created by SMEs.

The Green Paper which opens this consultation is supported by the staff working document "Restructuring in Europe 2011". The Green Paper includes several questions addressing issues such as whether the existing policy measures and practices adequate; what are the relevant framework conditions and existing good practices on access to finance; whether it is needed to update existing guidelines on restructuring and the means to ensure their implementation; or how to improve the synergies between companies, local authorities and other local actors.

According to the Commission, this consultation is open because from 2002 to 2010, over 11,000 cases of restructuring were recorded by the European Restructuring Monitor, with a ratio of almost two jobs lost for every one created.

Many companies and their workers have developed innovative arrangements to limit job losses. These initiatives have varied from working hours, to more social dialogue, to adjustment measures or the intervention of public employment services.

However, the Commission highlights that these may be less effective in a context of persistently weak demand.

Office Blow for Hammerson

Office move cancelled for 2015: Long term planning can go awry.

Hammerson's Principal Place

CMS Cameron McKenna has cancelled plans to move into a new City skyscraper still under development due to the ongoing problems in the global economy.


Hammerson, the building's developer, issued a stock exchange announcement earlier (16 January) stating that the firm had pulled out of discussions to take on around one-third of the space in its new Principal Place skyscraper in 2015.


CMS, which agreed an initial pre-let deal with Hammerson last summer, said it was postponing the move due to the market uncertainty, with the firm now planning to explore its options nearer the end of its current lease agreement on Mitre House in Aldersgate Street in the City in 2015.


CMS senior partner Dick Tyler said: "As a result of the current uncertainties in the financial markets, CMS Cameron McKenna has decided not to enter into a significant long-term premises commitment. The firm is therefore ceasing its current conversations with Hammerson in relation to its development at Principal Place, EC2."


"The firm proposes to postpone its decision to move until market conditions are more stable. The firm's lease of Mitre House in Aldersgate Street expires in 2015 and it will explore its relocation options in London nearer the expiry date."


CMS was the first pre-let agreed to date for the Principal Place skyscraper, which Hammerson is aiming to complete in 2015. The building was granted planning permission in July 2011 and is part of a mixed use scheme that will include shops, restaurants and residential apartments.


The firm had been looking to take up to 200,000 sq ft in the 591,000 sq ft office building, which will be located a few minutes away from Liverpool Street station and Spitalfields, north of Bishopsgate.


Hammerson chief executive David Atkins commented: "I have consistently said that in current conditions we would not expose our shareholders to excessive risk through building London offices on a speculative basis, which remains our policy.


"We have made good progress with the design and planning of Principal Place over the last six months, which I am confident will further improve its appeal to potential occupiers, and we continue actively to seek office tenants. We are clearly disappointed by CMS' decision, but understand their position."

Source Legal Week

Bonded Warehousing UK

Who can benefit from taking the bonded warehouse initiative and what can Dolphin Movers solution do to support organisations keen to put cost to the back of the supply chain?

Q: What types of organisations could benefit from using bonded warehouses?

A: Most types of business can benefit from using a bonded warehouse-from varied users such as pharmaceuticals, international staff relocating, drinks industry, retailers, automotive and other 3rd party logistics companies.

Q: What are the tax/customs & excise incentives, deferred payment, etc?

A: Most companies do not sell their goods within four weeks of receiving stock into their warehouse. This means that they will have paid the Duty and VAT up front on all of their stock, which is now classed as "Duty Paid". This is the money that they could have legally avoided paying for a considerably longer period of time.

Through bonded warehousing all of the stock in our warehouse can be classed as "Duty suspended", thus avoiding this advance Duty Payment on goods which may not have been sold yet and will reside in stock for months.

For example:

·         300 cases of spirits at 40% by volume

·         The Excise Duty at £25.52 per litre of alcohol would be £27,560

·         The VAT would be approximately £8600

·         Total duty cost of £36,000

Therefore, 5 monthly orders of this quantity results in over £180,000 of duties per month.

Two month average stock turnaround would save you over £360,000 tied up in stock holding.

Q: How does Dolphin Movers help automate the process?

A: Dolphin Movers simplifies and automates the day to day complexities of handling bonded goods, ensuring efficient compliance with HM Revenue & Customs legislation, with a full suite of automatic daily and monthly reports relevant to a bonded operation. Stock accounts (rotations) are held for all bonded stock and are managed according to the strict regulations of HMRC. Rotation history is fully maintained, reflecting all movement of stock.

Dolphin Movers maintains master files for all significant Customs & Excise detail. Internal validation rules ensure that sensitive data is checked before use. A master file audit log records all changes to this data. Every change is time stamped and identifies the operator. Our audit reporting facility gives users a high level of flexibility in analysing this data and movements can be traced easily from any source.

Dolphin Movers Has Something to Blog About

First of all we have moved to a new and larger base, not far from our original base.

We are now at;
37 Millmarsh Lane
Enfield
London
EN3 7UY
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 20 8804 7700
Fax:     +44 (0) 20 8804 3232

Web site: http://www.dolphinmovers.com/

We are also becoming much greener; we are looking at using waste to make bio-methane which we can then compress to help run our transport fleet