L C L International

Consolidation traffic, combining smaller consignments to one shipment to spread the cost, for road transport is usually referred to as 'Groupage' and, for Airfreight as 'Air Consols'.

In the early 1990s, when the UK joined the Single Market and EU trade barriers were lowered, Customs Clearance requirements reduced - and some long established companies pulled out of Dover or closed altogether. Eastern European hauliers began to experiment with their own services to and from the UK and LCL International Ltd, with its multi-lingual staff, found itself in demand.

Following the break up of Yugoslavia, and the Bosnian Civil War in 1992, we organised ever increasing amounts of commercial cargo and Humanitarian Aid to those areas and our Serbo-Croat speaking staff established a strong position for the market in both directions.