Maxi in Ireland
Maxi Haulage’s biggest success story in the last 4 years has been our serious entry into the Irish market. We have moved from being a small player to a substantive operation moving between 700 to 800 trailers a week. We identified a major opportunity as, historically, the trucking market to Ireland was not that sophisticated. The opportunity was to apply contract management disciplines to what, historically, was a general haulage market.
Our period of development has also coincided with the major growth spurt to Ireland where the market has been growing at around 40000 loads per year, with relatively static shipping capacity, and therefore one of the principal activities in our development has been managing shipping space.
The challenge over the next 2 years is probably a different one, i.e. we are moving from a shortage of space to having too much space and therefore there will be potential casualties, as has been the case in each of the past attempts to grow capacity.
