The revival of the UK housing market has encouraged GB Liners to increase its staff to meet what appears to be a 40% increase in activity levels.

The Managing Director, Robert Bartup, said that as a result of this improvement his company has recruited 45 additional staff since this time last year and is continuing to add staff to cope with the seasonal peak.  He said that the major problem is to upskill the people quickly.  “For many years, GB Liners has had its own training centre where staff are taught packing and handling skills with customer relations,” said Robert.  “The centre has been very busy this year training new recruits and upskilling existing staff.” 

Photo: Staff training at GB Liners.