The company has always been an early adopter of new technology and invested in new company Orwell Data Services, where the FACTS software was developed and used throughout the industry for many years. Many things had changed in the industry over the past few decades,...
New communications technologies meant that shipping lines had started to do their own agency work, putting many agents out of business. John Good’s reputation for trust, integrity and reliability meant that they retained much of the work left and became the biggest...
Another successful venture the company invested in was Welton North Sea Trailers which still exists today under new ownership. In 1972 Humberside storage was created but only lasted 7 years as the grip of the dock workers union made the business unprofitable, the...
The company already had a small haulage department but invested early in palletisation by starting up joint venture Trans-European Port Services (TEPS) – one of the first companies to focus on a pallet exchange system. Today TEPS is wholly owned by the John Good Group...
In the 50s, Victorian-style warehouses had come to an end with the invention of the pallet, and roll-on roll-off (Ro-Ro) services. In the 60s, containerisation followed – with new container ports opening in Felixstowe in 1967 and Hull in 1973. A ship went from...
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