History
The LV Group started in Holland around the turn of the last century, the company being known as Lensveld.
The Dutch Chamber of Commerce shows the Lensveld name first appearing in 1921, trading in road transport, road building and sand. It is a family name and several Lensveld brothers were involved in the business. In the seventies, the sand and construction division was made independent. This left Lensveld with the core road transport operation, which developed into the full logistic package LV has today. The LV Group is still an independent, privately owned company.
After diversifying its Dutch activities, the first expansion outside Holland was the opening of a German facility in 1973. The LV German interests are now based in Bremen.
In 1980 LV Holland also expanded into the UK, opening a ferry trailer office in Sheerness. This was later consolidated into the newly formed LV Shipping Ltd, which was registered in 1983. In 1986 operations commenced in Felixstowe, Middlesbrough and Aberdeen with other offices in Tilbury, Staines (Ldn - Heathrow), Newcastle, Southampton, Liverpool and Immingham opening in the following years.
The dynamic growth of the Group was at first due to major contract awards for project freight forwarding with leading international oil companies, like Marathon Oil, Shell and BP. Growth continues to come from expanding global general freight forwarding. This coupled with acquisitions has given us the foundation to succeed in the modern marketplace.
LV's Group head office is still based at Vlaardingen - Rotterdam, Europe's largest container port. The UK head office is based at Felixstowe, UK's largest container port.
The LV Group has gradually expanded outside Europe with appointed agents and partners in most countries (Far East, Middle East, USA, India, Central Asia, North end west Africa etc). All of this gives us the platform to focus on our key goal - meeting the customer needs.