{"id":3454,"date":"2017-12-14T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2017\/12\/14\/volvo-penta-dealer-award\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:36:00","slug":"volvo-penta-dealer-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2017\/12\/14\/volvo-penta-dealer-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo Penta dealer award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent Volvo Penta UK annual Dealer conference in Lisbon, Portugal, which brought together the UK Dealers and Centres, it focussed on two key messages \u2013 \u2018\u2019Unmatched Service and Uptime\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2019Meeting Customer Needs\u2019\u2019. Volspec Ltd was awarded Outstanding Performance 2017, which was presented to recognise that Volspec Ltd have been consistently performing at the desired level for the majority of the areas covered during the conference.<\/p>\n<p>With just 20 staff and two bases \u2013 in Tollesbury on the River Blackwater in Essex and Woolverstone on the River Orwell \u2013 this Volvo Penta Centre has a history of innovation and flexibility stretching back to its launch in 1973. Volspec Ltd competed against 46 UK based dealers and centres for this award. Volspec Ltd is the only Volvo Penta Centre in the UK to have won this award twice.<\/p>\n<p>By Jake Frith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart work and excellent customer service have resulted in an unprecedented second \u2018Outstanding Performance Award\u2019 for Volspec Ltd the Tollesbury, UK-based Volvo Penta Marine and Industrial Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-power-propulsion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}