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Dawsongroup opens regional super hub

The Avonmouth site serves the South West in and covers just over six acres with purpose-built offices, a bespoke vehicle workshop and open storage areas for trucks, trailers, sweepers, vans and temperature controlled solutions assets.

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New look for market leading publication

WESTERN BUSINESS Media, the publisher of Handling & Storage solutions magazine, has invested in a redesign of the UK’s leading print publication dedicated to material handling, logistics & the supply chain.

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London Gateway adds two routes

DP World has announced that London Gateway is the UK port of call for two new major international shipping services, connecting the economies of Western Europe with the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and Russia.

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Unpick the profitability problem

The growth of online retail comes with a kick – it’s more expensive to fulfil than the store model. What can retailers do to logistics costs to boost margins? BearingPoint’s Stuart Higgins has some answers.

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Last-mile posing key vaccine challenge

The CEO of DHL says governments are not adequately prepared for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, and says delays are mainly down to a lack of last-mile storage and delivery capacity.

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Rail traverser to keep operations smooth at DIRFT III

Mechan is supplying a multidisciplinary main contractor, Winvic Construction, with a bespoke rail traverser for a new £29 million Intermodal Rail Freight Terminal that is being constructed for Prologis at its DIRFT intermodal logistics park in Northamptonshire.

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Last minute deal prompts border delays

Responding to border delay problems, hauliers were warned by UK Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove early in January that there was likely to be ‘significant disruption’ at borders in January.

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20 doors for grain handling facilities

WORKING THROUGH Gerico France SAS, the designer and manufacturer of bulk solid storage and handling equipment, Hart Door Systems has won two orders for its Speedor Storm door for installation at a major grain storage facility in Mombasa, Kenya.

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Government urged not to repeat national embarrassment

Business group Logistics UK has written to the government to request an urgent review of traffic management and welfare arrangements for HGV drivers in the wake of chaos experienced when France closed its borders to traffic for two days over the Christmas period.

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