newsFreight Transport Association (FTA) has welcomed the Department for Transport’s (DfT) pledge of an additional £500 million to fund the provision of ultra-low emissions vehicles and supporting infrastructure up to 2020 but the freight sector must benefit from this funding.
newsMedical supplies distributor Henry Schein has warned that an overly broad response to the breast implants scandal could cause unnecessary cost to the supply chain.
newsThe Freight Transport Association is asking for greater consistency ‘across-the-board’ in the time allowed for delivery drivers when stopping on them.
articleThe Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) says that the lessons learned from the special pressures of the Olympics need translation into long term benefits for both the sector and its customers. Seven years of preparation – and two years of intensive training – paid off for the UK transport and logistics sector as it played its winning role in ensuring the success of the 2012 London Olympics.
newsHermes, the leading consumer delivery specialist, has linked up with Royal Logistics Corps and the Logistics Guild to help find employment for military personnel faced with redundancy.
productLogistics consultancy, Davies & Robson, has completed a successful logistics tender exercise for food manufacturer, Hain Daniels Group, following its acquisition of a number of brands from Premier Foods last year.
newsA Suffolk-based freight company has been sentenced for a series of safety breaches after a forklift truck toppled and spilled its load onto a worker, breaking his back.
articleMultichannel and reverse logistics specialist iForce has launched its first foray into Europe with a new venture in Holland.
productEMS innovator, ESCATEC, is building nearly a third of a million temperature monitors a year for Berlinger & Co of Switzerland.
articleASOS has appointed ByBox to provide a returns service utilising delivery lockers for online shoppers.
articlePalletways has launched the Platinum Club – a new initiative to reward its members for continuously enhancing their customer service performance.
articleOnline fashion retailer ASOS appoints Norbert Dentressangle to manage its worldwide distribution centre.
productSainsbury’s is trialling the world’s first naturally refrigerated trailer to transport chilled and frozen goods.
articleLuis Olivie, global business development director at supply chain management company Achilles says corporate buyers’ pleas of ignorance of supply chain mishap are no longer acceptable to lawmakers and consumers in a highly connected world where news is instant and opinions are all-pervading.
productThe government should not be spending over £50bn on the new High Speed 2 rail network just to shave minutes off passenger journeys, says Bill Goodwin, sales director of materials handling and logistics company Briggs Equipment.
newsThe Food Storage and Distribution Federation has appointed Garry Tilburn of Reed Boardall Cold Storage as its new president. Mr Tilburn succeeds Malcolm Johnstone, who has stepped down after three years in the role.
productInternational logistics service provider Torque has appointed Michael Peck to manage one of the distribution centres at its head office site in Wortley, Leeds.
productToolbank has appointed Norbert Dentressangle in a four-year deal using distribution via the logistic provider’s Red Inside solution, a dedicated service that also has the flexibility to manage variations in volume.
productMeachers Global Logistics has extended its contract with one of the world’s largest packaging companies, Huhtamaki, by a further three years and has also taken on all of the organisation’s UK external warehousing.
productDP World London Gateway has been honoured by rail freight operator DB Schenker Rail UK in a locomotive naming ceremony which took place at the rail terminal at the UK’s newest deep-sea container port and logistics park.
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