Friday - 03 September 2010

Unilever targets supply chain emissions

UnileverConsumer goods giant Unilever has come up with a new tool designed to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chain


Breaking News

RH Freight launches daily Helsinki service
Road freight network operator RH Freight, has launched a daily service from the UK to Helsinki...

Norbert Dentressangle takes West Midlands shed
Norbert Dentressangle has taken Legal & General’s 141,770 sq ft warehouse at Centurion Park, Tamworth on a ten-year lease at a rent of £4.75 per sq ft....

Build to suit on the up
Build to suit warehouses accounted for 30 per cent of all take up in the second quarter of this year according to the latest Jones Lang LaSalle warehouse report. ...

Aggressive action needed to cut transport emissions
AEA, a climate change consultancy, has told the European Commission that it will take ambitious and aggressive measures to achieve a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from transport...

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Features

Always look on the bright side...
Although grade A space is disappearing and fast there are still some cracking deals to be had, reports Liza Helps....

Who's hiring whom?
There's no denying it's been a tough old year for the third party logistics sector, but that hasn't stopped the contracts rolling in. Lucy Tesseras takes a look at the latest deals....

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Case Studies

Fashioning the future of designer deliveries
Freight forwarder Bellville Rodair International established a dedicated high end fashion division called Couture five years ago. ...

Linde helps Poundland meet seasonal peaks
Discount retailer Poundland has increased its specialist forklift truck fleet by 50 per cent on short-term rental from Linde Material Handling to help it meet seasonal peaks in demand....

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Viewpoint

Keep very quiet - and you might be allowed out at night
It's been very long slow process, but the government is coming round to the idea that there is a logic to making deliveries at nights and weekends. Malory Davies looks at proposals...

Think global, act local
Over the past few years the growth of globalisation has challenged logisticians to deal with the massive changes of moving from local to international supply chains. ...

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