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Bevan adds ad feature to curtainsiders
Water cooler company Angel Springs has taken on Bevan’s fast access curtainsider bodies for 15 new trucks, with an added advertising feature. ...

 

London faces delivery disruption during 2012 Olympics
Delivery operators in London will have to plan for significant disruption during the 2012 Olympic Games as special “games lanes” will be created on key routes in the capital...

 

£13m Shell win for Wincanton
Shell Gas UK has renewed its contract with Wincanton for bulk tanker distribution of aerosol propellants and LPG ...

 

Norbert Dentressangle selected by Nicolas wines
French fine wine retailer Nicolas has chosen Norbert Dentressangle for its UK transport operations ...

 

Despatch rate boost for Past Times
Retail group Past Times says it has achieved a 300 per cent increase in despatch rate and eliminated shipping errors after moving over to MetaPack, the multi-carrier management platform...

 

Record result for Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo has recorded the best first-half result in its history, Stephan Gemkow the group’s chief financial officer, has revealed ...

 

City Link acquires Appleton Thorn unit
City Link has acquired a new 67,811 sq ft industrial unit at the Appleton Thorn trading estate in Warrington....

 

SAP slow to embrace cloud computing, say users
Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of SAP users believe that SAP had been slow to bring its SaaS suite to market, according to research by the UK & Ireland SAP User Group...

 

Wine logistics win for Trans Ocean
Liquid logistics company Trans Ocean has won a three year contract to import wines into the UK for Constellation Europe ...

 

Logistics sales pick up for Norbert Dentressangle
Logistics sales started to grow again in the second quarter for Norbert Dentressangle, according to revenue figures for the first half of 2010 ...

 

100 millionth tonne of coal for Freightliner
Freightliner Heavy Haul has delivered its 100 millionth tonne of coal since commencing coal haulage in December 2000...

 

Truck makers in talks on supply chain collaboration
Truck makers Scania and MAN are studying the potential for supply chain collaboration...

 

Halfords targets £4m savings from new NDC
Halfords Group is looking to its new national distribution centre to produce annual cost savings of £4 million a year, it said in its interim management statement...

 

Fortnum picks Vinotheque for wine storage
London City Bond, the wine and spirits logistics provider, has won a contract with Fortnum & Mason to store fine wines at its Vinotheque facility in Staffordshire. ...

 

Matalan chooses Quantum replenishment software
The fashion and homeware retailer Matalan has selected Quantum Retail’s Q software to run its store-level replenishment ...

 

Tradeteam and Volvo in driver safety study
UK drinks distributor Tradeteam is joining Volvo in a European driver safety study,- Euro- FOT, looking at driver behaviour in relation to on-board safety systems...

 

Waitrose names new supply chain director
The new supply chain director of Waitrose is to be David Jones, who is moving over from his current role as divisional registrar at parent group John Lewis...

 

Global supply chain for Vietnamese fish
Sea Products of Scotland has become the first customer to take ACS Logistics and Edge Worldwide Logistics’ new global, end-to-end service ...

 

Royal Mail promises service innovation with cloud computing
Royal Mail is going down the cloud computing route with a promise of innovative parcel delivery services to meet the demands of online shopping ...

 

Calor sponsors safety conference
Liquid petroleum gas supplier Calor has sponsored the Forklift Truck Association's safety conference for the second year ...

 

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