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Don’t forget the freight, says FTA
Rail freight should not be forgotten amid all the hype about the government’s recently announced plans for high speed rail services. ...

Hermes trials fuel saving technology
Hermes is trialling two commercial vehicles with Bevan21 aerodynamic bodies, which promise fuel savings of more than 15 per cent, to measure their effectiveness. ...

New docks for Wealmoor factory
Fruit and vegetable wholesaler Wealmoor has chosen Stertil Stokvis loading docks at its new factory in Atherstone on Stour, Warwickshire. ...

LIDL picks SSI Schaefer for new system
German food retailer LIDL has selected SSI Schaefer’s case picking system for its logistics centre at Kirchheim/Teck in Germany....

Features

High and mighty
There has been a surge of new development in the heavy duty materials handling market of late as manufacturers boost their offering in a bid to beat the recession. Lucy Tesseras invertigates...

Rise of the e-pick face
Picking strategies are changing radically, driven by the mounting pressures caused by the explosion of e-commerce. Jessica Davies reports. ...

Case Studies

Online retailer cuts delivery costs
Online retailer Tackle Discounts has upped its sales by 30 – 40 per cent and cut delivery costs by 15 per cent, since going live with a delivery management system from MetaPack. ...

John Lewis overcomes storage challenge with Barloworld
John Lewis has upped its storage capacity since rolling out a VNA handling system from Barloworld, which enables its staff to work with walk-on racking at heights of over ten metres....

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. ...