http://www.logisticsmanager.com The online home of Logistics Manager magazine: news, jobs, and features for supply chain professionals http://www.logisticsmanager.com/images/logistics_logo.gif http://www.logisticsmanager.com http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14550 ATMS, the Birmingham-based logistics IT provider, has been appointed UK and Middle East distributor for the Navista range of mobile terminals http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14550 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14549 Consumer goods giant Unilever has come up with a new tool designed to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chain http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14549 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14548 Road freight network operator RH Freight, has launched a daily service from the UK to Helsinki http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14548 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14547 Logistics technology supplier Cargo Wise has made Adam Kossak its commercial director http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14547 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14546 Deutsche Post is to start testing 15 Mercedes-Benz Vito E-Cell vans from the autumn. http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14546 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14545 The Unipart Group has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard, which is awarded to companies that have taken direct action rather than paying to off-set their emissions http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14545 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14544 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. http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14544 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14543 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. http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14543 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14538 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 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14538 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14540 Toyota Material Handling has launched a new range of compact electric forklifts with three new models offering capacities of 2.0 tonnes, 2.5 tonnes and 3.0 tonnes promising better performance that their predecessors http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14540 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14539 KoamTac has released the KTSync keyboard wedge and application generation software for its KDC line of barcode scanners designed to work with smart phones like the iPhone http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14539 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14537 Accenture has won a £103 million ($160m) contract extension to manage the end-to-end supply chain for US group Educational Testing Service http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14537 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14536 Zara is set to launch an e-commerce site tomorrow (2nd September), which will offer customers the option of 48-hour delivery. http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14536 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14535 UK manufacturing continued to recover in August, but rates of expansion in production and new orders slowed further, according to the latest Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI. http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14535 http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14520 LPG supplier Calor reckons that gas is catching up with diesel as a fuel for counterbalance trucks http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=14520