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Legislation on how to implement green measures, is not clear enough and the result is confusion and misunderstanding, according to a sustainability survey by office and refurbishment fit out specialists Overbury.

John Craven of Whitecroft Lighting says that traditionally warehouses used HID luminaires like the Whitecroft Harrier which delivers high efficiency in the region of 80 per cent.

Eight ways to improve the environmental performance of your warehouse:

Batteries are a green alternative to diesel engines, in the running of forklifts with total component recovery of 83.6 per cent

Integration is the name of the game for fleet management software. Enabling systems to talk to each other is not only giving manager visibility of distribution operations – it is enabling them to make changes in real time. Malory Davies reports.

Goldstar Transport installed the Truckcom fleet & job management system for its fleet following a trial.

Wincanton, the leading European logistics supply chain management company, has worked with Civica over a number of years to develop an integrated system for the management and control of the Woolworths fleet of tractor and trailor units.

NetDespatch has produced a “virtual warehouse” for Simply Sleep, the memory foam mattress supplier, by using web technology to eliminate the need for stock holding on site.

The nature and scope of third party logistics contracts reveals a lot about the state of the market. Our exclusive survey looks at some of the major deals signed in the past year and looks at industry confidence for the coming year.