UPS has started construction on its 355,000 sq ft overnight parcel facility at IM Properties Birch Coppice scheme in Warwickshire.
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Atlantic rate rise From the beginning of 2007, Maersk Line is to charge an extra $300 for each container travelling from Europe to North America. Hapag-Lloyd is also raising rates for the North Atlantic and the US West Coast.
Confectionery manufacturer Swizzels Matlow has bought three Linde T 20 AP stand on pallet trucks.
The warehouse management system is at the core of the logistics operation and the basic functionality is well defined but there are still areas of development.
Gazeley has been awarded the Best Sustainability Innovation Award for its sustainable warehouse buildings featured at Magna Park in Lutterworth at the 2006 Local Authority Building Control Awards (LABC).
The PWC Logistics group, which includes Geo Logistics, TransOceanic, and Trans-Link, is rebranding as Agility.
Monkhill gets sweet Monkhill Confectionery, a division of Cadbury Trebor Bassett, is installing Lawson Software’s Quickstep Food and Beverage software across its four sites in Pontefract, York, Leeds and Cleckheaton.
Unilever is running a trial of Electronic Product Code Information Service to collect and access information from within its logistics environment and from trading partners in the supply chain.
Landlords have agreed a new voluntary Code of Practice for commercial leases, which will considerably benefit tenants in the future, according to Charles Woollam, a partner at property consultancy Donaldsons,
Bibby Distribution has won a five and a half year warehousing and distribution contract with Parlane International, an importer of modern home accessories.
