Ryder is to spend £15.7 million next year on 671 rental vehicles, ranging from 3.5 tonne vans to 18 tonne trucks.
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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).
Steel distributor NSD has renewed its contract with Seafield Logistics for another three years.
Skills for Logistics is a one of twenty-five sector skills councils (SSC), covering the main sectors of UK plc.
Bibby Distribution has won a three-year contract with Suzuki to distribute motorcycles around the UK, along with all terrain vehicles and marine finished goods.
Andrew Austin has been appointed vice president of European operations at Schneider Logistics. He will be based at Venlo in The Netherlands.
Operational trials are starting of an electric truck that could show the way forward for urban deliveries.
Christian Salvesen pushed up sales 7.5 per cent to £433m in the first half but tough conditions in the transport market meant that profit before tax and exceptionals was down from £8.1m to £7.1m.
A recruitment company launched this month aims to develop complete solutions.
Rentokil Initial, which owns express operator City Link, is buying Target Express for £210 million. So far, it says, it has received acceptances for 90 per cent of the share capital with the balance expected no later than the end of the year.
