Kalmar has received an order for six DRF 450-60S reach stackers, with an option for an additional 14, from Hind Terminals in Mumbai, India.
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The Haven Gateway, which takes in Felixstowe and Harwich, moved a step closer to “Growth Point” status when the government said it was “minded to” approve an application by the Haven Gateway Partnership.
Northern Foods is to sell off its distribution arm, NFT Distribution, as part of a major restructuring which will see it disposing of businesses that represent 40 per cent of group revenue.
Impact Toyota has won a contract worth £250,000 to supply and maintain some 23 counterbalance trucks to Debach Enterprises, the Ipswich based transport and warehouse provider.
Classic Drinks, the drinks wholesaler and distribution company, has replaced its fleet with 16 new MAN TGL 7.180 4×2 BB 7.5 tonners. The replacements have been supplied with two-year warranty packages by MAN ERF Manchester.
Slough Estates, new owner of Heywood Distribution Park near Manchester, is to build speculatively there.
Woodward Foodservice has won a three-year contract worth £12m to supply fresh, frozen, chilled and ambient food to all 230 Little Chef outlets across the UK.
Vanderlande has won a contract with Polish company Huhtamäki, for the delivery and installation of an order consolidation system based on the Variostore HDS.
The FTA and RHA are calling on the government to introduce a system of collecting information from visiting lorry operators and drivers which, in future, could be subsumed “into a formal European database exchange”.
Growth of the northern ports contributes to the growth of UK competitiveness as well as more sustainable patterns of distribution by bringing goods closer to their end destinations and avoiding long haul road and rail journeys from ports in the south,
