AirBridge Cargo is taking delivery of its fourth Boeing 747 freighter, for scheduled flights to Hong Kong.
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On the road and in the warehouse, the pressure is mounting to be more environmentally friendly. Later this year there will be the introduction of a tough new regime for exhaust emissions from trucks with the Euro 4 legislation.
NAI Fuller Peiser and the Freight Transport Association’s latest research into the Road Transport Directive – the part of the Working Time Directive aimed specifically at the logistics sector – has revealed that its predictions last year are coming true.
Chelsea (General Partner), the joint venture company between Chancerygate and clients of Insight Investment, has sold the Union Quay warehouse on Clayton Road, Hayes in Middlesex to Property and Management Services for £6.756m.
RAM Spreaders has launched its new RAM Flexlift for twin 40ft or 45ft container handling. The lift has been trialled at Hutchison Port Holding’s Yantian Port where the lift achieved 60 x 40ft container movements per hour in its fourth operation.
The government must speed up its plans for introducing road pricing, according to a new report from the CILT (UK). It said it welcomes the government’s commitment to road pricing as being the only effective way to tackle congestion.
United Utilities has replaced Arrowcroft with Gazeley as preferred developer at its 65,030 sq m (700,000 sq ft) Axis Park scheme in Liverpool.
TDG has taken 22,110 sq m (238,000 sq ft) at the former Cummins Factory in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, in one of the biggest lettings in the region for five years.
The Port of Felixstowe has welcomed the inaugural call of the world’s largest container ship, the Cosco Ningbo.
Professor Alan McKinnon, director of Logistics Research at Heriot -Watt University, told delegates that at any given time, there is £460m worth of freight in transit on UK roads.
