The Cumbria Logistics Employer Forum (CLEF), a partnership between local authorities and logistics businesses, has been set up to increase and strengthen the logistics skills pool in the region.
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The government has renewed the licence to operate for Skills for Logistics, the sector skills council for the freight logistics industry, following a review carried out by the National Audit Office on behalf of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
Demand for new vans rose by 8.81 per cent to 8,978 in February.
The Kühne School of Logistics and Management is founding a private independent university: The Kühne Logistics University (KLU), which will become part of the Hamburg cluster for logistics research institutes.
WaitroseDeliver, the online grocery shopping service, has chosen to X2 Computing to supply a new generation of product picking trolleys and hardware.
Some 45 per cent of logistics professionals feel more stressed at work than this time last year, according to a survey by Inform.
Pub operator Mitchells & Butlers has extened its contract with Tradeteam for a further five years covering distribution of drinks to some 2,000 pubs, restaurants and bars.
AS Watson, parent company of Superdrug and Savers is set to switch its entire fleet of 101 trucks to Mercedes-Benz.
Citizen Systems Europe has developed an entry level printer designed to reduce the cost of producing labels in both transport and logistics applications.
The Freight Transport Association has welcomed government plans to abandon the narrow focus of its congestion charging policy via the Transport Innovation Fund in favour of the Urban Challenge Fund.
