Southern African Airways has promoted Jaspreet Bamrah to the role of cargo manager UK & Ireland, following Mick Rowley’s retirement.
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Kewill has appointed Nicole van der Meijs as international business consultant within its Global Trade Management team in Europe.
The FTA has described plans to increase fuel duty by 2 pence per litre in the UK as “unthinkable” instead insisting it should be cut by 25 pence per litre to bring it in line with the rest of Europe.
The Royal Mail Group has awarded IT and business services company Logica a five year contract to install and support two centralised business intelligence systems for the Post Office.
Specialist video-game retailer Game Stores chose Vanderlande’s cross-belt sorter to help boost productivity by making picking operations faster, more flexible and accurate.
ProLogis has “no exposure to empty rates legislation at the present time”, Robert Watson, chief executive of ProLogis European Properties, has told the company’s annual meeting. “Demand in the UK has been driven by internet and conventional retailers
Over the past few years insurance costs for commercial buildings have risen beyond inflation. High profile incidents such as the Buncefield fuel depot explosion in Hertfordshire in 2005, have continued to drive premiums higher.
Godwin Pumps, which manufactures pumping equipment, bought two Kardex Shuttle XPs to help deal with its increasingly high stock levels and maximise space at its 10,000 sq m site in Quenington.
Amazon has opened its 800,000 sq ft distribution facility in Swansea and has launched a huge recruitment drive to find some 1,000 staff.
I am privileged to have worked in the logistics sector for many years. While I don’t quite go back to the days when Pontius was a pilot, I have been fortunate enough to work with and for some real characters whose working lives dated back to the post-war
