British Airways World Cargo saw a 4.7 per cent increase in sales, after the impact of exchange rate movement, to £615.7 million for the year ended March 2008.
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Asda’s distribution centre in Teesport has been presented with an award for its health and safety management by the British Safety Council.
Marks & Spencer reckons it has reduced carbon dioxide emissions from its warehouses, delivery vehicles stores and offices by nearly 50,000 tonnes, a nine per cent decrease on last year, despite opening 103 new stores.
Seafield Logistics has developed a mentoring programme for new starters and recently promoted staff, which has been shortlisted in the Training Award category for the UK Warehousing Association Awards 2008.
Lifelong Learning UK, an independent employer-led sector skills council, has launched its Make a Difference campaign in a bid to attract supply management professionals to roles within further education organisations.
The FTA has appointed Jo Tanner as director of communications, who will take up the role in July.
Warehouse and distribution provider Amethyst Group has agreed a five-year lease package, including maintenance, with Narrow Aisle’s Flexi trucks for its Wellesbourne site.
The industry should not “over-complicate” solutions to stop satellite navigation systems directing lorries down inappropriate roads, according to the Freight Transport Association.
BMI Cargo UK has appointed Transnautic Aero Poland, the Polish member of the EGSAC network, as its offline GSSA, with immediate effect.
National Learning at Work Day, which aims to improve workforce skills, is taking part on 22 May and Skills for Logistics is urging businesses in the moving, storing, handling of goods and the wholesale sectors to take part.
