Seven, the privately-owned logistics support services group based in Ipswich, has acquired H J Calver Ltd, the Felixstowe based container transporter, for an undisclosed sum.
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Asda has renewed its contract with TruckLOG’s manufacturer, Davis Derby. Davis has been supplying the TruckLOG access control modules and fleet management systems to Asda, since 1998.
“We are a polluter,” said Ken Hall, vice president of Prologis told delegates. “We recognise that we have a responsibility.” Prologis along with other leading developers, has been developing more environmentally friendly warehouses.
TDG has secured the fuel distribution contract with Tesco in the south west and south east of England.
There was an error in the article “Yearsley buys Celsius depots” on page 5 of the May 2006 edition of Logistics Manager relating to the cold store at Hams Hall.
Management Dynamics has announced that it has formed a partnership with ILM Technologies, to offer a range of online business and trading services to manufacturers and exporters.
HFT Forklifts has won a £1.6m contract to supply the forklift fleet for Larchlap, a UK manufacturer of garden fence panels. The 78 vehicle fleet is expected to be operational at Larchlap’s four depots in England, Scotland and Wales by June.
A recent change to TUPE regulations, means that 3PLs taking on new contracts, may find that the previous contractor’s workforce has been transferred to them, leaving them responsible for redundancy payments and potentially liable for unfair dismissal clai
David Hindson, director of marketing and strategy for TDG, told delegates that third party logistics suppliers had to decide which road they wanted to ggo down if they wanted to prosper.
I attended an RFID seminar just recently where the presenter was bemoaning the fact he kept hearing the phrase: RFID is difficult you know – you have to understand the “laws of physics”
