In the highly competitive supermarket sector customers want a wide variety of quality products available 24-hours a day, and at the right price. This means retailers must continuously balance all aspects of their supply and demand chain management and inv
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Construction has begun on five new production and distribution buildings totalling 7,896sq m on the nine-acre Catesby Park, Kings Norton, South Birmingham, and already one has been pre-sold and there is keen interest in two more.
Associated British Ports (ABP) has reached a 25-year agreement with DFDS Tor Line, the Danish roll-on/roll-off shipping line, to develop a new £35M riverside terminal for unit-load traffic at the Port of Immingham. The new facility will be a 200,000sq m r
Allibert Buckhorn has launched a new extended length bulk box – its largest at a huge 2,059 litres capacity. Designed specifically for the storage and distribution of long or bulky items, extended length boxes are ideal for the automotive, plastics proces
Palanackie-based haulier TP Niven has taken delivery of a concept tractor unit from Crossland Tankers as part of its programme to update the fleet. The concept tractor unit is a Volvo FM12 6×2 tractor unit which has the pumping and metering equipment, ess
Derrick Potter, board member of the Rail Freight Group and chairman of the Potter Group, a leading independent UK road and rail logistics service provider, has welcomed a new incentive to boost rail freight announced by the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA).
LOGISTICS LINK 2004 proved to be yet another winner, for the third year, running with more than 1,600 logistics professionals having converged on Sandown Park, Esher, Surrey, to see the latest technologies and service provision designed to drive down cost
Dublin-based haulier O’Reilly Transport (Heysham) has taken delivery of 15 new Volvo FH12 Globetrotters, making the mainland UK side of the company now 100% Volvo. The order takes O’Reilly’s count to 60 Volvos in the past three years alone, heralding a co
Fullers Logistics, the key logistics partner to Masterfoods’ (formerly Mars Confectionery) site in Slough, has awarded a major contract to integrated materials handling and storage equipment company Locators to supply a range of Toyota industrial equipmen
The Elica Group, which manufactures cooker hoods, has selected TXT e-solutions to provide software solutions to support new developments throughout all of its supply chain. The agreement envisages implementation of an organisational model assigning resp
