Globalisation and the opening of the single European market have stimulated a massive growth in international freight transport. However, it is apparent that Europe’s transport system has failed to keep pace with this growth. Presently, Europe’s transport
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A state-of-the-art plastic pallet has been added to Teacrate Food’s range of returnable transit packaging (RTP) equipment and which is available through the company’s crate rental and management system.
Logistics provider Yearsley Cold Storage and Distribution is investing £5M to add a 47,000cu m cold storage and chilled unit at its Heywood head office in the North-west.
Savi Technology, Matrics and the MIT Auto-ID Centre have teamed up to offer an integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) solution that simultaneously monitors the conveyances that transport products.
A new fleet of Jungheinrich counterbalanced forklifts, reach trucks and pallet transporters is playing a key role in the manufacture and on-time despatch of breakfast cereals from Dailycer’s manufacturing plant in Deeside.
Although the additional rental information being sought is intended to lead to greater accuracy in the initial Rateable Value assessment, it is likely that because of the volume of properties covered – as with previous Revaluations – thousands of these va
Rotex Europe has moved to a new, purpose-built site on the Whitehouse Vale Industrial Estate, off the M56 near Warrington. The company, which supplies screening, feeding and conveyor equipment, needed an extended warehousing area and an improved
House of Fraser, the department store group and retailer of designer brands, has chosen Manhattan Associates’ Warehouse Management System (WMS) to run its two principal distribution facilities in the UK. Manhattan Associates’ Labour Management and Perfo
growth over the past five years, for example in the Midlands – Hams Hall, Birmingham and DIRFT – other areas, principally north of the A50 corridor, have seen much lower patterns of growth.
Nowadays, fewer and fewer companies hold stock and product reserves on site, as this can often tie up critical cash requirements.
