Barloworld Handling has invested £6 million in 340 Hyster forklifts for its short-term hire fleet, increasing its total investment over the last year to £10 million.
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Aggregate supplier Tarmac Trupak has replaced its 26-strong trailer fleet as part of a five-year contract hire agreement with GE’s TIP Trailer Services.
Management Dynamics has developed Air Rate Manager, an on-demand application to help companies manage air freight costs more efficiently.
Building materials company Marley Eternit, part of the Etex Group, has awarded Wincanton a five-year contract to distribute roofing products from its UK sites in Glasgow and Reading.
The Ministry of Defence has renewed its contract with freight exchange service Freightex to use its software to optimise its road freight.
Kellogg’s has relocated its cereals and food warehousing to a site in Manchester’s Trafford Park, which is to be managed by TDG on a five-year contract worth around £11 million annually.
A mobile yard ramp from Thorworld Industries is being used with heavy construction equipment at the Terex facility in Warwick. It is used for offloading new machines arriving from the company’s Coventry plant and other European sites where these are not d
Developer Kenmore has secured planning consent from Hillingdon Council for the development of two distribution warehouses at Hayes Xchange, its new distribution/warehouse development near Heathrow Airport.
The fact that the government has finally bowed to public pressure and scrapped increases in fuel duty planned for October has been widely welcomed by the industry -and only a few cynics have pointed out that it chose the run-up to a sensitive by-election
Doré Metal Services has been able to improve storage capacity and efficiency as a result of moving to Atlet Forte UFS four-way reach trucks which support a new way of working with higher storage density.