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.
Who owns the logistics industry? On the face of it, that might seem a bizarre question, but even a superficial survey reveals changing patterns of investment around Europe.
Logistics networks went out of fashion 20 years ago as companies found that the higher service levels offered by dedicated solutions outweighed the higher costs. But, slowly, the market has been swinging back towards more collaborative ways of working tha
Frobisher, asset manager to UBS Triton Fund, has obtained planning consent for development of a 43,500 sq ft high-bay distribution unit on Walworth Industrial Estate, Andover. The existing buildings will be demolished and the site cleared ready for constr
More evidence of the impact of the credit crunch on supply chains comes from the Aberdeen Group, which suggests that adopting technology to improve productivity will help businesses in the supply chain weather the storm.
