Marks & Spencer reckons it has reduced carbon dioxide emissions from its warehouses, delivery vehicles stores and offices by nearly 50,000 tonnes, a nine per cent decrease on last year, despite opening 103 new stores.
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Seafield Logistics has developed a mentoring programme for new starters and recently promoted staff, which has been shortlisted in the Training Award category for the UK Warehousing Association Awards 2008.
Lifelong Learning UK, an independent employer-led sector skills council, has launched its Make a Difference campaign in a bid to attract supply management professionals to roles within further education organisations.
The FTA has appointed Jo Tanner as director of communications, who will take up the role in July.
Warehouse and distribution provider Amethyst Group has agreed a five-year lease package, including maintenance, with Narrow Aisle’s Flexi trucks for its Wellesbourne site.
The industry should not “over-complicate” solutions to stop satellite navigation systems directing lorries down inappropriate roads, according to the Freight Transport Association.
BMI Cargo UK has appointed Transnautic Aero Poland, the Polish member of the EGSAC network, as its offline GSSA, with immediate effect.
National Learning at Work Day, which aims to improve workforce skills, is taking part on 22 May and Skills for Logistics is urging businesses in the moving, storing, handling of goods and the wholesale sectors to take part.
Dachser, which partnered with Russian company Intellect Logistics at the end of last year, has established a new company called OOO Dachser, based in Moscow, in a bid to strengthen its position in the Russian market.
TallyGenicom has added the 2440 and 2540 models to its dot matrix business printer range.