The Logistics College North West has launched a new initiative to encourage women living in the North West to consider a career in the logistics industry.
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Lafarge Cement has renewed its £22m distribution contract with Turners.
DHL Global Mail, part of the Deutsche Post World Net, has chosen Four Soft’s 4S iLogistics software to help manage its operations.
Primark’s new Lutterworth distribution centre will shortly become fully operational after it was devasted by a fire last year, costing £100m in damages.
TDG won more new business than in the first half of 2005 and also secured the bulk of its contracts scheduled for renewal. Net business wins of £34m were up by more than 60 per cent.
The new building took nearly a year to plan and erect and Total was consulting at the site over that time period. “The previous plant was at Dun Laoghaire, some seven miles south of Dublin,” says Ian O’Toole, project manager for Cadbury.
A new national hub for the Co-operative group has been officially opened in Coventry. The site will serve the 3,300 stores, that form the Co-operative Retail Trading Group.
Gazeley is to launch Felixstowe Portside – a “port-centric” logistics park development, supported by the Port of Felixstowe.
TM Logistics has selected Tranman software from VT Software, to manage its fleet of 200 vehicles and 300 trailers. TM Logistics, part of Taylors of Martley, operates from 16 company and customer-owned sites nationally.
The European Commission has recognised the key role that freight transport and logistics are making to the expanded European economy in its new transport policy statement, says the Freight Transport Association.