The Strategic Rail Authority’s (SRA) recently launched a new policy document – Strategic Rail Freight Interchanges (SRFIs) – to establish a clear framework for promoting and facilitating the delivery of SRFIs (large freight villages) in the context of the
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The Potter Group has won a £300,000 a year contract from Huntingdon-based Supreme Concrete to store and distribute concrete building products. Materials weighing up to 50,000 tonnes will be handled annually through the Potter Group’s Selby r
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected the Amey Lex Consortium (ALC) as the preferred bidder for its C Vehicle Capability Private Finance Initiative programme (PFI), the revenue for which is expected to be worth more than £500M over 15 years. The prog
Designed specifically for use in a retail environment, the new two-tier Linshelf solution from Linpac Storage Systems provides cost-effective storage that maximises available height and fully uses cubic storage capacity.
Up until April 30, 2004 the EU comprised 15 member states, known as EU-15. However, that changed the next day on May 1 as the EU enlargement process began with the addition of ten new member states – known as the Accession Countries – and will now be refe
It comes as no surprise that a multi-billion dollar manufacturer has suffered inefficiencies within its supply chain. The manufacturing and selling of products is its business which perhaps led it take to a “Cinderella approach” towards its logistics and
Historically, the technical breakthrough in intermodal freight transport came with the invention of the modern container (a steel box of a standard size, measured in 20ft equivalent units known as TEUs) by Malcolm Maclean in the 1960s.
Culina Logistics has opened a new facility that adds 7,998sq m of temperature-controlled warehousing to its current distribution centre portfolio. The new warehouse, located in Higher Heath close to Culina’s £26M Market Drayton site, provides a fur
Pre-retail logistics provider DTS Logistics has invested more than £2.5M in expanding its vehicle fleet to support new dedicated contract operations. These include two with high street retailers Woolworths and Rubicon, owner of the fashion brands P
Chesterfield-based Mentor FLT Training has developed a new way of assessing and training forklift truck drivers by using a simulator. Called Safetruck Training Simulator combines the state-of-the-art interactive training tool incorporates all the contr