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Tesco is saving 50,000 road miles and cutting 61 tonnes in carbon dioxide emissions annually since installing a Transdek double-deck lift at its Belfast DC to receive its new double-deck trailers.

When Malcolm Rail took over operations at Daventry International Railfreight Terminal last year, its first point of call was to team up with Cooper Specialised Handling to find a way to speed up the required 6,000 weekly lifts and cut running costs.

On the day Palletforce cut the red tape on its £30 million, 380,000 sq ft hub in Burton-on-Trent it saw, for the first time, the result of nearly two years’ worth of careful planning.

Paragon and Isotrak have completed the “transport efficiency jigsaw” in a project for Sainsbury’s by combining the capabilities of the former’s routeing, scheduling and resource optimisation software with the latter’s real-time transport execution and

Faber Music Distribution – one of Europe’s largest music distributors and a subsidiary of music publisher Faber Music Ltd – has implemented a voice picking system from Zetes at its Essex-based distribution centre, to help it deal with the 46,000 order lin