Browsing: Logistics

Rail freight operator Direct Rail Services has ordered a fleet of newly designed mixed traffic diesel locomotives for use in its intermodal and passenger train operations

The final month of 2011 provided a positive end to the year for UK service providers as activity and incoming new business both rose at their strongest rates since July, according to the latest Markit/CIPS survey

Daxbourne International, a supplier of hair pieces and wigs needed to bolster its supply chain operation to increase capacity, after growing its business through retail, wholesale, e-commerce, mail order, and TV shopping channels

Johanna Parsons writes: Recruiting staff into logistics roles is not always the easiest of tasks, but now there is an innovative scheme from the Prince’s Trust, Get into Logistics, which offers targeted schemes to help disadvantaged youngsters develop car

Comedian Alun Cochrane presided over a dramatic evening at the Park Lane Hilton in London as 70 of Europe’s leading companies battled it out for the prestigious European Supply Chain Excellence Awards. Lucy Tesseras, Johanna Parsons and Nick Allen report

Companies are increasingly concerned about their carbon footprints. And despite the fact that logistics operations are being squeezed to record levels, many businesses are harnessing carbon efficiencies as a way to unlock new potential. Johanna Parsons