UK shoppers spent £5.46 billion online in December – the equivalent of £88.93 for every person in the UK – up 17 per cent on December 2008, according to IMRG Capgemini’s e-Retail Sales Index.
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Brakes is working with Eddie Stobart Rail Freight to transport fresh produce from Spain into the UK for Pauleys, its fresh produce specialist.
SBS Worldwide has appointed Lars Kloch US managing director, in a bid to strengthen its presence in North America.
Schmitz Cargobull is warning that trailer prices will rise across Europe in the coming months, as a result of spiralling material costs.
Prax Petroleum has extended its contract with TDG to store and blend fuels at its Dagenham terminal, by a minimum of ten years.
Damco has chosen SaviTrak – a wireless tracking intelligence service from Savi Networks –to help boost visibility and security of global container shipments.
A Driver CPC Consortium has been launched, aimed at helping logistics companies to implement in-house Driver CPC training.
Spar Netherlands and transport company Peter Appel have struck a deal to use R-744 cooled temperature control units supplied by Thermo King.
Chocolate maker Cadbury, has upgraded its Australian national distribution centre in Melbourne, resulting in a 20 per cent productivity improvement to the automatic storage and retrieval crane system in its warehouse.
Wincanton is investing to create capacity in the foodservice sector – one of a number which it says, have a “potentially transformational impact” on its business.
