Cartwright has built a specially-designed trailer and dock loading system for News International.
Browsing: Logistics
Freightliner Heavy Haul has won a contract for the rail haulage of potash and salt from Boulby Mine to Tees Dock terminal and Cobra Rail freight, Middlesbrough.
Wincanton has won a contract with Volkswagen Logistics to deliver workshop equipment including tools, engines, packaging and rejected goods to seven locations from its operation in Braunschweig.
Marks and Spencer is following in the steps of TNT and Ceva and testing the Smith Newton, a zero emission, 7.5 tonne battery powered truck, designed for city centre deliveries.
TDG has completed the first run of its rail service from Purfleet to Grangemouth in Scotland, from where goods are shipped to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge.
Trilogy Logistics has won a contract with children’s entertainment producers and rights-owner Hit Entertainment.
Tesco has bought 15 electric vans from Modec for its online food delivery service.
Plumbing supplier Wolseley has taken delivery of more than 50 Luton-bodied Mercedes Benz Sprinter 311CDI chassis cabs.
What are the key challenges facing the logistics sector in 2007? Claude Boisselet examines five of this year’s major preoccupations.
Western manufacturers now need to know more about managing networks than they do about making things. Outsourcing manufacturing to distant low cost economies may cut unit costs but increased complexity and risk are creating new challenges for the supply
