Change in the retail landscape is moving the goalposts for urban deliveries. Balancing the demands of high street and home deliveries is creating new challenges – and then there is the drive to be greener and cleaner. Malory Davies reports
Browsing: Logistics
Waitrose is starting to producing frozen beef from its own dedicated production facility in Dovecote Park, with the aim of ensuring full traceability of the product
Schoeller Allibert has invested in a blow moulding machine in response to increasing demand for its folding bulk shipper, the Maxipac, hoping to double its in-house production capacity
Burkhard Eling is taking over the finance, legal and tax department at Dascher as of 1 July, succeeding Professor Dr Dieter Truxius, who will remain a member of the company’s management until his retirement at the end of this year
Provider of reusable container and pallet pooling services, CHEP, has won a contract extension with Dutch automotive supplier Bosal, for a sustainable solution to the transport of its automotive components in Europe
EnerSys has increased the amp-hour (AH) rating of its 23” Ironclad Workhog and Deserthog batteries, from 85 AH to 90 AH, to to provide more sustained voltages and power to today’s AC lift trucks
Warrington Borough Council has granted planning permission for Travis Perkins’ 700,000 sq ft regional logistics centre at Omega North
More than 20 retailers, manufacturers and logistics organisations are now backing Novus, the new degree course which guarantees a job to graduates
Fowler Welch has launched a new livery with a more contemporary globe design and the strap-line “Listening, Responding, Delivering”
UPS has launched a shipment monitoring and risk management service for high value shipments that are time and temperature sensitive
