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Vantec has officially opened its new 421,000 sq ft warehouse at Turbine Park, Sunderland
Ecolab, which makes chemical and medical products, has awarded a chemicals contract to Norbert Dentressangle
Administrators have been appointed for 808 X-Ray Logistics Limited, the Heathrow-based company which specialised in cargo handling for freight forwarders around the airport.
New15.65-metre long semi-trailers are enabling TNT Express to remove partly-filled trailers from its network, the company reckons.
Truck registrations fell 19.6 per cent to 2,882 units in January, according to the Society of Motor manufacturers and Traders. Even so, they were still 2.1 per cent up for the rolling 12 months
Peel Ports has put a bigger vessel on its Manchester Ship Canal container service to meet an increase in demand from customers who include Kellogg, Princes Foods and Kingsland Wine
No Limit, the Polish 3PL, has awarded SDI Group a contract to install a push tray unit sorter at its multi-client distribution centre, outside Warsaw in Poland
