Browsing: Logistics & Supply Chain

Following an adjustment to its contract logistics strategy in 2013, after a volatile year for the sector in 2012, Kuehne + Nagel has recorded year-on-year growth of 8.1 per cent for the first nine months of 2014 in its contract logistics division

Access Group has appointed Paul Bosson as its chief financial officer, with the firm exhibiting at this week’s Logistics Link North, which takes place Wednesday to Thursday

McLaren Construction has been awarded the contract to build the new 323,000 sq ft technology and logistics centre for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

The Freight Transport Association has pledged its support to a pilot project that will raise the speed limit for heavy goods vehicles on the A9 in Scotland from 40mph to 50mph

Booths’ has installed two tailor-made 6.5 tonne double deck lifts supplied by Transdek UK at its Bluebell distribution centre on the outskirts of Preston

TAP Portugal has signed a four-year agreement for the supply and management of its unit load devices with CHEP Aerospace, which will be exhibiting at next week’s Logistics Link North

Total has renewed a contract with Wincanton, which will see the latter manage Total’s maintenance warehouse at Lindsey Oil Refinery in Lincolnshire for a further three years

Rising volumes of air and ocean freight has led DHL to introduce a freight capacity management programme

Rico Logistics has appointed Tracy Jump head of human resources. Before joining Rico, Jump worked for DHL UK for ten years where she was head of HR and subsequently promoted to HR director

Herman Jorgensen has become UK managing director of GAC, based at the company’s Grangemouth office, working alongside the company’s finance and human resources functions. He was formerly general manager at GAC Norway