Browsing: Logistics

Watching the transcontinental trucks thunder down the motorway focusses the mind on all that burning diesel. Can’t we use trains more?

With transport costs rising and green issues increasingly on the agenda. The FMCG sector needs to adopt a more collaborative approach to solving the sector’s distribution challenges, says Hugh Basham

According to the World Trade Organisation the yearly real growth of world merchandise exports averaged six per cent in 2005 after outstandingly strong growth of 9.5 per cent in the preceding year. With such rapid growth in global trade and with consolida

DHL has taken on the challenge of chaperoning the Special Olymic flame as it journeys around the world. Chris Muntwyler describes some of the challenges involved.

The nature and scope of third party logistics contracts reveals a lot about the state of the market. Our exclusive survey looks at some of the major deals signed in the past year and looks at industry confidence for the coming year.

Transport secretary Ruth Kelly has promised more than £200 million to start work on a strategic freight network in the Department for Transport’s rail White Paper.