Skills for Logistics, the sector skills council for the logistics sector is developing a three-year School’s Programme to introduce the study of supply chain to 14-16 year olds.
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RS Components UK has awarded a two-year contract worth more than £1 million per year to CitySprint.
Volga-Dnepr Group is to take delivery of five Boeing 747-8F freighters with an option to purchase five more.
Freightliner Southampton has add two more services each day to the North West, bringing the total number of daily services to 17.
Palletforce has become a sponsor of the Logistics Countdown to 2012 Forum, an organisation established to help service the extensive infrastructure requirements for the build-up to the 2012 London Olympics.
Norbert Dentressangle saw its operating profit rise 34 per cent to 69.2m euros in 2006 while sales were up 15 per cent to 1.6 billion euros.
The Transport and General Workers Union and Amicus are to merge creating the UK’s biggest trade union with about two million members.
Q8 Oils has chosen Turners of Soham for its bulk distribution. It will be using two specially-liveried MAN TGAs with dedicated drivers to deliver bulk oils around the UK.
There were two big happenings that affected the market in 2006: the advent of digital tachographs in May and the introduction of Euro 4 emission standards in October. Like everyone, we tried our best to anticipate what these two would do to demand.
The past year has been the most momentous in our history, says Neil Crossthwaite, managing director of Ceva Logistics – and he should know, having spent 28 years in the business.
