Marks and Spencer is following in the steps of TNT and Ceva and testing the Smith Newton, a zero emission, 7.5 tonne battery powered truck, designed for city centre deliveries.
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TDG has completed the first run of its rail service from Purfleet to Grangemouth in Scotland, from where goods are shipped to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge.
Trilogy Logistics has won a contract with children’s entertainment producers and rights-owner Hit Entertainment.
Tesco has bought 15 electric vans from Modec for its online food delivery service.
Plumbing supplier Wolseley has taken delivery of more than 50 Luton-bodied Mercedes Benz Sprinter 311CDI chassis cabs.
The reshaping of the European Union will affect distribution in some profound ways. Romania, regarded by many as a wild frontier, could soon become a significant transit hub.
Aligning the value propositions in your supply chain gives you that special market identity that keeps customers coming back for more, says Veronica Martinez
Director of Global Supply Chain Management, Vodafone
What are the key challenges facing the logistics sector in 2007? Claude Boisselet examines five of this year’s major preoccupations.
Western manufacturers now need to know more about managing networks than they do about making things. Outsourcing manufacturing to distant low cost economies may cut unit costs but increased complexity and risk are creating new challenges for the supply
