Skills for Logistics has appointed John Lister to its board of directors. Lister has over 25 years experience working in the courier sector and currently is the owner and managing director of London-based Reuter Brooks Couriers.
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Price deflation, globalisation, rising costs, increasing competition from online operations and supermarkets, and ever-more demanding consumers: it all adds up to an extremely tough trading environment for fashion retailers – but Europe offers significant
British Airways Regional Cargo is using a sophisticated web based vehicle tracking service to record the minute by minute movement of air cargo.
Eddie Stobart has launched a dedicated rail freight service for Tesco, moving goods from Daventry to Tesco’s distribution centre at Livingston in Scotland.
Iveco is offering operators a free guide to the new legislation surrounding Euro 4/5 and digital tachographs on CD-ROM, produced in association with Siemens VDO and AdBlue producer Yara Industrial.
Stoke-on-Trent based Staffordshire CV has been appointed an official Renault Trucks Distributor. In addition to its repairer franchise, the company will sell the whole range of Renault vans and trucks.
Kent transport company Alan Firmin has joined the Palletforce network. Operations manager Paul Denyer said: “Joining a distribution network allows us to become a one-stop shop.”
TDG has upgraded its warehouse management system to an AIX Marc, which it is running on an IBM ISeries I570 Processor, at its Pocklington site in Yorkshire.
As a Sector Skills Council (1 of 25), Skills for Logistics is charged with producing a Sector Skills Agreement which, put in language we understand, is effectively a service level agreement between employers in the logistics sector and the funders/policy.
Lafarge Cement has renewed its £22m distribution contract with Turners. The new three-year contract was signed after an 18 month tender and has an option to renew for a further three years.
