Close on the heels of the sale of its logistics business, TNT now plans to divest its freight management unit. By John Manners-Bell
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A real innovation in the Awards this year is the Outstanding Contribution Award. Uniquely, this doesn’t involve complex metrics, exhaustive questionnaires, or teams of consultants with clipboards.
‘The real supply chain opportunity arises when you look over your corporate boundary,’ says the newly installed president of the European Logistics Association
The finalists have now been selected for the 10th anniversary year of The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards.
Trilogy Logistics has won a new distribution contract with video game publisher Square Enix.
Small and medium-sized transport companies are not protecting themselves from bad debt and 45 per cent of those polled, have no plans for unexpected debt, according to research from Bibby Financial Services.
Freight volumes in UK ports rose two per cent to 586 million tonnes in 2005.
The UK economy could be hit by new ‘green taxes’, brought in to tackle the growing threat of climate change.
The Health and Safety Executive has withdrawn its advice booklet on the transport of paper, because it conflicts with the Departtment for Transport’s Code of Practice.
United Biscuits, owner of the McVitie’s, go-ahead and Jacob’s brands, has been sold for over £1.6bn to private equity firms, The Blackstone Group and PAI partners.
