Fleet management company Maximus has launched its exclusive International fuel management system, FuelFocus, to the UK market.
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Avonmouth is readily accessibility to the national motorway network, which has been greatly improved within the past decade. The M4, M5 and M49 are within easy reach. Also, the area has a dedicated motorway junction on the M5 and the second Severn Bridge
The first indications of the performance of the European logistics industry in 2004 have been provided by a number of companies releasing their annual results. Overall the sector has experienced a good year, although there are still several underperformin
Still has bought a new fleet of Mercedes-Benz Vito compact vans for its 24/7 UK service coverage. The new vehicles are in Still’s livery, and are integral to the company’s fast callout response, helping to reduce customer downtime.
McDonald’s UK distributor Golden West Foods have put their first ever Volvos – 30 new I-Shift equipped Volvo FM12 tractor units – into service at its Basingstoke depot.
To gain the benefits of outsourcing, many firms will have either to become more adept at the process as a core competency or be willing to outsource the outsourcing process istself.
BP has selected third-party logistics provider Exel to manage the 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week consolidated distribution of frozen, chilled, and ambient goods to its 340-plus forecourt stores in the UK. Exel is creating a 15,163sq m ded
Dairy company Arla Foods UK has taken on more refrigerated trailers from Fraserburgh-based Gray & Adams. The single temperature trailers are being used to distribute a comprehensive range of chilled dairy products to Arla’s customers throughout the UK.
While car industry chiefs usually highlight labour costs and productivity as the main drivers of change, the supply chain holds the potential for some big wins
— and ones that are perhaps more immediately
realisable.
HiPP, one of the world’s largest processors of organic raw materials, has signed a three-year warehousing and distribution contract with TNT Network Logistics.The German company’s range of premium organic babyfoods and cereals will be store
