Northgate Vehicle Hire has reported increasing numbers of its customers are opting for their vehicle monitoring system, as a way of monitoring usage and efficiency

Food distributor DBC Foodservice is installing advanced routing and scheduling optimisation software from Paragon Software Systems

Concrete product supplier JKH Drainage, has awarded a new contract to Norbert Dentressangle for the use of its shared-user pallet network

Young’s Seafood has awarded frozen logistics firm ACS&T Logistics a new contract to provide storage, picking and distribution services

Former transport minister Sir Peter Bottomley MP is BIFA’s new president succeeding Lord Fowler

Tesco has selected 2degrees, an online community of sustainability professionals, to help it reduce its supply chain carbon footprint by 30 per cent by 2020

Frampton Transport Services’ Richard Fry has been elected chairman of the Road Haulage Association in succession to Andy Boyle

The European Parliament is to vote on rules to allow member states to charge heavy lorries for air and noise pollution

The UK government has set out plans to save £3 billion on procurement. And that is on top of the £1bn which it reckons it saved last year.

It’s been a real rollercoaster ride for third party logistics providers over the past year, with the downs and ups of the recession, mergers, acquisition, rising fuel costs, and the change in government – with
spending cuts still looming. But those that