There has been a surge of new development in the heavy duty materials handling market of late as manufacturers boost their offering in a bid to beat the recession. Lucy Tesseras invertigates

Picking strategies are changing radically, driven by the mounting pressures caused by the explosion of e-commerce. Jessica Davies reports.

A new Logistex system for the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company increases pallet handling capacity by 33 per cent and enables the company to meet growth in the Romanian market.

It only existed in the commercial arena for two decades but already it’s hard to imagine life without the internet. Networking giant Cisco Systems has played a key role in its development, and one of its top visionaries Mawgan Wilkins talks to Jessica Da

It’s been very long slow process, but the government is coming round to the idea that there is a logic to making deliveries at nights and weekends. Malory Davies looks at proposals

Over the past few years the growth of globalisation has challenged logisticians to deal with the massive changes of moving from local to international supply chains.

Parcelforce Worldwide has invested in a fleet 1,106 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans fitted with ECO-start technology, designed to save fuel and reduce emissions.

House of Fraser in partnership with CitySprint, has launched a Wedding List delivery service designed to give couples and flexibility over when they can receive their gifts.

Fujifilm, the Japanese manufacturer of cameras and photographic processing, has outsourced its contract logistics to Kuehne + Nagel in Poland in order to consolidate the inventories of its three warehouses in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The United Kingdom Warehousing Association is working with the Carbon Trust to create an “emissions toolkit” to help warehouse operators cut carbon and save costs.