Retailers are being invited to take part in trials of a noise mitigation scheme that would allow lorries to make urban deliveries at night and weekends when they are normally banned.

Trials are underway of a system for delivering ash from power stations by ship which could take up to 40 lorries off the road for each journey.

Supply Chain Standard is hosting a live web TV debate in association with Oracle to look at the challenges of achieving visibility in complex global supply chains and the role technology has to play

Butcher’s Pet Care has pre-let a 260,000 sq ft headquarters, manufacturing and distribution facility on a design and build basis at developer Gazeley’s 95-acre G.Park Crick scheme in the Midlands.

Redirack fitted a racking and mezzanine storage system for Viscount Catering, the Sheffield-based factory of Enodis UK Food Service. In total, 4,000 pallet spaces were created at the site, which has a 25,000 sq ft warehouse and a 75,000 sq ft manufacturin

Four Soft has joined forces with six logistics companies to form the Freight Forwarding Industry & Four Soft Alliance (FFIFA), a global alliance designed to drive efficiencies in logistics software.

APC Overnight has purchased the first Eco Urban trailer designed by Yorkshire-based W Trailer Co.

Nexen Lift Trucks has appointed Action Forklifts to cover sales and servicing in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire.

Shears Bros Transport has expanded by taking a newly refurbished 54,350 sq ft high bay warehouse on Aviation Business Park at Bournemouth Airport.

Stobart Group and AW Jenkinson Forest Products have ordered 1,000 Scania trucks as part of a joint-procurement agreement.