Opus Land has started on site with the extension of the 300,000 sq ft former Littlewoods Distribution Centre at Centrum 100 Business Park in Staffordshire.

The British Council of Shopping Centres is gathering information on freight consolidation centres and off-site storage centres for a report into the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating them within the retail logistics process.

EMPATHY Net-Works is a project part-funded by the European Social Fund and Hull University Business School, to help encourage women into the logistics and supply chain industries.

Barloworld has six accredited training centres across the UK, employs 32 mobile instructors and trains around 6,000 operators each year.

The shocking revelation that hundreds of thousands of people working in the logistics sector have no qualifications highlights the fact that vocational training is needed more than ever before. Jessica Davies reports.

Train to Gain is the government’s funding scheme which aims to provide financial support to employers committed to the development of their staff.

The Fork Lift Truck Association has developed a forklift truck engineer apprenticeship for 16 to 19 year olds.

Grocery retailer Aldi has chosen Liquid Management Solutions’ RFID based fuel monitoring system to refuel its Tamworth RDC fleet.

Toshiba Europe, which handles the customer-specific configuration of every laptop destined for the EMEA region, has implemented an RFID system at its plant in Regensburg, Germany.

There was a time when a RFID tag would have been thought to have had supernatural powers although until now they have been all too fallible in the supply chain. Development of the technology means that, at last, we stand on the brink of large scale applic