Amtrak has extended its delivery network worldwide through a strategic alliance with SkyNet Worldwide Express.

Clipper Secure Logistics has consolidated its tobacco and bonded operations at its Rotherham shared-user facility and doubled the workforce on site to 90.

Automated solutions can streamline manual handling operations and minimise repetitive high risk tasks, according to materials handling specialist Kardex.

Staff at five NHS Logistics depots launched a series of 24 hour strikes on 21 September in protest over the government’s decision to hand the business over to DHL Logistics.

Cert FMCG, part of the Cert group, has won a new contract to provide storage and distribution services for D&D Wines International. Cert FMCG will manage the warehousing and delivery of D&D’s portfolio of wines throughout the UK.

As a Sector Skills Council (1 of 25), Skills for Logistics is charged with producing a Sector Skills Agreement which, put in language we understand, is effectively a service level agreement between employers in the logistics sector and the funders/policy.

It looks like occupiers are in for a shock; a combination of factors will see rents rise in the North West. Liza Helps reports.

Bedford-based independent brewer Charles Wells has selected Gazeley’s G.Park Bedford as the location of its new national distribution hub.

Chartered surveyor Sanderson Weatherall has increased its presence in the industrial property market with the appointment of Jonathan Simpson to its office on Teesside and Andrew Carphin to its Newcastle office.

Stoke-on-Trent based Staffordshire CV has been appointed an official Renault Trucks Distributor. In addition to its repairer franchise, the company will sell the whole range of Renault vans and trucks.