Warehouse efficiency and safety depend on having a floor that meets the necessary flatness requirements. We look at some of the issues involved.

The government is now formulating its plans for future port development following a consultation period. But, asks Malory Davies, will it bottle the big challenges?

A portable stock inventory system, the StockMarshal, has been designed to improve the efficiency of mobile logistics operations.

TDG has upgraded its warehouse management system to an AIX Marc, which it is running on an IBM ISeries I570 Processor, at its Pocklington site in Yorkshire.

Iveco is offering operators a free guide to the new legislation surrounding Euro 4/5 and digital tachographs on CD-ROM, produced in association with Siemens VDO and AdBlue producer Yara Industrial.

Wincanton, has won a contract to operate a northern distribution centre for Sainsbury’s convenience stores.

P&O Ferrymasters has made a €3 million investment in 500 new 45 ft high cube rail containers

British Airways Regional Cargo is using a web-based vehicle tracking service to record the minute by minute movement of air cargo

Manhattan Associates has increased its labour management market share to 38.7 per cent,

Budgens, part of the Musgrave Budgens Londis Group, is using the company’s 50 Volvo FM tractor units to recruit new drivers