A 50% increase in storage space has resulted from street furniture supplier Furnitubes’ investment in a Translift Engineering articulating Bendi forklift truck at its newly-leased warehouse than was feasible at its last Sittingbourne premi

The Isle of Man Airport has been supplied with an extension to its existing conveyor system by Caljan Rite-Hite, a leading manufacturer of advanced material handling systems for loading and unloading cargo, for checking luggage. It is now

Easy and reliable access to materials handling equipment on a short-term hire basis is an essential element in the supply chain process for every kind of modern business – large or small – as it is a certainty that the requirement will arise in

The five Rs of marketing are described as “having the right products, in the right place at the right time in the right quantity and at the right price”. Recently a large public company was in the spotlight for doing exactly the opposite – headlines in

G-Log-, a leading provider of global logistics and transport software, has launched version 4.5 of its Global Command and Control CenterT (GC3T) software. Having collaborated with customers to evaluate which areas of new functionality would add the grea

Paragon Foods is using compact live storage at its new site at Doncaster to keep control of costs in the frozen and chilled facility while accommodating future growth. Supplied by BITO Storage Systems, the new system provides compact live

If a Royal Navy submarine requires a spare part or munitions, the equipment must be supplied without fail and, most importantly, on time. And it is the job of FSL Logistics to ensure that whatever the armed forces need, they get it when they want it, and

In the first of a planned series of strategic alliances with specialist partners designed to create new and imaginative solutions to customer supply chain problems, Amethyst Group has joined forces with AON Network Services to cut dramatical

The rate of logistics outsourcing across EU continues to increase and, according to Datamonitor, total spend on outsourced logistics will reach euro175.5Bn by 2008 to account for 45% share of total logistics spend. Cost reduction, high-speed

EGSAC – the consortium of independent GSSA companies – has appointed Ton Smulders as vice president. He replaces Don Champion of UK-based Wexco Airfreight, who has served in this post since EGSAC’s launch in early 2002. Smulders is managing Directo