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A little care and attention is sometimes all it takes to increase the life expectancy of a forklift truck and save unnecessary spending. Lucy Tesseras looks at the role a regular maintenance regime can play

Diesel engines might be getting cleaner and greener, but increasingly the technology is being challenged by the new generation of batteries, fuel cells and hydrogen hybrids. Malory Davies reports

Employees at the Norwich and Ipswich depots of City Link have raised £1,450 for children with life-threatening illnesses after braving the skies in a 10,000ft skydive.

It only existed in the commercial arena for two decades but already it’s hard to imagine life without the internet. Networking giant Cisco Systems has played a key role in its development, and one of its top visionaries Mawgan Wilkins talks to Jessica Da

Picking strategies are changing radically, driven by the mounting pressures caused by the explosion of e-commerce. Jessica Davies reports.

There has been a surge of new development in the heavy duty materials handling market of late as manufacturers boost their offering in a bid to beat the recession. Lucy Tesseras invertigates

The big retailers are waking up to the challenge of more environmentally friendly packaging and that it is beginning to have an impact right across the supply chain. Malory Davies reports on the trends.

With three million sq ft let or under offer the question is are there enough sheds? Liza Helps investigates

Time is running out for occupiers to get a good deal north of the M25, says Lucy Tesseras

Business secretary Lord Mandelson has unveiled ambitious plans to make the West Midlands a leader in low carbon technologies which will have significant supply chain implications.