The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed that the EU drivers’ hours and working-time rules will be temporarily relaxed for drivers directly affected by the Buncefield fire.
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Police are speaking to a tanker driver, over fears he may have inadvertently sparked the Buncefield fire, that devastated the Hemel Hempstead fuel depot.
Freightliner, the rail logistics specialist, has announced the addition of Doncaster to its UK network.
UPS, the $36Bn package delivery giant, has announced a new management structure in UK and Ireland.
It seems that everybody is doing it. Deutsche Post and Exel are doing it. Kuehne & Nagel and ACR Logistics are doing it. And now Logistics Manager and Supply Chain Business are doing it. What we are all doing, of course, is getting together.
Unitrans, the South African logistics group, has bought the majority of shares in Concorde, the UK technical logistics company, in a deal worth £19.95m.
Lorry drivers will be limited to a five day working week on alternate weeks from 2007, the European Union has decided. Under new drivers hours rules, drivers will have to take a 45 hour weekly rest in any two weeks.
Cranfield School of Management has launched a Supply Chain Risk Forum in response to global events such as; 9/11, the foot and mouth outbreak and hurricane Katrina, which have all impacted on organisations and global supply chains.
The GMB union in Lancashire, has announced that its members employed at the JJB Sports distribution warehouse in Martland Park, Wigan, have voted by 9 to 1 in an official ballot to take strike action in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Christian Salvesen has set itself the key target of turning around its UK transport business over the coming months.
