Foreign hauliers operating on UK roads are imposing wear costs of some £195M per year, according to research gathered by the National Economic Research Association (NERA).
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The UK’s largest privately owned crane maker, Street Crane Company, has announced it is on target to export 1,500 hoist units and crane kits overseas this year.
With the opening of its superb new Bolton depot, Linde Sterling continues to set the standards for local customer care in the North-west and North Wales.
One such company benefiting from Exel’s innovative supply chain thinking is Selfridges, the leading UK department store retailer.
According to GVA Grimley the Midlands industrial / distribution market is seeing continued growth, with units of 18,600sq m plus being built. This activity is pushing another wave of speculative development.
Chris Poole has only been in his current role since the summer. Poole explains: “I was logistics director for the UK & Ireland and now I’m director of outbound logistics, which is basically distribution centres and transportation for western Europe.
Warehouse logistics company Witron has unveiled its new automated logistic system. The Ergonomic-Dynamic Picking System (E-DPS) which can pick 1,000 order lines per module, per hour.
CHEP, which offers pallet and container pooling services, has implemented RedPrairie’s RFID-enabled DLx Warehouse in its Orlando, Florida Innovation Center.
The Marco Polo scheme supports commercial initiatives that stimulate the competitiveness of combined transport, and promote companies to look beyond exclusively road transport.
The property market that serves the UK logistics sector is based primarily on the concept of developers building properties that they think will meet the needs of an occupier and then a business coming along and leasing that space.
