The Carphone Warehouse, which handles large volumes of phones and accessories, has solved its security and traceability concerns within its supply chain by switching to plastic totes for the picking and delivery of orders to stores. The company previously
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Crawford Amber has introduced a new sensor system which has been designed specifically to help lorries reverse safely towards loading bays. Called hafaEYE, the system comprises a sensor mounted beneath the dock leveller which is interlocked to an automati
Rotex Europe has moved to a new, purpose-built site on the Whitehouse Vale Industrial Estate, off the M56 near Warrington. The company, which supplies screening, feeding and conveyor equipment, needed an extended warehousing area and an improved
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the logistics and distribution sectors “are struggling with the burden of in-house IT management”, says a survey commissioned by JBS Computer Services. As a result, says the survey, the SMEs are being distract
Globalisation and the opening of the single European market have stimulated a massive growth in international freight transport. However, it is apparent that Europe’s transport system has failed to keep pace with this growth. Presently, Europe’s transport
A state-of-the-art plastic pallet has been added to Teacrate Food’s range of returnable transit packaging (RTP) equipment and which is available through the company’s crate rental and management system.
Logistics provider Tibbett & Britten (T&B) has extended its long-term relationship with Tesco by winning a long-term, multimillion contract to provide central warehousing and distribution services for all of the supermarket chain’s boxed clothing in the U
The need for traditional, costly distribution hubs could be eliminated by using an advanced new logistics strategy, claims Walsh Western International (WWI). The third-party logistics provider has just launched Dynamic In-Transit Merge (DITM) to cut costs
A new fleet of Jungheinrich counterbalanced forklifts, reach trucks and pallet transporters is playing a key role in the manufacture and on-time despatch of breakfast cereals from Dailycer’s manufacturing plant in Deeside.
Although the additional rental information being sought is intended to lead to greater accuracy in the initial Rateable Value assessment, it is likely that because of the volume of properties covered – as with previous Revaluations – thousands of these va
