This seems like a win-win situation. Certainly in the US, retailers have been moving their distribution centres close to ports for some time.
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John Menzies plc subsidiary Menzies Distribution, which distributes magazines and newspapers daily to 21,500 customers daily, is taking a new distribution centre in York.
Darlington-based Agility Systems has formed a strategic alliance partnership with Eastern Data Group, one of the UK and Ireland’s top suppliers of mobile solutions for home and direct store delivery of FMCG product.
Former Culina Logistics group chief executive Thomas van Mourik has joined food, beverage and grocery logistics specialist Baylis Distribution managing director.
Asda is creating 300 jobs at its new £20M import centre with PD Teesport, part of PD Ports. The new facility, being built near Middlesborough, will save Asda an estimated two million road miles a year by shipping 70% of its distribution direct to Teesport
We must work harder to attract new blood into logistics – make it appear to the young as the attractive, interesting, important profession that it is.
Eden Park Developments, part of the Fiducia Group, has received planning permission to create a £30M industrial and distribution park and business complex at Grange Park in Northampton in a joint venture with Shepherd Developments.
LXE has introduced the HX1, a rugged, wearable, speech recognition computer. The HX1’s open systems hardware and software architecture are designed to support open system,
Globe Air Cargo has won a contract to become Ethiopian Airlines’ cargo general sales agent in the UK, giving freight forwarders access to the largest pan-African network of any airline.
Specialist brick forks, a speed controller and on-board weighing system are just three features of the new Builders’ Merchants Special by Toyota Industrial Equipment.
