Author: Christopher Walton

Booths’ has installed two tailor-made 6.5 tonne double deck lifts supplied by Transdek UK at its Bluebell distribution centre on the outskirts of Preston

TAP Portugal has signed a four-year agreement for the supply and management of its unit load devices with CHEP Aerospace, which will be exhibiting at next week’s Logistics Link North

Total has renewed a contract with Wincanton, which will see the latter manage Total’s maintenance warehouse at Lindsey Oil Refinery in Lincolnshire for a further three years

European materials handling production value decreased by 6.8 per cent at just under €56bn in 2013, according to figures from FEM, the European Materials Handling Federation

IDI Gazeley has acquired three class-A logistics warehouses in Europe totalling 1,000,000 sq ft

Samuel Grant, which will be exhibiting at next week’s Logistics Link North, has launched the Samson Nano, a new pallet wrapper boasting the lowest turntable height of any existing pallet wrapper

Rising volumes of air and ocean freight has led DHL to introduce a freight capacity management programme

Rico Logistics has appointed Tracy Jump head of human resources. Before joining Rico, Jump worked for DHL UK for ten years where she was head of HR and subsequently promoted to HR director

Herman Jorgensen has become UK managing director of GAC, based at the company’s Grangemouth office, working alongside the company’s finance and human resources functions. He was formerly general manager at GAC Norway

Vax, the vacuum cleaner maker, has opened a 230,000 sq ft national distribution centre at Stonebridge Cross, in Droitwich Spa