The Fork Lift Truck Association has opened up the nominations for its awards for excellence 2015. The FLTA has awards available in seven different categories
Author: Christopher Walton
Christopher Walton
Chris succeeded the legendary Malory Davies in September 2019 as Editor of Logistics Manager and host of the Supply Chain Excellence Awards. Day-to-day Chris writes about all things supply chain; materials handling and industrial property and is curator of the annual LM Top 50 Service Providers. He has worked as a business journalist since 2002 and his career as a logistics journalist started in 2008. Before joining Logistics Manager, he was Editor-in-Chief for road transport titles at DVV Media International.
Hubtex has launched a compact 4000kg reach truck, the SQ 40. It has a lift capacity of 4000kg at 600mm load centre that accommodates heavier loads than conventional reach trucks but with the same working aisle widths
DP World London Gateway has looking for 50 new members of staff at its South Essex deep-sea container hub port.
Harlequin Logistics has signed a long-term distribution contract with Kimberly Clark
Ceva has seen new business wins rise by 31 per cent in the second quarter, increasing to $763 million, compared to $582m for the same period in 2013
Retailers and 3PLs have had to delay scheduled moves into big shed warehouses due to a shortage of good properties. The UK big shed market has paused in the three months up to June according to data from a Gerald Eve survey
DHL Supply Chain’s operating profit rose almost 40 per cent in the second quarter to €109m, while sales were up 2.3 per cent to €3.6bn
Boughey Distribution, the Food division of NWF, produced an operating profit of £2 m in the year to 31st May – up from £1.2m last year
Argos has ordered 19 lifting deck longer semi trailers from Don-Bur. These trailers will posses the largest internal cubic volume seen on British roads
DHL has broken ground on its 15,000sqm custom-built Tokyo gateway. The gateway is set to be the company’s fourth facility in Japan and will also be DHL’s largest gateway globally
