The Department for Transport is investigating the cost of rail rolling stock leases. It is concerned that there is a lack of effective competition within the market and lack of transparency as to how leasing charges are applied.
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Ryder is celebrating 35 years operating in the UK market.
Kardex has produced the latest generation of its flexible automated storage and retrieval system.
There can be few things that say more about the state of the logistics market than the nature and scope of the contracts being signed.
The launch of Gillette’s Fusion razor last month presented a huge logistics challenge. Making it run smoothly was down to Maurice Lee.
Catesby Property Group has recently acquired a five-acre site alongside the M6 and close to the centre of Birmingham on which it plans a £8 million distribution scheme. A detailed planning application for two 50,000 sq ft buildings has been submitted.
Homebase has bought six 13.6m step frame tri-axle box van lifting deck trailers and six 13.7m ratchet deck curtainsiders from Don-Bur.
BA World Cargo has unveiled a new £15m premium handling facility at London Heathrow. The new transit shed, called Premia, is expected to begin full operations this month.
Skills for Logistics has appointed Paul Fox, managing director of Fox Group, to its board of directors.
A further 27 acres of the former Denby Hall Colliery site in Derbyshire is to be developed for warehousing.