Palletways London, which was created to provide a hub facility for depots in the capital and the South East, is expanding its operations on the back of significant growth in the business.
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Top football clubs Liverpool and Arsenal have both chosen Prologic’s CIMS to help manage their increasing merchandising operations.
Professor Alan McKinnon, director of Logistics Research at Heriot –Watt University, said that at any given time, there is £460m worth of freight in transit on UK roads.
Argos Direct, the home shopping arm of the high street retailer, has selected Paragon’s Multi Depot routeing and scheduling software as part of a drive to improve its transport planning capability.
Iveco has launched a new version of its Daily van. The Daily is aimed at transport professionals and, like a truck, is built on a steel chassis enabling it to come in some 3,000 different configurations from vans to chassis-cabs and mini-buses.
Hutchison Ports (HPUK) has signed a new contract with LDH (La Doria), extending the current contract until at least the end of February 2009.
Evergreen Marine Corp, Hapag-Lloyd Container Line and Wan Hai Lines are to launch a new weekly service linking India with Hong Kong, Shekou and Kaohsiung at the end of April.
Thinking on a global scale is becoming more and more important for companies, with an increasing amount of manufacturing coming out of China. But the challenge is for companies to retain a high level of visibility over extended supply chains.
Symbol Technologies and Peak Technologies, have both been chosen by Virgin Atlantic Airways, to supply RFID technology to track critical aeroplane components, moving through its supply chain from its Heathrow base.
Ryder had a significant annual temporary agency labour spend. More than 200 agencies were supplying the company with staff throughout the UK resulting in numerous agency invoices and timesheets being processed at considerable cost.