Rail freight traffic through the Daventry railport on the 365-acres DIRFT Logistics Park is reaching new records, providing encouraging news for the park’s developer, Seven Trent Property, who has been given the Government go-ahead for a major expansion
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European Conveyor Systems (ECS) has installed a high-efficiency automated conveyor at the Merseyside factory of Johnson Controls, which makes interior components for Jaguar cars.
Yearsley Cold Storage and Distribution has started building its new depot in the North-east. Located at Seaham in County Durham, the depot will enhance the company’s national distribution network as well as form part of its strategy to build cold stores i
Some of the UK’s largest non-food retail transport fleets are running at barely 50% of weight capacity and return legs average 21% use. Improvements in efficiency could save the retail supply chain millions of pounds a year, according to Rick Ballard of s
Jungheinrich is celebrating its golden jubilee with four new forklift products and a hand pallet truck.
The past six months has seen little, if no, change within the West of Scotland distribution and industrial property market. Few requirements have come to the market and those that have are from retail distribution companies looking for economic space on e
Transport operators dealing with perishable goods must adopt more disciplined loss prevention strategies, says David Heather, perishable trade expert and consultant to the TT Club.
How things can change from one of optimism to one of pessimism and uncertainty in such a short space of time.
British Gypsum is using rail freight operator GB Railfreight to move desulphogypsum (DSG) to its plant at Robertsbridge, East Sussex, from the Drax coal-fired power station at Selby.
the collector station at the head of the ‘A’ frame. The ‘A’ frames have 3,950 ejectors in total which can each fire stock onto the conveyor belt at the rate of five singles per second.