Given today’s economic climate, adding real and, most importantly, measurable value for global customers has become even more important. A succession of high profile events, such as the global telecoms crash in 2000, has lead to greater pressure on costs
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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.
Door and window technology manufacturer GEZE UK is relocating its head office from Chelmsford, Essex, to Fradley Park, the 300-acre distribution / warehouse and office scheme being developed on the A38 near Lichfield by Evans Property Group (EPG).
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.
Kitchen and bedroom furniture distributor Waterline has expanded its operations in Newport Pagnell by taking on an extra 4,197sq m of industrial/warehouse property. The company has acquired the unit, known as Interchange Point on the Interchange Park near
Pan-European provider of Business Availability services Synstar International has beaten 12 rivals to win a £200M, seven-year contract to provide logistics services to Fujitsu, which designs and builds and operates IT systems.
Corby-based freshly squeezed fruit juice manufacturer Orchard House Foods (OHF) has turned to using temporary storage to cope with an increase in production and business expansion.
Property company Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) says that distribution “still remains the most active sector” in the Rugby and Lutterworth commercial property market and will develop further in the future.
The EC must deal with five strategic logistics issues to ensure that the expanded European market realises its full potential, says FTA president and Exel chief executive John Allan.