The Freight Transport Association has warned that measures to restrict lorries in a report on cycling by MPs would be economically damaging
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Epicor Software has released version 12.11 of its Epicor Prophet 21 wholesale distribution enterprise resource planning software
Fraikin has been awarded a second major contract with Sainsbury’s, which will see the company manage and maintain a further 350 of the supermarket chain’s home delivery trucks
Schuh, the footwear retailer, has awarded CollectPlus a contract to handle its parcel deliveries and returns
Hicks Logistics has joined the Fortec Distribution Network. It will now invest in a 20,000 sq ft warehouse, attached to its existing Caldicot-based 25,000 sq ft facility, in preparation for its new relationship with Fortec
Norbert Dentressangle’s freight forwarding division has opened a second office in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, less than two years after the company’s launch in Latin America
Cargo airline Cargolux made a US$35.1 million loss in 2012 – an improvement on the $57m loss budgeted by the airline for the year. Sales for the year were $1.7 billion
Potter Logistics has won a 30 year contract worth £20 million with SITA UK.The company’s managing director, Matthew Lamb, said: “This contract is unique in the energy recovery and logistics sector, and is a major coup for our business”
Ian Veitch, managing director of Yusen Logistics UK, has taken over as as president of the Freight Transport Association
New research from Barclays has shown that Britain’s online transport and logistics businesses are unprepared for the shift to a mobile world, with 88 per cent of them yet to develop their web sites to conform to mobile devices