The Freight Transport Association has welcomed government plans to abandon the narrow focus of its congestion charging policy via the Transport Innovation Fund in favour of the Urban Challenge Fund.
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Yorkshire-based brewery Black Sheep has appointed Norbert Dentressangle to handle its national warehousing and distribution.
Wincanton, along with a committee of industry partners, has produced an official set of industry guidelines on height-associated safety.
John Lewis has upped its storage capacity since rolling out a VNA handling system from Barloworld, which enables its staff to work with walk-on racking at heights of over ten metres.
Wine, spirits and beer company PLB Group has signed a logistics contract with London City Bond.
Ceva beat its cost saving target by more than 25 per cent during 2009, removing £113m (125m euros) of cost from the business.
DHL is set to invest HK$360 million (£27 million) to expand its operations into a single, multi-user facility for DHL Supply Chain to accommodate growth in Hong Kong.
Europa Worldwide Logistics is taking delivery of 50-strong fleet of new SDC trailers.
Gist has acquired temperature-controlled distribution operator G&S International, which transports goods throughout the UK, Holland and Spain.
Walmart has set itself the goal of cutting 20 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015 – one and a half times the company’s estimated global carbon footprint growth over the next five years.
