There are good conference speakers and not so good conference speakers. And, to be honest I don’t usually warm to speakers who start their presentations with the phrase “why talk about logistics – logistics is the least important part”
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City Link has pre-let a new 38,000 sq ft distribution hub at Welsh Industrial Partnership’s £7.5m Olympus development on the Central Business Park on Swansea Vale on a 15-year lease.
Almost a quarter (14,177) of the 56,980 commercial vehicles inspected by ATS Euromaster during February 2009 were found to have at least one tyre-related issue which required either servicing or replacement by its team of mobile technicians, the company h
The Kuehne Foundation is funding a new chair at Technische Universität Berlin to extend research in the field of international logistics networks and to strengthen the courses offered in degree and non-degree programmes.
Freight capacity provided on UK short sea freight ro-ro, lo-lo and channel tunnel services has grown by more than three million units (24 per cent) since 2000, according to the ninth annual report by Peter Baker of PRB Associates.
Unipart Logistics has appointed Sharon Thomas managing director of Unipart Consumer Logistics. She joins from Woolworths where she was director of supply chain.
Chris Sturman has been appointed chief executive of the Food Storage and Distribution Federation
The Norbert Dentressangle Group has posted a 23 per cent rise in operating profit before goodwill and impairment of goodwill to 98.2 million euros in 2008, up from 79.8 million euros the previous year.
It sounds really simply – get six things right and you too can have a top-performing supply chain. It’s only when you examine the six management principles identified by consultants McKinsey that you realise quite what a challenge you face
DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Michael Schaecher global head of air freight.
