Browsing: Logistics

The workhorse of logistics operations across Europe is the humble and all too often unloved lorry. The past few years have seen all sorts of positive discrimination ideas to encourage the use of alternative modes of transport but at the end of the

Mercedes-Benz has secured a five-year lease at £4.50 per sq ft on Yorkstream Properties’ 105,000 sq ft MK1 warehouse on Denbigh Road, Bletchley, Milton Keynes.

Parcel delivery company City Link has taken a 10 year sub-lease on a 42,125 sq ft warehouse at Silverstone Drive, Gallagher Business Park in Coventry

Bedfords Transport has taken delivery of two Iveco Stralis Active Space Super tractor units, with a further nine set to enter operation on 1st September 2008.

GreenChem is now producing AdBlue from a plant in Irlam, Manchester, tripling its UK output by potentially creating 30 – 40 million litres of the urea-based fuel a year.

Royal Dutch Shell has extended its collaboration with biotechnology company Iogen Energy Corporation in order to speed up the development of a second generation biofuel made from cellulosic ethanol.

BASDA members have launched the Logistics and Supply Chain Special Interest Group in a bid to increase the number of collaborative working practices and systems across the industry.