Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, unveiled a £1.75 million training package that is designed to position Merseyside as a global leader in maritime and logistics training when he visited Mersey Maritime last month.
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When Skills for Logistics commissioned widespread research to find the issues of concern regarding training for the logistics sector, the two demands that kept being made were for training and qualifications to be relevant and consistent around the UK.
Dr Mick Jackson, operations director at Skills for Logistics, has been presented with a Fellowship by the Institute of Couriers for his work on Continuous
In June last year, I criticised the government for failing to deal with the growing number of foreign vehicles in a dangerous condition or in which the driver had exceeded the hours regulations.
Fork lift truck manufacturers have invested heavily in finding alternatives to internal combustion and battery power, and a lot of them are already available. Bob Hine, technical consultant to BITA, says the European Commission is now homing in on two key
Forklift truck drivers have the highest exposure to diesel engine exhaust emissions in the surface industry, equivalent to that of workers in coal mines, according to a survey by the Health & Safety Executive.
Toyota’s newest engine-powered forklift – the Tonero – has been designed to cut out harmful substances such as asbestos, cadmium and mercury, and is also lead and hexavalent chromium-free.
More than a quarter of fork lifts used in Europe and almost half in the US are powered by internal combustion engines. In the future, such significant engine use will create problems
Both short and long term exposure to particulate matter can cause respiratory and cardiovascular illness and even death. Pyroban Envirosafe has developed a diesel particulate filter system, designed to reduce particulate matter in exhaust emissions by up
l Biomass fuels – sourced from agricultural by-products such as straw, forestry by-products, residues from agro-processing of crops and energy crops that have been specifically grown as energy carriers.
