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Benchmarking for freight industry launched

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The Department for Transport, in conjunction with Faber Maunsell, has launched a free online benchmarking programme designed to improve operational efficiency within the freight industry in England.

Resilience is the key

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All across Europe, banks are writing off billions of euros as the credit crunch takes its toll. Deutsche Bank’s last figures show that pre-tax profit for the quarter April-June at 642m euros was down from 2.7 billion euros the year before

BA remains bullish despite rising fuel costs

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British Airways World Cargo has posted a 22 per cent increase in commercial revenue to £178 million for the first quarter of its financial year; however its fuel bill for the same period was 51.2 per cent more than the previous year.

MoD renews Freightex contract

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The Ministry of Defence has renewed its contract with freight exchange service Freightex to use its software to optimise its road freight.

City Link picks Trafford Park

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City Link has taken Glasgow City Council Pension Fund’s 37,933 sq ft warehouse at Ashburton Point in Trafford Park at an annual rental of £204,838 and GLP Properties’ 40,599 sq ft unit at Roman Way in Preston on a ten year lease at £4.25 per sq ft. Savill

Great expectations

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With growth in the UK econom slowing down, companies are go ing to expect more from their supply chain managers. Jessica Davies reports on the changing demands on logisticians.

Behind the Shed

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Here at Logistics Manager we were delighted to sponsor a yacht at the Kuehne + Nagel Cup in the Solent in June, especially as we won the regatta with our head of sponsorship Rhiannon Spurgeon at the helm.

Ceva integrates operations

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The fact that the government has finally bowed to public pressure and scrapped increases in fuel duty planned for October has been widely welcomed by the industry -and only a few cynics have pointed out that it chose the run-up to a sensitive by-election