Browsing: Logistics

Freightliner Heavy Haul has won a contract for the rail haulage of potash and salt from Boulby Mine to Tees Dock terminal and Cobra Rail freight, Middlesbrough.

Wincanton has won a contract with Volkswagen Logistics to deliver workshop equipment including tools, engines, packaging and rejected goods to seven locations from its operation in Braunschweig.

Marks and Spencer is following in the steps of TNT and Ceva and testing the Smith Newton, a zero emission, 7.5 tonne battery powered truck, designed for city centre deliveries.

TDG has completed the first run of its rail service from Purfleet to Grangemouth in Scotland, from where goods are shipped to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge.

Warehouse IT is fast becoming a complex issue. But integrating the various necessary technologies, in real time, is now critical to best performance. John Lamb