The first of Volvo’s new generation FH16-580 has gone into service in the UK.
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Bibby Distribution has won a five and a half year warehousing and distribution contract with Parlane International, an importer of modern home accessories.
SW Group Logistics is in the final stage of rebranding from SW Transport (Swindon).
The GMB union has cancelled a planned strike at JJB Sports’ Martland distribution centre on Tuesday 21st November and is recommending that its members accept a revised pay offer.
Many large vans will need speed limiters from the new year to stop them exceeding 56mph.
Companies that currently use the railways to move goods say they will switch to the roads if rail cannot compete on price.
French group Geodis has bought TNT’s freight forwarding business in a deal that values the business at £310 million.
UPS predicts that the number of goods it handles will surge from some 15 million packages a day to more than 21 million on Wednesday 20 December, its busiest day of the year.
WFS (Spa), a division of Worldwide Flight Services, has won a contract with Nippon Cargo Airlines to receive and handle goods at Heathrow, bound for Japan via Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
The PWC Logistics group, which includes; GeoLogistics, TransOceanic, and Trans-Link, is rebranding as Agility.
