The flexibility provided by the Working Time Directive’s “Periods of Availability” is key to the way that many companies have organised their lorry operations,
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The chief executive of Britain’s largest rail freight operator EWS, has said that the company would have to seek fresh capital, possibly through stock market flotation, to finance ambitious development plans.
In-cab technology has moved along consistently with hauliers having more and more choice over how they keep track of their fleet and what goes into their cabs; touch-screen computers, GPS, GPRS and Mobile Network Terminals.
Exel, has extended its existing contract with Verlagsunion, one of the largest magazine distributors in Germany.
First half pre-tax profit at Business Post fell to £3m from £8.6m last year as a result of difficult economic conditions. Sales were up 21 per cent to £133m.
Toy maker Lego is centralising its European distribution centre in Prague and outsourcing its European operation to DHL. DHL will open and begin operations of its new customised logistics centre in early 2006.
P&O, the UK’s largest ports and ferries operator has received an approach from Dubai Ports World that could value the company at £3bn.
Pallet supplier Brambles says sales and profits are “well ahead of the comparative period in the prior year”. In Chep Europe, the company has experienced sales growth of around five per cent for the three months to September.
Mitsubishi is changing the way it does business in the UK involving a radical switch from a distributor-based operation to one that puts dealers in direct communication with the parent company’s European base at Almere in the Netherlands.
Retail group Nisa-Today’s has signed a five year contract with Bibby Distribution extending the relationship between to two companies to 25 years.
