Browsing: Logistics

Rising supply chain complexity is driving a need for sophisticated warehouse management systems that can deliver improved customer service and cost reduction – visibility up and down the chain is crucial. Are your systems up to it? By John Lamb

TDG has signed 10 million euros worth of contracts with food manufacturer Boyne Valley to provide chilled warehousing and the national distribution of Boyne’s food and non-food products in Ireland, for five years.

The port dominates the UK market for importing fresh produce, with almost one million tonnes of fruit arriving at Sheerness every year.

Nissan is to supply Renault Trucks with its own brand of light duty vehicles through its specialised dealer network. Renault will sell the vehicles as a complement to the Master and Mascott ranges.

Gist is celebrating a five-year extension to its partnership with Carlsberg UK by opening and managing a new 13,470 sq m (144,937.2 sq ft) regional distribution centre in Leeds.

Voice technology has enabled food distributor, Brakes, to increase accuracy and speed of picking operations across its sixteen sites. The technology could soon be used for goods inwards, put-away, replenishment and loading. By Greg Tanner

During 2005, one out of every four trucks sold in the UK was a DAF, according to end-of-year statistics from DAF Trucks.

Money counts in the international express business – increasingly only the big networks with the big networks with the big volumes have the economies of scale to compete effectively, while domestically margins are under pressure. We look at the implicatio