Change in the retail landscape is moving the goalposts for urban deliveries. Balancing the demands of high street and home deliveries is creating new challenges – and then there is the drive to be greener and cleaner. Malory Davies reports
Browsing: Healthcare and Pharma
UPS has launched a shipment monitoring and risk management service for high value shipments that are time and temperature sensitive
Freight forwarder FedEx Trade Networks has opened its first office in the Republic of Ireland. The office is the 24th in Europe
Norbert Dentressangle has gained a Wholesalers Licence from the Medicines & Healthcare Regulatory Authority, as part of its plan to extend and upgrade its COMAH Euroterminal warehouse in Trafford Park, Manchester
Wincanton moved back into profit last year, reporting a pre-tax profit of £20.4m against a loss of £47.4m the year before. “We were especially delighted to support the London 2012 Games,” said CEO Eric Born
DHL Global Forwarding has launched DHL Thermonet, a new air freight product tailored to the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector, hoping to offer customers a transparent and regulatory compliant platform to manage their temperature-sensitive shipments
Kerry Logistics has opened three new logistics centres with a total area of 140,000 sq m in China
DHL Supply Chain has developed a new 14 tonner series hybrid truck, as part of its GoGreen Programme, which has a target of improving its mother company Deutsche Post DHL’s overall CO2 emissions by 30 per cent by 2020.
Schoeller Allibert has launched Eureka double-base, a new lightweight stacking container, which aims to offer threefold benefits for automated handling applications
UPS has announced it will acquire Hungary-based pharmaceutical logistics company Cemelog in order to strengthen its healthcare business in Europe, as part of a global growth and investment strategy
