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DPD's fifth UK hub to go live in 2020
DPD has been given the go ahead to build its fifth UK hub, which it expects to go live in October 2020.The new £150m site will be built just two miles from DPD’s Hub 4 and International Gateway site in Hinckley.The 276,000ft² hub building will be 503m in length, and ...
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Palletforce and NFT Distribution owner EmergeVest buys CM Downton in £75m deal
Palletforce and NFT Distribution owner EmergeVest has bought CM Downton for £75m. The deal sees EmergeVest acquire the entire shareholding from the Downton family.The Downton family will, however, continue to serve in their respective roles as senior management of the company.EmergeVest has been acquiring companies in the UK logistics sector ...
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ArticleSuttons Tankers buys chemical waste and fuel haulier Bullard
Suttons Tankers has acquired the trade of Bullard, a UK transport company specialising in the chemical waste and fuels sector.The deal sees the equipment, drivers and company’s customers, being managed by Suttons with the company’s founder Simon Bullard remaining in a key account management role.The company based in Dinnington near ...
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TPN opens new regional hub in Northampton
The Pallet Network (TPN) has opened a new regional hub in Northampton this week.The new hub, which is located at Brackmills Industrial Estate in Northampton, has the capacity to handle 8,000 pallets a night.It offers 164,000ft² of internal operational space and is secured with CCTV, sprinklers and ANPR access control.The ...
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ArticleCulina Group member Morgan McLernon appoints new commercial director
Culina Group business Morgan McLernon has appointed Shane Kilpatrick as its new commercial director. Kilpatrick joined the Ireland-based business from DFDS Logistics, where he he was sales director for two and a half years, and has also worked at the Mongomery Transport Group.Kilpatrick said that while the challenges the industry ...
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RHA and FTA urge TfL to delay London Low Emission Zone Euro-6 requirement
The RHA and FTA have urged TfL to push back its proposed October 2020 start date for requiring Euro-6 lorries across the whole of Greater London.A consultation into plans to strengthen the existing London Low Emission Zone to Euro-6 level closed last week (28 February). This would see Euro-4 and ...
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ArticleDelsol doubles warehouse capacity as customer demand grows
TPN member Delsol has doubled its warehousing capacity and is preparing to take on new staff in response to growing demand for its warehousing, fulfilment and pick-and-pack services.Delsol, which has a fleet of 90 trucks and vans, uses the 80,000ft² warehouse in Sandycroft, Flintshire to store and transport raw materials ...
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RHA slams Sadiq Khan's London transport plan for its 'fundamental ignorance' about freight
Sadiq Khan’s transport plan for London “totally fails” to consider freight operators and their customers and shows a “fundamental ignorance” of how logistics and supply chains work, the RHA has said.The criticisms are made in the association's response to the mayor’s new London Plan, which sets out the capital’s strategic ...
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Culina Group and Warrens Group enter into joint-venture partnership
Culina Group has entered into a partnership with baked goods warehousing and logistics provider Warrens Group.This deal follows Culina's joint venture with refrigerated transport firm Morgan McLernon and its purchase of the remaining shares in logistics specialist CML Fulfillment last year.In February 2016 it purchased Great Bear Distribution.Announcing the ...
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Wincanton thinks it has e-fufilment Sorted with new partnership
Wincanton is set to offer its customers a wider choice of delivery options after forging a partnership with technology provider Sorted.The partnership will see Wincanton integrate its e-fulfillment service with Sorted’s carrier management platform SortedPRO, which brings together warehouse management systems.The Software as a Service (SaaS) product will allow Wincanton ...
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UKWA striving to promote workplace diversity
In a recent interview with Alex Farkas of the National Employer & Partnership Team at the Department of Work & Pensions, UKWA CEO Peter Ward outlined how the association is driving discussion around diversity and inclusion within the logistics industry.“As the leading trade association for the sector, UKWA is working ...
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UKWA survey designed to set benchmarks for warehousing performance
The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has launched a benchmarking survey aimed at establishing best practice guidelines in the logistics industry.The UKWA’s aim is to create key measurements for the sector’s overall performance against which 3PLs can assess themselves, enabling them to create goals for improvement within their business.The study has ...
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ArticleDHL Supply Chain refutes union claim it put drivers at risk
DHL Supply Chain has hit back at union accusations that it sent drivers out last week in conditions that put their safety at risk.The company’s depot in Westfield, Cumbernauld, was accused by Unite Scotland of sending drivers out despite police and Government travel warnings.A spokesperson for DHL said: “The events ...
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ArticleOperators left counting the cost as they battle on through the snow
Bread is delivered in snowy conditions to Sainsbury's in Larbert, near Falkirk,The road transport industry battled on against the ‘beast from the east’ and Storm Emma this week, but many operators have been left counting the cost. In Scotland, Glasgow-based Bullet Express had to close after rural and access roads ...
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West of Scotland Heavy Haulage under police investigation
The administrator for West of Scotland Heavy Haulage has confirmed that the company is currently being investigated by Police Scotland.The Cumbernauld business entered administration in October 2017 after the police withdrew its escort service, preventing the wind turbine transport firm from completing its contracts.It quickly experienced cash flow difficulties and ...
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ArticleHGV drivers stuck on M80 'should be applauded, not pilloried', says RHA
The scene on the M80 Haggs in Glasgow, as the highest level of weather warning has been issued for ScotlandThe RHA has slammed Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s criticism of HGVs for using trunk roads in heavy snow as “naïve in the extreme”.Sturgeon’s remarks came after several lorries and cars ...
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ArticleWhat is blockchain anyway?
Image: WhiteHat SecuritySo what is this blockchain and do I need to worry about it? According to the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC), the not-for-profit innovation hub in Milton Keynes, blockchain “is the distributed ledger technology (DLT) behind Bitcoin [with] the potential to revolutionise many areas of the digital world, including ...
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ArticleSchmitz Cargobull lends its expertise to Transaid
Transaid royal patron HRH The Princess Royal thanked the transport industry for providing its expertise to help develop new forms of transport suitable for use in Africa at a lunch held yesterday in London to mark the 125th anniversary of trailer builder Schmitz Cargobull.“Without corporate members it would be more ...
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ArticleSeven trade associations call on government to mitigate clean air zone impact or see hauliers go bust
Seven trade associations, including the FTA and BVRLA, have joined forces in a letter to government warning of the financial impact that clean air zones (CAZs) could have on HGV operators and local businesses.They warn that blanket charging zones, if applied without careful consideration, would add to the cost of ...
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Tesco merger with Booker wins support of shareholders; combined business to start next week
Tesco’s £3.7bn merger with wholesaler Booker has won approval from shareholders.Following support from the supermarket group’s investors, Tesco confirmed in a statement that Booker’s shareholders had now also backed the deal.The combined business is expected to start operating on 5 March 2018.Dave Lewis, group chief executive at Tesco, said: “I’m ...