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ArticleUpgrade your skills and qualifications for free
Aspire, the CILT Careers Foundation, has grants available to applicants for a range of professional qualifications offered by the CILT. As company training programmes become more specialised and places on professional development schemes are subject to intense competition, it can be difficult to get the backing from employers to fully ...
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John Lewis signs up to use new high-pressure-connected public CNG filling station for HGVs
John Lewis Partnership is the first major operator to sign up to use a public-access compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station that will open later this year.CNG Fuels has secured planning permission for the new station to be located close to junction 28 of the M6 in Lancashire.It will be ...
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City Link administration report shows how much creditors lose out
The publication of a progress report by City Link’s administrator earlier this week highlights just how much of a rough deal creditors get when a company goes into administration.Administrator Ernst & Young (EY) believes that non–preferential creditors, which include trade creditors who are collectively owed more than £30m, will only ...
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ArticlePork and fruit off-set tomato losses at Fowler Welch
Turnover decreased by 1%, while pre-tax profit was static at Fowler Welch as it off-set the full year impact of the closure of its European operating base in the Netherlands with new contract wins and organic growth.In the year-ending 31 March 2015 turnover at the Dart Group subsidiary fell to ...
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New video highlights how liquefied natural gas fuel can cut pollution from HGVs
Gasrec, supplier of liquefied natural gas for transport, has produced a video for YouTube to show how the growing use of natural gas as a transport fuel is helping reduce pollution from HGVs across the UK.The company said greater use of this low-emission fuel will help the UK meet its ...
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Whistl wins boost mail volumes
Whistl has said it has strengthened its letter collection and sorting division with a series of contract wins that have boosted its downstream access (DSA) volumes.Its biggest win comes in the form of Hotter Shoes, of which it is set to deliver 21 million items a year. It has also ...
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ArticleRising rental demand sees Ryder relocate to Swan Valley
Vehicle rental firm Ryder has relocated its Northampton operation to larger premises in the Swan Valley area.The company said the move to the brand new premises has been driven by growing demand for its truck and trailer rental, contract hire and vehicle maintenance services.The relocation comes as Ryder continues ...
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ArticleBibby Distibution goes long for customer Tayto Group
Bibby Distribution has unveiled two new longer semi-trailers featuring the livery of crisp and snack manufacturer Tayto Group.The trailers feature the Real Crisps and Mr Porky brands.Bibby Distribution said the longer semi-trailers were particularly suited to Tayto’s needs to move a low weight, high volume product and its strategy to ...
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Little money left for City Link creditors
Creditors of collapsed parcel firm City Link are likely to receive just 1p for every pound they are owed, according to the company’s administrator.In its latest progress report, administrator Ernst & Young (EY) revised down the amount that non-preferential creditors should expect to receive.When it published its proposals for the ...
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ArticleAbbey Logistics marks next step in development with first warehouse
Abbey Logistics Group has moved to the next stage of its development, opening its first warehouse operation in Bromborough, Cheshire. The company has also taken on UK Warehousing Association chairman Tony Mohan to help grow the company’s warehousing business.The Liverpool based logistics company has also hired two warehousing managers from ...
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NFT breaks ground on Port of Tilbury DC
Construction has begun on NFT’s new 230,000ft² distribution centre for food importers at the Port of Tilbury.The new dockside facility is due to open at the end of the year and will have capacity 25,000 pallets, handling a through put of 2.5 million cases per week.Dale Fiddy, sales and marketing ...
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Demand for warehousing boosts Howard Tenens turnover in 2014
Rising demand for warehouse space and a welter of contract wins helped boost Howard Tenens’ group turnover from £57.1m to £64.7m in the year to 30 September 2014. However the cost of updating the company’s transport and warehousing software depressed profits in the period.The company’s annual results for the year ...
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Extended Sunday store hours for retailers an 'evolution, not revolution' for logistics sector
Logistics firms have welcomed the proposal to extend Sunday trading hours for large retailers as a natural progression of the existing trend that has seen consumers demand more flexible deliveries.The chancellor announced in his Summer Budget last week that a consultation would be launched into enabling larger shops to open ...
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Government dashes industry's hopes for an HGV driver Trailblazer apprenticeship
The government has quashed hopes for a new HGV driving Trailblazer apprenticeship by rejecting the standards for a third time.Despite the deepening driver shortage gripping the sector and the government's refusal to back an HGV driver training fund, the skills minister turned down the industry’s bid for the much-needed apprenticeship ...
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Kuehne + Nagel selected to operate Waitrose national DC
Kuehne + Nagel has been awarded a four year contract with Waitrose to operate its new NDC in Milton Keynes.The contract begins this month and will see it manage the 950,000ft² ambient NDC, soon to open at Milton Keynes’ Magna Park.The operator has applied to the traffic commissioner for an ...
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London's mayor urged to promote cleaner HGV technology and smarter freight management
The Mayor of London has been urged to promote the use of cleaner HGV technologies and smarter freight management in a bid to slash pollution caused by diesel vehicles on the capital’s roads.A report released today (14 July) by the London Assembly Environment Committee showed that 40% of harmful NOx ...
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ArticleEntertec takes delivery of a tailor-made trailer from Schmitz Cargobull
As the festival season ramps up, Aylesbury-based audio services and event transport business Entertec has taken delivery of a tailor-made trailer from Schmitz Cargobull.The Schmitz Cargobull FP25 dry freight box van trailer will be used to transport large audio hardware across the UK and mainland Europe. It carries on its ...
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Local authorities can get free electric vehicle charging point replacements
Local authorities will be able to replace ageing public-access electric vehicle charging points free-of-charge under plans announced by Chargemaster.The offer forms part of an expansion plan for the company, which aims to boost the UK’s electric vehicle infrastructure by extending its own Polar charging point network.More than 2,000 additional charging ...
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ArticleCar production boom puts STVA UK results into overdrive
The recent rise in the new car market across Europe helped STVA UK achieve a near 10% rise in turnover and a 13% rise in pre-tax profit last year, the Bristol-based car transport specialist has reported. Turnover in the year to the end of December reached £37.6m (2013: £34.3m); while ...
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ArticleTurnover and profit up at John Hackling (Transport)
Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire storage and distribution firm John Hackling (Transport) said a near 12% rise in turnover and profit before tax in the year to the end of September was “in line with expectations”.The firm, which is a member of both Palletline and The Hazchem Network, reported an 11.9% rise ...