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    CILT launches new corporate look

    2013-10-30T17:29:00Z

    The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) has unveiled a new corporate identity to provide worldwide recognition for its 33,000 members. The new branding incorporates eight arrows to depict the eight different sectors the CILT represents (supply chain, transport planning, rail, active travel and travel planning, bus and coach, ...

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    Palletline completes its team with new operations director

    2013-10-30T17:20:00Z

    Palletline has completed its new-look management team with the appointment of an operations director.Iain Brown has joined the network as it targets a new period of growth with the introduction of new services such as direct trunking.Brown, who was with CM Downton, spent eight years with the Canute Group with ...

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    Union calls off Royal Mail strike

    2013-10-30T17:09:00Z

    The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has called off the 24-hour Royal Mail and Parcelforce strike planned for Monday (4 November).In a joint statement, the CWU and the operator said they have “made progress in talks” and have committed to coming to an agreement by 13 November.However, the validity of the ...

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    Yodel invests in additional sites to handle peak volumes

    2013-10-30T17:09:00Z

    Yodel has unveiled plans to open 13 additional sites in the run-up to Christmas as part of its winter delivery plans.A spokesman for the carrier was unable to disclose the locations of the planned seven satellite sites, five standalone service centres and returns centre in the Midlands, but said they ...

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    CitySprint completes third acquisition since September

    2013-10-30T17:06:00Z

    CitySprint is continuing its acquisition spree with the take-over of Southampton-based courier firm Dash-It, its third deal since the beginning of September.Dash-It currently offers services such as storage, chilled and frozen goods distribution and hazchem transport, as well as express delivery. A spokeswoman for CitySprint was unavailable to confirm the ...

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    Get your MT despite strike threat

    2013-10-30T15:58:00Z

    Due to the threat of industrial action by Royal Mail staff, readers may experience a delay in receiving the 4 November issue of Motor Transport.To make sure you continue to keep up to date with all the key news in road transport, we have created a digital edition of that ...

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    Royal Mail in daily talks with union ahead of strike

    2013-10-30T14:04:00Z

    The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has scheduled talks with Royal Mail every day this week to try to reach an agreement ahead of planned strike action next week (4 November).The talks come in addition to three days of negotiations last week and follow the CWU issuing the operator with a ...

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    Comic Relief supports Transaid with £1m

    2013-10-30T14:04:00Z

    Comic Relief - which this year raised over £100m from its flagship event Red Nose Day - is backing Transaid with £1m of support over the next five years.The tie up was announced last night at a reception at Buckingham Palace in the presence of Transaid patron HRH The ...

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    Scheduled Post Test

    2013-10-30T13:05:00Z

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    Panther Warehousing acquires Hi-Way Express Home Delivery

    2013-10-29T15:05:00Z

    Panther Warehousing has acquired West Yorkshire-based two-man delivery company Hi-Way Express Home Delivery for an undisclosed sum.The business, which is part of the Crick-based Panther group, has acquired Hi-Way Express and its 200,000ft² warehouse in Castleford from domestic appliance company Pacifica Group.Hi-Way has no vehicles or drivers and subcontracts all ...

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    Potter Group feels benefit of House of James acquisition

    2013-10-29T12:07:00Z

    The acquisition of House of James by Potter Logistics last year has helped contribute to a 52% growth in turnover for the York-based firm.For the year-ending 30 April 2013 it posted a turnover of £22.8m (less contributions from its Chloros Environmental waste management joint venture) and a pre-tax profit of ...

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    TNT Express turnover falls after loss of contract

    2013-10-29T10:06:00Z

    TNT Express has seen a drop in both turnover and operating profit, following the loss of a contract with a major fashion retailer in the UK.The operator’s Q3 2013 results revealed that adjusted operating profit for its Europe Main division (UK and Ireland, Benelux, France, Germany and Italy), fell by ...

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    Safetykleen orders 85 new Ivecos

    2013-10-28T17:19:00Z

    Safetykleen, the hazardous waste management company, has renewed its fleet with 85 new vehicles.The company has purchased a range of trucks from 61 5.5 tonne Iveco Daily vans through the weight range up to three 44-tonne tractor units.The new vehicles will be rolled out during the next couple of months ...

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    Yusen Logistics renews Nissan manufacturing contract

    2013-10-28T16:38:00Z

    Yusen Logistics has renewed its contract with Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK), a contract it has held since 2008.As a result Yusen will provide the inbound logistics to Nissan’s plant in Sunderland, providing components for the Qashqai, Note, Juke and Leaf vehicles.Yusen MD Ian Veitch said: “This is great news which ...

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    Charles Gee Group administrators still seek buyers for subsidaries

    2013-10-28T16:34:00Z

    FRP Advisory, the administrators of Charles Gee Group, has confirmed to Motortransport.co.uk that it is still seeking a buyer for some of its road transport interests.Earlier today it emerged that C&H (Hauliers) had been acquired by CM Downton, but that deal primarily applies to Charles Gee's transport interests in the ...

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    DHL Supply Chain takes on 63 dual fuel trucks

    2013-10-28T15:50:00Z

    DHL Supply Chain’s Consumer division has become the latest – and among the biggest – investor in gas-powered trucks with the replacement of most of its 70-strong fleet based at its multi-user DC at Bawtry near Doncaster, south Yorkshire, with Volvo FM MethaneDiesel dual fuel 6x2 tractor units.The large scale ...

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    C&H (Hauliers) acquired by CM Downton

    2013-10-28T09:34:00Z

    C&H (Hauliers) has been acquired by CM Downton in a deal that creates a £114m a year turnover haulage group.Charles Gee Group, parent company to C&H, entered administration last week citing "acute cash-flow problems".Downton - MT Haulier of the Year 2012 - had a turnover of £93m in the financial ...

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    UPS hopeful Christmas strike action can be avoided

    2013-10-25T16:08:00Z

    UPS remains hopeful that strike action can be avoided in the run up to Christmas, despite the Unite union’s plan to ballot staff for action at the operator’s London depot in Camden.The union has claimed that the 120 drivers and loaders at the operator’s Camden depot are being forced to ...

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    Suttons Group expands in China

    2013-10-25T15:37:00Z

    Suttons & Sons acquisition today of Han Chi Logistics Co in China is a sign of the times for the Widnes-based firm. It makes far more money outside of the UK than it does in it.To put it in simpler terms – Sutton & Sons (St Helens), the ‘British’ bit ...

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    UK faces months of uncertainty over rural fuel duty rebate

    2013-10-25T10:40:00Z

    Treasury officials have indicated it will probably take seven to nine months for the European Commission to make its decision about an extension of the UK’s rural fuel duty rebate scheme.Motortransport.co.uk understands that the UK’s recent application to extend the original scheme to 10 new towns in England and Scotland ...