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City Link invests £500,000 in Southampton depot

2013-10-07T12:31:00Z

City Link has opened a new depot in Southampton to handle increased demand for parcel collection and delivery in the area.The parcel carrier has invested £500,000 in the new 64,000ft² site on the Fareham Industrial Park, which is 30% larger than its previous depot.The increased capacity has allowed it to ...

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TfL launches Out-of-Hours Consortium

2013-10-04T16:12:00Z

TfL has today (4 October) revealed its Out-of-Hours Consortium, as well as officially announcing new out-of-hours delivery trials will be up and running in London within months. The trials, which were mooted this summer in TfL’s response to the Roads Task Force’s report on the future for the capital’s ...

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Amazon Logistics plans four more regional depots

2013-10-04T11:47:00Z

Amazon plans to open four more depots under its ‘Amazon Logistics’ business in 2014 to give it more flexibility and capacity.The online retailer hopes to open four more regional sites at undisclosed locations in the North West, South W est, the Midlands and Yorkshire, in addition to sites already operational ...

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Do all roads lead to ruin? The funding conundrum

2013-10-04T11:29:00Z

This week the head of the bank of England, Mark Carney, told ITV News Anglia the UK had "an infrastructure deficit in transport and beyond".That assessment will surprise very few - the truth of the statement confronts us everyday as we sit in traffic jams, crash down pot-holes and spend ...

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Analysts suggest DHL Express same-day sale will create CitySprint competitor

2013-10-03T15:28:00Z

Analysts have said the planned sale of DHL Express’s same-day domestic business will create another major player in the market to compete with CitySprint, and is unlikely to affect DHL's profitability.Frank Proud, director at Apex Insight said the deal will see Rico Logistics, the company set to buy the ...

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Norbert Dentressangle storage demand hints at possible economic upturn

2013-10-03T15:25:00Z

Norbert Dentressangle has reported higher-than-usual demand for storage space within its shared user network in recent months, suggesting it could be indicative of an upturn in the economy. Although demand for storage always increases in the run-up to Christmas, the company has already seen a 30% reduction in the amount ...

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Cold store costs impact on Reed Boardall pre-tax profit

2013-10-03T15:15:00Z

Costs associated with the opening of a new cold store last October at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire-based food logistics specialist Reed Boardall Group had a significant effect on the firm’s pre-tax profit for the year, it has emerged. The group’s latest accounts reveal a 5.7% increase in turnover for the year ...

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Amazon launches Christmas warehouse staff recruitment drive

2013-10-03T12:46:00Z

Online retail giant Amazon has launched a seasonal recruitment drive for warehouse staff to help meet demand over the Christmas peak.The retailer revealed plans to recruit 15,000 temporary staff for its eight UK ‘fulfilment centres’ in Doncaster, Dunfermline, Gourock, Hemel Hempstead, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley and Swansea Bay. These store ...

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Clugston Distribution expands Interbulk fleet

2013-10-03T09:10:00Z

Clugston Distribution has expanded its fleet to service a five-year contract with multinational liquid and dry bulk giant Interbulk, which it signed in the summer.The four new Renault Premiums will be coupled with specialist 30ft tipping frame trailers, built by manufacturer Martans, and designed to carry and discharge bulk powders ...

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River Island extends home delivery contract with Hermes

2013-10-02T16:40:00Z

Hermes has won a contract extension from River Island, covering home delivery of clothes, shoes and accessories ordered online.The carrier will collect parcels from the customer’s Milton Keynes DC on a daily basis, where they will be trunked to Hermes’ Nuneaton hub for processing and sorting.They will then be transported ...

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DHL Express to sell same-day domestic business to Rico Logistics

2013-10-02T15:36:00Z

DHL Express has revealed that it intends to sell its same-day domestic business to technology distributor Rico Logistics later this month, as it continues to focus on the international express market.The firm, which sold its B2C domestic business to form Yodel in 2010, said it has agreed to sell its ...

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Royal Mail to open 10 temporary sort centres for peak

2013-10-02T15:25:00Z

Royal Mail will be opening 10 temporary sort centres for the third consecutive peak to help sort the forecast high volume of parcels.The carrier, which is preparing for its listing on the London Stock Exchange next week, is hoping to recruit 4,000 workers for facilities in Motherwell, Livingston, Heywood, ...

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Conservative Fringe debates road tolls

2013-10-02T15:18:00Z

Road tolling was a key topic discussed at a fringe seminar hosted by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport at this week's Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.Director of the RAC Foundation, Prof Stephen Glaister, told delegates that the Treasury faces a £30m per year deficit from falling fuel duty ...

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Yodel brand remains intact as it simplifies group structure

2013-10-02T13:46:00Z

Yodel has simplified its business structure so that all operations will now be run through Yodel Delivery Network.Since it was established in 2010 following the merger of DHL Domestic and HDNL, the parcel carrier operated through four sister companies; Yodel Delivery Network , Parcelpoint, HDN (NI) and Yodel Transport.Yodel has ...

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MT Tracker - 2 October

2013-10-02T11:26:00Z

Stobart Group kicked Monday off with a bang, winning a 15-year biomass contract with Western Bioenergy. But investors seem to have shrugged their shoulders at the news, which refused to budget the share price from 123p. Maybe we could find a bit more success elsewhere, as it has been a ...

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Transport gets the recognition it deserves?

2013-10-02T09:34:00Z

Transport is now seen by all the major parties as something that is “vital to the economy”, FTA chief executive Theo de Pencier told the Hub at this week's Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.He said that just four or five years ago, you'd be hard-pressed at any party conference to ...

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Do your duty: not quite fair fuel yet

2013-10-01T16:04:00Z

Fighting for FairFuel?"Political ping pong" was how FairFuelUK (FFUK) co-founder Howard Cox summed up the news this week that fuel duty would likely be frozen for the rest of this parliament.Cox was in little doubt that given Labour's headline grabbing pledge at their own party conference to cut utility bills, ...

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Trading "satisfactory" at Currie European

2013-10-01T15:59:00Z

The MD of Currie European has warned that customer rates must increase in 2014, to keep pace with the growing cost of running a haulage business.It comes as the Dumfries-based haulier saw a fall in pre-tax profit for the year ending 31 December 2012 to £336,667, from £657,562 in the ...

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Transport minister Patrick McLoughlin commits to road investment

2013-10-01T12:37:00Z

The Conservative Party has insisted that investment in Britain's road network will be "the big thing that will decide our country’s future".Transport minister Patrick McLoughlin said yesterday (30 September) at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester that the government had already committed £9.2bn to local councils to fix issues such ...

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Palletways wins OrganiCulture contract

2013-10-01T11:04:00Z

Palletways Fulfilment, the warehousing arm of the pallet network, has won a contract with OrganiCulture, a distributor and retailer of organic products from Italy.The award of the contract comes after a trial period.It will see Palletways store, process orders, provide a pick and pack service, and modify/re-work some of ...