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Marcus Bennett becomes UK national manager at Kuehne + Nagel

2013-10-01T08:35:00Z

Kuehne + Nagel has appointed Marcus Bennett as national manager for the UK, replacing Yngve Ruud.Bennett, former national manager for Ireland, will take up his position on 1 November, while Ruud has become deputy regional manager for Western Europe.“Marcus Bennett brings a wealth of experience in solutions, customer,and people development ...

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Tesco takes delivery of 28 Volvo FMs for Northern Ireland operation

2013-09-30T16:23:00Z

Tesco has taken delivery of 28 Volvo FM tractor-units for operation in Northern Ireland.The new trucks will operate out of the supermarket’s Belfast and Antrim DCs, and take its fleet in the province to 35 trucks and 155 trailers.Nine more Volvo FMs are due for delivery before December too, all ...

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TNT Post expands final mile deliveries into Greater Manchester

2013-09-30T16:21:00Z

TNT Post will expand its final mile delivery service into Greater Manchester in November as part of its plans to roll-out a nationwide end-to-end network.It will open 11 depots in Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Wigan and Bury when the service begins later this year, covering all households and businesses within the ...

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CVAs: the kiss of death?

2013-09-30T15:09:00Z

Sad news today with the confirmation that David Price Food Services has ceased trading with immediate effect, with the loss of more than one hundred jobs and no doubt a significant impact on the local region.The Tyne and Wear operator is set another in a long line of companies that ...

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David Price Food Services ceases trading

2013-09-30T14:26:00Z

Tyne and Wear-based David Price Food Services has gone into administration just over a year after entering a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA).The chilled haulage division of the business stopped trading with immediate effect today - with 109 employees made redundant – but its cold storage division, which has facilities in ...

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Profit up at The Pallet Network as turnover grows

2013-09-30T13:42:00Z

Profit up at TPNThe Pallet Network (TPN) is due to move to new premises adjacent to its current home on Prologis Park Midpoint in Minworth in the coming months.This has been driven by growth, and a lack of parking space for its members’ trucks, something borne out in TPN’s latest ...

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Royal Mail listing to begin on 11 October

2013-09-30T13:17:00Z

Royal Mail will begin its listing on the London Stock Exchange on 11 October, with the price per share set between 260p and 330p.The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills also revealed that it intends to make between 401 million and 522 million shares available in total for public and ...

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Stobart wins 15 year Welsh biomass contract

2013-09-30T10:03:00Z

Stobart Group’s Biomass division has won a 15-year contract with Western Bioenergy to supply 150,000 tonnes of biomass a year to its plant in Port Talbot, Wales.Furthermore Stobart has invested an £800,000 equity and debt stake in the project, alongside Greensphere Capital, which owns Western Bioenergy.Stobart Biomass will supply approximately ...

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Allport to provide Continental transport for ASOS

2013-09-30T08:52:00Z

Online fashion retailer ASOS has extended its relationship with Allport Cargo Services.The operator has managed ASOS’s international supply chain operations across air and sea since April 2012.Under the terms of the expanded contract, it will now also arrange road transport services for key ASOS suppliers via its own vehicle fleet ...

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Stand and deliver: customer's e-commerce expectations

2013-09-27T14:02:00Z

We're becoming an ever more demanding bunch when shopping online, according to a new European-focused analysis of the global 2013 UPS Pulse of the Online Online Shopper report.With the likes of smartphones and tablets making ordering something online about as easy as it's likely to get - at least until ...

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Harlequin Logistics on track for £10m turnover in 2013

2013-09-27T11:18:00Z

Haulage consortium Harlequin Logistics has signed five new contracts so far this year, and expects to close 2013 with turnover in excess of £10m.The consortium was launched in 2011 and comprises of Currie European Transport, Jack Richards & Son; John Raymond Transport, R Swain and Sons and Prestons of Potto ...

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WH Malcolm enjoys increase in activity levels

2013-09-26T16:01:00Z

WH Malcolm saw both turnover and pre-tax profit rise in the 12 months ending 31 January 2013 as it “enjoyed an increase in activity levels”.Turnover was up 2.8% to £177.4m, from £172.5m in the previous financial year, at the logistics arm of the Malcolm Group. Pre-tax profit in the division ...

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John Lewis launches CollectPlus collection trial

2013-09-26T15:22:00Z

Collect_PlusRetailer John Lewis has launched a trial allowing customers to collect goods from CollectPlus outlets.Customers will be able to pick up items purchased online via John Lewis at 1,500 local convenience stores, supermarkets and petrol stations within the CollectPlus network, initially in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and the South West ...

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KNDL restructuring plan remains intact

2013-09-26T12:20:00Z

Kuehne + Nagel Drinks Logistics (KNDL) has said its plan to restructure its drinks distribution network remains in place, despite industrial action by Unite members last week.Members of the union carried out a 24-hour strike earlier this month and were engaged in an indefinite ban on overtime and a ...

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Boughey Distribution network restructure making progress as planned

2013-09-26T11:54:00Z

Boughey Distribution, the food division at NWF Group, is making “progress as planned” as it looks to consolidate work for several customers customers at its Wardle, Greater Manchester, site.In August NWF announced that Boughey would restructure its network, after reporting a 14.2% year-on-year drop in turnover to £36.4m, which would ...

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Decision on who will run Southampton's Sustainable Distribution Centre due in October

2013-09-26T11:01:00Z

Southampton City Council has drawn up a short-list of operators to tender to run its Sustainable Distribution Centre (SDC), after inviting expressions of interest in the summer.The council has been awarded £225,000 from a central government local sustainable transport fund to fund the SDC, which will serve Southampton, Winchester, Eastleigh, ...

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Lionvest Trading signs up Meachers for another three years

2013-09-26T08:11:00Z

Meachers has been rewarded with a contract extension by Lionvest TradingWood flooring importer Lionvest Trading (UK) has extended its warehousing and distribution contract with Southampton-based Meachers Global Logistics.Meachers and Lionvest have worked together for the past eight years, and the three-year contract extension is the third such deal during this ...

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Remember, remember Driver CPC in September

2013-09-25T15:36:00Z

Having established that if there is a driver shortage next year due to the Driver CPC UK operators will not be able to recruit drivers from abroad that don’t hold the certificate – regardless of whether they are from one of the eight countries in Europe that have an extension ...

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Skills for Logistics chief replaced by deputy

2013-09-25T13:26:00Z

Skills for Logistics (SfL) has announced the sudden departure of its chief executive, Mick Jackson. Jackson (pictured), who had been in the post for five years, has been replaced with immediate effect by his former deputy, Ross Moloney, while the board seeks a new chief executive.In a written statement from ...

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Highways Agency extends roadworks contract with Norbert Dentressangle

2013-09-25T13:24:00Z

The Highways Agency has renewed a contract with Norbert Dentressangle to manage the storage and distribution of goods in support of road repairs and maintenance throughout the country. The contract, which ND originally won in 2009 and has now been extended to 2015, is serviced from a 100,000ft² area at ...