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Industry news – Page 149
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ArticleBridgestone invests in improving standards for UK tyre technicians
Bridgestone has opened a training and assessment centre at the Horiba Mira testing ground near Nuneaton to improve and accredit the skills of tyre technicians.While training courses and assessments will be chargeable, Bridgestone sales and marketing director - North Europe region John Folliss said the new centre represented a significant ...
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ArticleWarehousing availability on the increase but take up expected to be moderate
Segro has pre-let a 539,000 ft2 multi-storey facility to IKEA in Port de Gennevilliers near ParisThe availability of modern warehouses is set to reach a six-year high according to property agent and advisor Cushman & Wakefield – but there are huge regional variations within the UK.Currently there is 5.6 million ...
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ArticleWomen in Logistics incorporated into the CILT
Women in Logistics has been incorporated into the CILT, and will operate within it as the newly formed Women in Logistics Forum. Women in Logistics said its current members that elect to join the CILT stand to benefit from additional resources and its global reach.The forum will continue the work ...
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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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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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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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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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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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ArticlePallet networks continuing to make inroads in home delivery sector, says APN
Home deliveries by pallet networks continued to grow strongly in what was a record breaking 2017, according to the Association of Pallet Networks (APN).The latest APN figures reveal that home delivery volumes leapt by 6.9% last year as part of the sector's continued growth, and they are 24% higher than ...
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ArticleSpate of speculative warehouse development west of London
The urban logistics market to the west of London has seen a spate of activity, with two new developments starting and another completing. Aviva Investors has plans for a £32.7m development in Uxbridge, which will be constructed by the third quarter of 2018. This will consist of three warehouses of ...
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P&O Ferries to treble freight capacity thanks to Tilbury2 scheme
P&O Ferries is set to treble its freight capacity to 600,000 units a year by 2020 after signing a deal with Forth Ports to move to a £150m Thames river berth at the Port of Tilbury. P&O will use the new berth to expand its freight business to and from London ...
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ArticleStaff shortages increasing interest in warehouse automation
Warehouse staff shortages are fuelling interest in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, according to warehousing industry experts.Rob Fisher, event director of the IMHX 2019 show, said that the logistics industry can no longer rely on simply increasing the labour force to service new contracts.“A combination of falling unemployment levels, minimum ...
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Make sure your contracts are in order for storage as well as carriage
Companies that provide a full range of logistics-based functions must ensure their conditions of contract cover all of the services that they offer, warns UKWA chief executive Peter Ward.Many companies in the warehousing and haulage sectors use the UKWA conditions as the basis for their standard terms and conditions.They cover ...
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ArticleReduce load damage and improve forklift operator safety with simple kit
A simple yet ingenious plastic cover for the tips of forklift truck tines could save thousands of pounds in damage to palletised loads, according to the manufacturer SumoSafe.SumoSafefork and SumoGlove use industrial grade polyurethane tips fitted to a lift truck's forks to significantly reduce the effect of an accidental impact ...
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Highways England to push on with 'smart' motorway programme despite opposition
Highways England plans to step up its “smart” motorway programme, the agency's strategy and planning director Elliott Shaw told delegates at a strategy day this week. There will be a "modularised" approach so that they can be rolled out “mile after mile” across the network. This will be more cost-effective ...
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E-commerce boom shows no sign of slowing according to warehouse specialist Segro
The continuing importance of Amazon to the UK and European warehousing markets has been underlined in the annual results of developer and landlord Segro.Its financial statement for the year to 31 December 2017 said that Amazon occupied around 2.7 million ft2 of its space in the UK, Germany, Spain and ...
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ArticleHSE accused of 'fudging' pallet safety review after deciding against weight limit
An expected decision by the Health and Safety Executive to not limit the weight of tail-lift pallet deliveries has been met with anger by pallet networks, with Pall-Ex group MD Kevin Buchanan describing the result as the “biggest fudge under the sun”.The outcome of the three-year HSE review, prompted by ...
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ArticleHave you got what it takes to be Tanker Operator of the Year?
The deadline for entries for the 2018 Tip-ex and Tank-ex Awards is 30 March, so if you want to be recognised as the very best in your industry, get your entries in now.Submissions are being taken for: Tanker Operator of the Year (2017 winner Turners (Soham)) Tanker Safety Award (2017 ...
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ArticleLane Rental Scheme to be rolled out nationally in 2019
Local authorities across the country will be able to charge utility companies as much as £2,500 a day to work on roads in peak hours from next year. The DfT has announced a national roll out of its Lane Rental scheme after a successful pilot on roads in London and ...