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Sainsbury's to open national frozen food DC
Sainsbury’s is to replace its Elstree DC in Borehamwood with a national frozen food DC in Northampton. The 325,000ft² replacement facility will be built next to Sainsbury’s existing 625,000ft² DC in Prologis Park Pineham. Construction work is expected to begin in the spring and be completed by early 2018.A Sainsbury's ...
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MT ArticleGiving a lift to driver recruitment
Mobile Mini is a fast-growing provider of temporary site accommodation and secure storage containers across the UK. Founded in the USA in 1983, it set up in the UK in 2005 in Stockton on Tees and now has 16 depots with more than 36,000 portable units.Mobile Mini currently runs around ...
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Wincanton toasts five-year Majestic Wine win
Wincanton has sealed a five-year deal with Majestic Wine to set up a national fulfilment centre (NFC) at its shared user site in Greenford which will process 40% of the wine merchant’s online orders.As part of the agreement, Wincanton will store, pick, pack and deliver over 4 million Majestic Wine ...
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Pall-Ex revives plans for European expansion
Pall-Ex has reignited its European expansion push and will have almost doubled its existing network on the continent by early next year.With Italy and Iberia up and running, the pallet network outlined ambitious plans to Motortransport.co.uk in summer 2011 to have 15 master franchisee agreements in place across the continent ...
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Boss of Europa Worldwide sees bright Brexit future
Even if customs clearance is reinstated following Brexit, leaving the EU remains the best thing for the UK, according to Europa Worldwide Group MD Andrew Baxter. Dartford-based Europa has a 45/55% split in its European/UK freight volume and plans to increase exports to the continent.“It would be much better if ...
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Transport for Greater Manchester to adopt Clocs
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is looking to encourgage uptake of Clocs across the city region.A city-centre event, featuring an Exchanging Places demonstration, was attended by operators, construction firms and local council representatives earlier this month.They discovered how Clocs could reduce work-related road risk in their supply chains – a ...
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Fees for Clocs members could be on the cards
TfL has appointed a private consortium to run Clocs and roll the work-related road risk scheme out across the UK, which could potentially see the introduction of fees.The Clocs Secretariat and Administration will focus on engaging public authorities, planners and procurers to mandate Clocs for all construction contracts.The secretariat comprises ...
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MT ArticleGovernment challenges industry to employ more minorities
The government has challenged the logistics industry to boost the number of its female and ethnic minority employees. The government itself has a target of 20% of entrants to the engineering and technical apprenticeships to be female of BAME, and said in its response to a Transport Committee skills report ...
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Gulliver's Truck Hire focuses on vulnerable road user safety at Freight in the City Expo
Gulliver’s Truck Hire will be talking to visitors at next week’s Freight in the City Expo about the range of safe, compliant commercial vehicles it can provide fleet operators for urban operations.The rental business recently provided fridge-bodied Mercedes-Benz Econics for Reynold’s Catering on a long-term contract hire deal for use ...
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Uncertainty over EU driver rights is major risk to UK
Uncertainty over EU workers’ future employment rights is a “major concern” given that 10% of the UK’s driver workforce is from the EU, the FTA has warned. In a new report, The driver shortage: issues and trends, the FTA highlights the UK’s reliance on the 31,542 EU drivers in the ...
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Travis Perkins: 'construction industry leading the way on work-related road risk'
Building merchant group Travis Perkins will be taking part in next week’s Freight in the City Expo to demonstrate its commitment to managing work related road risk (WRRR).Travis Perkins, itself a Fors gold member and Clocs champion, has this year introduced four new Mercedes-Benz Econics to its urban operations to ...
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MT ArticleWH Bowker buys warehousing and transport operations at five Potter Logistics' sites
WH Bowker has bought the warehousing and transport operations at five sites belonging to Potter Logistics for an undisclosed sum.The operations are located at Droitwich, Knowsley, Ripon (the first three all top-tier COMAH accredited facilities), Selby and York.WH Bowker, which has locations in Preston and Hull, said the acquisition make ...
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Coalition pushes for Lower Thames Crossing decision
A coalition of businesses and freight groups have signed a letter urging the chancellor to make up his mind on the preferred route for the Lower Thames Crossing.They say a new crossing would make a significant contribution towards two of the country’s most significant economic challenges – the need to ...
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Government opens Modern Transport Bill consultation
A consultation into the Modern Transport Bill, which aims to boost the use of electric vans in the UK, has begun.The bill was announced in the Queen’s Speech earlier this year, and would tackle what the government described as the three main challenges of boosting ULEV (ultra-low emission vehicle) use ...
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Norbert Dentressangle trading strong before XPO Logistics transition
The transition from Norbert Dentressangle to XPO Logistics in 2015 saw the 3PL make strong turnover gains across its three primarily road transport based activities in the UK.XPO acquired ND on 8 June 2015, and renamed its legal entities on 1 December 2015 – according to its most recent filings ...
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Pie Mapping to showcase journey planning and fleet management at Freight in the City Expo
Pie Mapping will be at Freight in the City Expo on 2 November in London to demonstrate how its fleet management and journey planning software can make deliveries more efficient.The firm’s Pie Maps, available from next month, provides real-time journey planning to ensure vehicles take the most efficient route ...
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Third Heathrow runway met with cautious welcome by transport associations
The decision to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport has been tentatively welcomed by the industry. While the general consensus is that it was the correct decision, there remain uncertainties that need clarification, according to road transport representatives.The decision to expand Heathrow was announced today (25 October) after years ...
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MT ArticleWincanton cements deal with Hanson
Wincanton bought 75 new cement mixers for it's Hanson contractHanson has outsourced part of its concrete delivery operations to Wincanton.Under the eight-year contract Wincanton will deliver more than half a million cubic metres of concrete a year to Hanson's customers, typically building contractors, using a flexible fleet of around 70 ...
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Road haulage trailblazers given final go ahead as government confirms apprenticeship funding
The HGV driver training apprenticeship has been given the official go ahead with the government’s confirmation of apprenticeship funding today. The department will fund 100% of apprenticeship training for companies with fewer than 50 employees taking on candidates aged 16-18, as well as committing more than £60m of funding for ...
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DX Group's Legal Post (Scotland) deal given the green light
DX Group’s multi-million pound takeover of Legal Post (Scotland) and First Post has been given the green light, after the UK competition authority closed its investigation into the deal.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced in July that it was reviewing DX’s £3.25m acquisition, which will increase the operator’s presence ...