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Yodel and APC reveal successful Christmas peak
Yodel and APC Overnight have revealed record volumes over the Christmas period, after investing in infrastructure and staff in 2013.Yodel handled over 14 million parcels in the 24 days leading up to Christmas, while network APC reported a 27% increase in year-on-year volumes for its busiest week to just under ...
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ArticlePower Players 2013: Siim Kallas, Transport Minster, European Commission
7) Siim Kallas, Transport Minster, European CommissionWhile 4m trailer heights is a problem that doesn’t seem to want to go away, Kallas and the European Commission are looking to the future. He wants to simplify cabotage rules and further liberalise the European market for road transport. And he wants to ...
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Morrisons launches food home deliveries
Morrisons has launched its online food offering, with deliveries across the Midlands due to start on 10 January.The supermarket expects to deliver to around half of the country by the beginning of 2015 using a fleet of Morrisons-liveried home delivery vehicles.The launch of Morrisons.com follows the signing of a 25-year ...
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Overview of the UK Commercial Vehicle Industry: 2014 Edition
Overview of the UK Commercial Vehicle Industry: 2014 EditionStop press: the 2015 edition of the report is now available.In partnership withPublished by Road Transport Media, January 2014, in partnership with Texaco Lubricants and with associated sponsorship from Continental Tyres.This annual report, now in its fourth year, offers an in-depth analysis ...
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ArticleWinter is coming... and the UK is ready and waiting
Winter is coming, and compared to a few years ago at least, it appears that the UK is actually prepared.Certainly the Transport Committee’s Ready and waiting? report into winter resilience, which is published today, is largely positive, something that can’t always be said (see last year’s Vosa report).Indeed, the general ...
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Power Players 2013: Gavin Chappell, supply chain director, Asda
8) Gavin Chappell, supply chain director, Asda Part of the giant Walmart family, Asda vies with Sainsbury’s for second position in the UK grocery retailing pecking order with annual sales of £23bn and 400 stores. With 23 DCs around the UK and a fleet of nearly 1,000 vehicles, Asda likes ...
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Gregory Distribution snapped up Interoute Transport Services for £75,000
Gregory Distribution Limited snapped up the business, assets and goodwill of collapsed Oxfordshire firm Interoute Transport Services for just £75,000, according to the firm’s administrators. In a progress report, published last month, Quantuma adminstrators Carl Jackson and Kelly Mitchell stated that following their appointment on 17 May 2013 they closed ...
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MT Tracker 2013 - year in review
2013 was a year of moves forward for every transport firm listed on the Stock Exchange. And while we lost CityLink (to a management buy-out), we gained Royal Mail - and a whole heap of market capitalisation. So without further ado - let's find out who the big winners were!For ...
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ArticleA year in the life of pallet networks: 2013
Having achieved record volume last year 2013 is set to be another record breaker, with the UK’s nine pallet networks on course to handle the most pallets through their systems that they have ever done since the launch of the concept two decades ago.The latest data from the Association of ...
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ArticlePower Players 2013: Ian Wainwright, head of freight and fleet delivery, TfL
Ian Wainwright, TfL head of freight and fleet9) Ian Wainwright, head of freight and fleet delivery, TfLWith 18 years logistics industry experience under his belt, Ian Wainwright understands freight. As road freight programme manager at TfL during the lead up to the London 2012 Games, he bridged the gap between ...
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DHL Express delivers 1,300 instruments for New Year's Day parade
DHL Express has delivered hundreds instruments for US and Panama-based high school and university marching bands participating in the London New Year’s Day Parade today (1 January).More than 8,500 performers, including the 20 bands that DHL is providing the transport for, will participate in the event, which begins ...
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ArticlePower Players 2013: Humberto Delgado Rosa - DG Climate Action, European Commission
10) Humberto Delgado Rosa - Director for adaptation to climate change and low carbon technology, DG Climate Action, European CommissionWho we here you say? Delgado Rosa is one of the most influential European policy wonks you will never have heard of.When asking the question: ‘Where next for heavy truck ...
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Motortransport.co.uk editorial team highlights of 2013
Throughout 2013 the Motortransport.co.uk editorial team has worked hard to bring its loyal readers the very best breaking news in the industry. So, if you will forgive just one indulgence, here are our highlights of the year. Christopher Walton, Group News Editor: The MT Awards can be loud, noisy and ...
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ArticleTop 10 highlights from the MT Awards 2013
Arriving at Park Lane for the start of the MT Awards is where the buzz really starts to build – and in 2013 the atmosphere was given an extra twist as our 1,600 guests were greeted by the world famous Mariachi band. They didn’t actually get much chance to play ...
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Power Players 2013: Geoff Dunning, chief executive, RHA, and Theo de Pencier, chief executive, FTA
11) Geoff Dunning, chief exec, RHA and 12) Theo de Pencier, chief exec, FTAWhile the year-end disappointment of the failure to get a cut in fuel duty may rankle, with hindsight the joint campaigning between the industry’s pre-eminent trade associations (fronted by the FairFuelUK lobby) may be seen as ...
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Top contract wins and renewals of 2013
This year, 3PLs have won millions in new and renewed business from retailers, manufacturers and service providers in the UK and beyond; some more business than others. Motortransport.co.uk takes a look at 2013’s top contract wins.Norbert Dentressangle wins £100m ASOS contractND’s ASOS win in the summer was not only one ...
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Technical Excellence completes line up of new awards categories
Completing the line up of our three new awards for excellence is MT’s new Technical Excellence Award, sponsored by Hankook Tyre UK.Whoever is responsible for managing the specification, acquisition, repair and maintenance and disposal of an operator’s fleet (be it an in-house department or a third party provider) to win ...
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New award category recognises unsung heroes of operations
Another new category in the 2014 Motor Transport Awards will be Operational and Compliance Excellence, sponsored by tachograph and road transport legislation experts Tachodisc.The operations department of any transport operator – own account or third party - contains many of the key people who make the logistics world work. Often ...
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Power Players 2013: Tony Devlin, regional officer, Unite
13) Tony Devlin, regional officer, Unite“We are lucky to have an exceptional officer in Tony Devlin to work with,” retired industry stalwart Peter Larner told Motortransport.co.uk earlier this year in reference to the Unite officer’s skill in negotiating between transport bosses and workers.Indeed, Devlin, along with fellow regional and national ...
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Article2013: A year in the life of the post and parcels sector
This year has seen many companies in the parcels sector thrive as carriers move record volumes and consumers continue to do more of their shopping online. But while this has encouraged some parcel carriers to invest heavily in their networks and offer more services to their customers, 2013 has also ...