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Latest news – Page 658
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Surge in demand to underpin modest increase in warehouse rents
Rental levels at large warehouses are set to rise this year after a fall in the supply of sites across the UK last year.Supply of logistics facilities of over 100,000ft² fell to “exceptionally low levels” during 2013, according to CBRE’s latest MarketView report.At the end of the year, it stood ...
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ArticleI am the law! Why we need more enforcement not more regulation
Police car in LondonThe Hub has got hold of enforcement figures for 2013 from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), which clearly show that there’s a rotten core of operators within road transport that are giving the rest of the industry a bad name.The MPS Commercial Vehicle Unit does its bit ...
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DX Group to list on stock market
DX Group has revealed its intention to sell shares via an initial public offering (IPO).The operator is scheduled to start trading on AIM from 27 February but the size of the share offer is yet to be determined.DX Group describes its growth strategy as including a combination of organic growth, ...
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More sign up to parcel locker concept
Parcel lockers as a viable service option in the appear to be finding favour, with the introduction of Poland’s InPost to the UK and increased coverage of B2C locker-boxes from ByBox.Parcel lockers are also to be found in an increasingly diverse set of locations, with some rail stations set to ...
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FedEx Express expands healthcare condition-monitoring service
FedEx Express has increased the coverage of its SenseAware service, which monitors the conditions needed to transport environmentally-sensitive goods.The service, which has previously been operating in the UK and Ireland, has been expanded to cover deliveries to, from, and within 14 more countries on the Continent.It is aimed at customers ...
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ArticlePalletways shakes up its senior management team
Following the news that Julian Maturi had returned to Palletways, the business he headed when it was sold in 2004 to James Wilson and Phoenix Equity Partners, it appears the pallet network had a major re-shuffle of its executive team last year.Susan Hundleby, who was group finance director and company ...
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New driver pipeline now a trickle rather than a flood
As previously looked at on The Hub in Where have all the new truck drivers gone? Ours is a sector suffering an acute shortage of new entrants.Ahead of the release of the January Driver CPC stats, December’s figures once again underline the paucity of new drivers joining the industry.December’s data ...
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ArticleP&O Ferrymasters wins £187m Tata Steel deal
P&O Ferrymasters has won a new €225m (£187m) pan-European road transport contract with Tata Steel Europe (TSE).The three-year deal, which commenced last month, sees goods collected from TSE’s UK hubs in south Wales, Corby and Scunthorpe, for delivery across Europe, with cross-border distribution co-ordinated from Ijmuiden steelworks in The Netherlands.Transport ...
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ArticleIs Cyber Monday as busy as the parcel sector thinks?
The concept of ‘Cyber Monday’ at the beginning of December, which the industry claims is the busiest day for online shopping every year, has been disproved by parcel carrier manager Global Freight Solutions (GFS).In its annual analysis of the Christmas peak, the company said the concept is “merely the first ...
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ArticleUPS acquires Leighton Buzzard operator Polar Speed
UPS has acquired temperature-controlled operator Polar Speed for an undisclosed sum.The Leighton Buzzard-based operator, which runs a mixture of 118 temperature-controlled HGVs and vans for customers in the pharmaceutical sector, has been added to UPS's healthcare operation across Europe.UPS Europe president Cindy Miller said: "Polar Speed is an excellent strategic ...
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Turnover and operating profit up at Hargreaves Logistics
Hargreaves Services’ transport division, Hargreaves Logistics, saw both turnover and operating profit increase in the first six months of the current financial year.Like-for-like turnover in the division grew from £40m to £49.5m, an interim management statement for the six months to 30 November 2013 have shown, which the operator put ...
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ArticleFarrall and ELB Partners achieve silver Fors
Chester-based Edwin C Farrall Transport and Wimbledon firm ELB Partners have both been awarded silver status under Fors, TfL’s voluntary fleet recognition scheme.Farrall MD Mike Farrall said he was delighted with the award. “The step up from bronze accreditation demonstrates to our customers, our prospective customers and the wider logistics ...
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ArticleHonda extends Yusen contract
Honda of the UK Manufacturing (HUM) and Yusen Logistics have renewed their contract, extending a partnership that goes back to 2006.In 2011 Yusen was appointed sole provider for HUM inbound collections, supporting the manufacture of the Civic, Jazz and CRV in Swindon. Previously it had been appointed in 2006 to ...
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ArticleTachodisc MD Karen Crispe to step down
Karen Crispe will step down from her role as MD of Tachodisc to join the FTA at the start of April as commercial director.Philip Jordan will succeed her as MD and will work alongside her during the handover period.Jordan was MD of Tachodisc from 1996 to 2005 and returns following ...
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ArticlePoundland spends big on 35 new Volvo trucks
Poundland has ordered 35 Volvo trucksHigh street retailer Poundland has added 35 Volvos to its own-account fleet to replace existing vehicles and support its store opening programme.The order, via the Wallsall branch of the Hartshorne Group, consists of 27 FH 6x2 tractor units, three FM 6x2 rigids and five FL ...
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ArticleRegistrations to rise as big players prepare to increase spend
Operators that run at least 51 trucks predict they will buy more vehicles this year than they did in 2013. In the latest CV Report, large operators said they will take delivery of an average of 33.4 vehicles on contract hire or rental and 60.3 by outright purchases this year. ...
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ArticleBaxter adds four former RH Freight directors to Europa Worldwide
Europa Worldwide Logistics has appointed four new directors, all formerly of RH Freight, as MD Andrew Baxter continues to build the business.Last August Europa was acquired by Baxter, the former joint owner of RH Freight, who took a 90% controlling stake in the international operator.It marked a return to the ...
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ArticleShortage of labour damaging recovery, says Pallet-Track boss
Pallet Track is celebrating 10 years in business in 2014The availability of trucks and drivers is now a critical issue threatening to stifle road transport’s recovery and hurt the wider UK economy, the MD of Pallet-Track has warned.Speaking to MT, pallet network boss Nigel Parkes described managing a return to ...
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ATF Next Generation Testing pilot to commence in Wales
A six month pilot of next generation testing (NGT) will commence next month in south Wales with more than 20 ATF operators.Alex Fiddes, director of operations at DVSA - formerly Vosa and the DSA - said the trial will kick off in the middle of March and run through until ...
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ArticleMet police's Exchanging Places scheme gets MAN power
Exchanging PlacesThe Metropolitan Police’s Cycle Task Force has unveiled the latest tool to help it in its Exchanging Places cyclist safety awareness programme – an MAN TGX truck.The truck, which the Met's Cycle Task Force has leased for a year with funding from TfL, will be used at 120 Exchanging ...