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Amazon launches Christmas warehouse staff recruitment drive

2013-10-03T12:46:00Z

Online retail giant Amazon has launched a seasonal recruitment drive for warehouse staff to help meet demand over the Christmas peak.The retailer revealed plans to recruit 15,000 temporary staff for its eight UK ‘fulfilment centres’ in Doncaster, Dunfermline, Gourock, Hemel Hempstead, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley and Swansea Bay. These store ...

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Clugston Distribution expands Interbulk fleet

2013-10-03T09:10:00Z

Clugston Distribution has expanded its fleet to service a five-year contract with multinational liquid and dry bulk giant Interbulk, which it signed in the summer.The four new Renault Premiums will be coupled with specialist 30ft tipping frame trailers, built by manufacturer Martans, and designed to carry and discharge bulk powders ...

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River Island extends home delivery contract with Hermes

2013-10-02T16:40:00Z

Hermes has won a contract extension from River Island, covering home delivery of clothes, shoes and accessories ordered online.The carrier will collect parcels from the customer’s Milton Keynes DC on a daily basis, where they will be trunked to Hermes’ Nuneaton hub for processing and sorting.They will then be transported ...

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DHL Express to sell same-day domestic business to Rico Logistics

2013-10-02T15:36:00Z

DHL Express has revealed that it intends to sell its same-day domestic business to technology distributor Rico Logistics later this month, as it continues to focus on the international express market.The firm, which sold its B2C domestic business to form Yodel in 2010, said it has agreed to sell its ...

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Royal Mail to open 10 temporary sort centres for peak

2013-10-02T15:25:00Z

Royal Mail will be opening 10 temporary sort centres for the third consecutive peak to help sort the forecast high volume of parcels.The carrier, which is preparing for its listing on the London Stock Exchange next week, is hoping to recruit 4,000 workers for facilities in Motherwell, Livingston, Heywood, ...

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Conservative Fringe debates road tolls

2013-10-02T15:18:00Z

Road tolling was a key topic discussed at a fringe seminar hosted by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport at this week's Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.Director of the RAC Foundation, Prof Stephen Glaister, told delegates that the Treasury faces a £30m per year deficit from falling fuel duty ...

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Yodel brand remains intact as it simplifies group structure

2013-10-02T13:46:00Z

Yodel has simplified its business structure so that all operations will now be run through Yodel Delivery Network.Since it was established in 2010 following the merger of DHL Domestic and HDNL, the parcel carrier operated through four sister companies; Yodel Delivery Network , Parcelpoint, HDN (NI) and Yodel Transport.Yodel has ...

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MT Tracker - 2 October

2013-10-02T11:26:00Z

Stobart Group kicked Monday off with a bang, winning a 15-year biomass contract with Western Bioenergy. But investors seem to have shrugged their shoulders at the news, which refused to budget the share price from 123p. Maybe we could find a bit more success elsewhere, as it has been a ...

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Transport gets the recognition it deserves?

2013-10-02T09:34:00Z

Transport is now seen by all the major parties as something that is “vital to the economy”, FTA chief executive Theo de Pencier told the Hub at this week's Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.He said that just four or five years ago, you'd be hard-pressed at any party conference to ...

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Do your duty: not quite fair fuel yet

2013-10-01T16:04:00Z

Fighting for FairFuel?"Political ping pong" was how FairFuelUK (FFUK) co-founder Howard Cox summed up the news this week that fuel duty would likely be frozen for the rest of this parliament.Cox was in little doubt that given Labour's headline grabbing pledge at their own party conference to cut utility bills, ...

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Trading "satisfactory" at Currie European

2013-10-01T15:59:00Z

The MD of Currie European has warned that customer rates must increase in 2014, to keep pace with the growing cost of running a haulage business.It comes as the Dumfries-based haulier saw a fall in pre-tax profit for the year ending 31 December 2012 to £336,667, from £657,562 in the ...

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Transport minister Patrick McLoughlin commits to road investment

2013-10-01T12:37:00Z

The Conservative Party has insisted that investment in Britain's road network will be "the big thing that will decide our country’s future".Transport minister Patrick McLoughlin said yesterday (30 September) at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester that the government had already committed £9.2bn to local councils to fix issues such ...

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Palletways wins OrganiCulture contract

2013-10-01T11:04:00Z

Palletways Fulfilment, the warehousing arm of the pallet network, has won a contract with OrganiCulture, a distributor and retailer of organic products from Italy.The award of the contract comes after a trial period.It will see Palletways store, process orders, provide a pick and pack service, and modify/re-work some of ...

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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 ...