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Norbert Dentressangle wins £100m ASOS contract
Norbert Dentressangle (ND) has sealed a £100m logistics deal with online fashion giant ASOS, taking the three-year contract from incumbent Unipart Logistics.The operation will see ND managing the retailer’s 1.1 million square foot global DC in Barnsley, West Yorkshire, which handles more than 60,000 product lines shipped to customers in ...
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KNDL workers vote for strike action
Workers at Kuehne + Nagel Drinks Logistics (KNDL) have voted in favour of strike action in a ballot by union Unite, which concluded last week (28 August).Unite revealed that 85% voted to strike on a turnout of 64%, having balloted 970 drivers, draymen and warehouse workers.Industrial action could affect deliveries ...
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ArticleRyder wins €30m MoD vehicle supply contract
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded a four year vehicle supply and maintenance contract to Ryder, worth €30m (£25.4m).It will cover the supply of LGVs to the MoD’s operation in Germany, as well as other vehicles including cars and minibuses, and will reflect the MoD’s planned troop reduction in ...
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Unite recommends DHL/ Jaguar Land Rover pay settlement
Union Unite is to recommend to its members a settlement with DHL and four companies providing the operator with agency staff on its contract with Jaguar Land Rover.DHL, alongside staffing firms NAC, Staffline and Milestone had been in negotiations with Unite over terms of pay for permanent and agency staffDHL ...
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ArticleNorbert Dentressangle wins Shanks European waste deal
Shanks Waste Management has appointed Norbert Dentressangle to manage European export of low carbon fuel from its Kettering and Glasgow materials recycling facilities.ND will now manage the transport of refuse derived fuel from Shanks locations in Kettering and Glasgow into energy recovery facilities in Holland and Germany, under transfrontier shipment ...
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UK Pallets adds Neill & Brown and Hellmann Worldwide
UK Pallets has added two new partners - Neill & Brown Global Logistics and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics – as part of the “continued development” of the network.Neill & Brown will handle the HU postcode for the network, effectively replacing D&P Haulage, which, at the end of 2011, switched networks to ...
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ArticleTurners (Soham) acquires Lewis Tankers
Turners (Soham) has acquired hazardous logistics specialist Lewis Tankers, as part of a strategy to expand its ADR operations.Hensall, East Yorkshire-based Lewis Tankers already has a well-established presence in the chemicals, aviation and energy industries, which will complement Suff0lk-based Turners' fuel distribution operations.Turners general manager Colin Rutherford will head ...
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ArticleYearsley Logistics opens northern superhub
Yearsley Logistics has completed the first phase of its new £20m northern ‘superhub’ in Heywood, Greater Manchester.The new 13.6-acre cold, which will be constructed in three phases, will double the chilled distribution specialist’s pallet capacity from 40,000 to 80,000 units per night.Harry Yearsley, MD at the Lancashire firm, said the ...
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Tesco receives permission for Oxfordshire home delivery DC
Tesco has received planning permission to develop a 134,333 ft² DC near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.Documents submitted to Vale of White Horse District Council in May revealed the supermarket’s plans to develop a home delivery DC on a former Esso site in Milton Hill, near Abingdon, which will be used specifically ...
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MT Tracker 28 August
The promise of a solid first half in its financial year did little to improve investor confidence in Stobart Group - because investors were already ahead of the curve. On 17 April it was trading at a year low of 76.5pence per share. Today its at its year high of ...
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HGV Road User Levy: a level playing field?
For decades the government has been urged to make competition fairer between UK and foreign operators but, now action is being finally taken, how effective will it prove, asks Guy Sheppard.When the HGV Road User Levy comes into force in April, Rob Hollyman, MD of Purfleet-based UK and international distribution ...
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Premier Logistics adds second southern location
Leicester-based Premier Logistics has added a second southern site to its rapidly growing operation.The operator, which revealed plans to leave its Meridian Business Park home last month for bigger premises, has acquired the business and assets of collapsed haulier Cobley Transport (Reading).The deal for the Thatcham depot of Cobley Transport ...
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Nightline Logistics joins Fortec network
Nightline Logistics has joined the Fortec Distribution Network as it seeks to enter the next phase of growth.The Nuneaton-based firm will serve Fortec customers in Coventry, parts of Warwickshire, including Nuneaton, Rugby, Leamington, Warwick, and Tamworth in Staffordshire.This is the first time Nightline, which also operates a satellite depot in ...
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ArticleOne of the founding fathers of TNT, Bill Hanley MBE, remembered
Bill Hanley died suddenly on 9 August, aged 81.Hanley played a key role in developing the TNT Express business. He was a director of Inter County Expressand remained with the company when the directors accepted a takeover offer from TNT in back in 1978, this led to him taking on ...
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Trading at Welch's Transport "progressing well" in 2013
Trading at the transport operations at Welch’s Transport this year is “progressing well” after a “reasonable performance” in 2012, according to MD Jim Welch.Despite the contribution of road haulage and warehousing activities at Welch’s Transport falling slightly from £8.8m in 2011 to £8.6m in the 12 months ending 31 December ...
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ArticleStobart Group reports solid first half, appoints new chairman
Stobart Group has made a “solid” start to its financial year despite a cold and wet June followed by the July heat wave causing volatility in its retail distribution business.The Group said today (23 August) that in the six months to the 31 August its transport and distribution division had ...
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Turnover down but profit up at John Raymond Transport
John Raymond Transport, which celebrates 60 years in business next month, achieved a modest increase in profit last year.For the year ending 30 September 2012, the company, with depots in Bridgend, Cannock and Swindon, reported a pre-tax profit of £42,000, on a turnover of £19.9m.Director Jonathan Raymond, son of the ...
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John Mitchell feels the benefit of tough rates stance
The managing director of John Mitchell (Grangemouth) said an increase in turnover and profit at the company was down to being tough with customers who wouldn’t move on rates.The haulage and warehousing firm saw an 8.5% increase in turnover for the year ending 31 March 2013, to almost £13m.Pre-tax profit ...
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ArticleCourier Diamond Logistics opens four new franchise sites
Courier franchise network Diamond Logistics opened four new depots last month as it continues with ambitions to operate over 30 sites by the end of 2015.The new sites in Croydon, Norwich, Newcastle and Ashburton in south Devon were opened in July to allow the franchises to grow before the Christmas ...
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Palletways expands into Czech Republic and Slovakia
Palletways is to launch services in the Czech Republic and Slovakia next month, a move that expands its services across 13 countries on the Continent.On the same day, Palletways’ European business will also start offering mini quarter pallet and light pallet services, bringing its number of different sized pan-European pallet ...