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Latest news – Page 696
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ArticleRecord breaking start to the year for pallet networks
A record-breaking amount of pallets were shifted by Association of Pallet Networks (APN) members during the first quarter of this year.APN members moved 3.5 million pallets through their hubs during the first few months of the year, representing the highest amount since benchmarking began in 2007, and a 4% increase ...
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DSV wins Stannah Stairlifts distribution contract
DSV’s road division has won a with Stannah Stairlifts in a deal that will see it become the sole logistics provider for its road distribution.The operator won the contract, which covers deliveries from Stannah’s UK manufacturing plant to customers across Europe, after it delivered a number of loads for Stannah ...
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MT Tracker 5 June
There is one share in transport that is having a little run at the moment. One that doesn't do it very often. After slipping to a low of 45p on 27 March, Wincanton keeps on growing. As of this morning it hit 82.35p - that's an 83% return on your ...
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ArticleC2C parcels a key growth area, says market analyst
With a privatised Royal Mail around the corner, parcel carriers will no doubt be wondering how they can compete with the carrier that services the majority of the C2C parcels market. But a new report by market analyst Apex Insight has highlighted one area that carriers should be working ...
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Groupe Samat UK goes back to black
Leeds-based Groupe Samat UK pulled itself out of the red last year, company results for the year to 31 December 2012 have revealed.Pre-tax profit at the chemical transport group amounted to £191,442, compared with a loss of £543,273 in 2011.Turnover fell 4.7% to £9.04m (2011: £9.48m).The directors’ report noted the ...
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ArticlePulford focuses on Pallet-Track special projects
Pallet Track hub, WolverhamptonPallet-Track has appointed Mark Pulford, who has 14 years’ experience in the pallet network market, to head up a number of special projects.Pulford, who left his role as operations director at rival Palletline in February, was previously director of operations at Pall-Ex.He joins Pallet-Track Services, a ...
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Industry gives cautious welcome to cabotage change
The industry has broadly welcomed the European Commission’s (EC) decision to drop plans to lift cabotage restrictions, but said it wants the current rules to be more rigorously enforced.Brian Yeardley Continental MD Kevin Hopper said more needs to be done in the UK to ensure foreign operators’ work is being ...
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ArticleBeverley Bell's explosive evidence
Senior traffic commissioner Beverley BellOn Friday 31 May Motortransport.co.uk drew attention to senior traffic commissioner Beverley Bell’s concerns about the way in which Vosa was conducting its enforcement activities – and that the “serially and seriously non-compliant” were slipping through the net. It was quite the accusation.Bell’s evidence before the ...
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ArticleCome together, right now
A visit earlier this year to see the team at Pall-Ex covered a lot of topics, including rates and the inescapable industry topic of ever present rate pressure.Pall-Ex deputy MD Cris Stephenson was unequivocal on the subject, stating the only way to combat rate pressure was for operators to become ...
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Royal Mail misses first class delivery target
Royal Mail missed its first class mail delivery target last year, after it experienced final mile delivery difficulties during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as the wintery weather throughout January, February and March.The operator missed its target to deliver 93% of all first class items the next day, ...
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ArticleLenham Storage posts growth despite rates squeeze
Lenham Storage walked away from nonviable business last year rather than compromise its service standards, but the operator’s MD has warned that there has been no let-up in rate pressure since.Keith Abrehart, MD of the Kent-based firm, said of the company’s newly published results: “We have achieved what we consider ...
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ArticleAPC Overnight's new hub to be fully operational within weeks
APC Overnight expects to have its new £15m Cannock facility up to full operational effectiveness within the month.Cannock will replace the company’s existing facility in Essington, Staffordshire, and at present about 35% of the network’s business volumes have been shifted across to the new facility.Sid Ziaullah, chief executive of APC ...
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ArticleHicks Logistics expands into warehousing
Hicks LogisiicsHicks Logistics has moved into warehousing after the acquisition of a 20,000ft² industrial unit next to its Caldicot base on the Severn Bridge Industrial Estate.The company hopes the diversification will boost its annual turnover from £7.5m to around the £10m mark, and has taken on ten more staff taking ...
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ArticleThe Pallet Network's new hub begins to take shape
The Pallet Network’s (TPN) new hub at Prologis Park Midpoint in Minworth is taking shape ahead of its planned opening next year. The new hub, next to TPN’s current home, is about 50,000ft² bigger, at 367,500ft².TPN MD Adam Leonard said its real advantage would be significantly increased parking space, with ...
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ArticleMichelin weathering the recessionary storm
It is now five years since the credit crunch plunged Europe into deep recession. MT editor Steve Hobson went to Michelin HQ in Clermont-Ferrand to find out how the super-premium tyre maker is weathering the storm.Recessions are tough on premium brands, as buyers go into survival mode and the long-term ...
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Senior TC Beverley Bell slams Vosa
Senior Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell has lambasted Vosa for “not targeting the serially and seriously non-compliant”, and taking the easy route by going after “nice, but incompetent, small operators”.The allegations were made before the Transport Select Committee as part of its on-going inquiry into the work of Vosa back in ...
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ArticleTravel the trans-European transport network
The Highways Agency, Transport for Scotland, Transport for London, councils, damn councils and the Welsh mob. One day soon – UKIP permitting - the arteries of the UK economy (SNP permitting), could be under the control of the rather grand sounding trans-European transport network, rather less grandly abbreviated as TEN-T.As ...
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M6 closed for 12 hours after fatal accident
The eastbound carriageway of the M6 was closed for almost 12 hours on Monday (28 May) after a fatal accident involving a car and three LGVs, the Highways Agency has confirmed. The incident, which occurred at 10.48am between junction 1 of the M6 and the M1 motorway at junction ...
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ArticlePetition calling for oil price investigation draws 32,000 signatures
A petition calling for a full investigation into possible price fixing in the UK road fuels market has generated over 32,000 signatures.The petition, set up by fuel price campaign group Fair Fuel UK (FFUK) in mid-May in the wake of a series of raids by EU regulators on firms involved ...
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ArticleCo-operative expands waste back-haul operation
The Co-operative Group is expanding its back haul operation in a move that will save thousands of road miles and see 34,000 tonnes of food shop waste diverted from landfill.At the moment 1,500 food shops segregate waste for collection by The Co-operative's Logisitics Service with support from transport partners Norbert ...