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Latest news – Page 718
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ArticleDHL lends support to rugby's Harlequins
DHL Express will today (18 January) transport nearly a ton of rugby kit and equipment for London side Harlequins in support of their Heineken Cup clash in France with Biarritz.The gear will be moved from Harelquins’ training ground at the Surrey Sports Park in Guildford to the Parc des Sports ...
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ArticleNFT finds Yoplait's sweet spot
French yoghurt manufacturer Yoplait has extended its contract with chilled food and drink specialist NFT for a further three years.The contract involves NFT storing up to 500,000 cases a week at its Daventry depot, repacking products to meet UK requirements, and delivering to all the major UK retailers nationwide. This ...
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ArticleAKW predicts £1m boost to turnover
Expansion into international distribution should add around £1m a year in turnover this year, Manchester-based operator AK Worthington (AKW) has predicted.Having started daily services to nine overseas countries with weekly services to eight more, contributed to a 5.9% rise in the year to 30 June 2012 in annual turnover to ...
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ArticleExpansion means better coverage from Rygor
Like hauliers, truck dealers are consolidating, getting bigger, and widening the range of services they offer. Dealers no longer just sell trucks; they are increasingly taking on the vehicle repair and maintenance as more operators close their fleet engineering departments and rely on dealers for their R&M and other technical ...
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ArticleAdvanced Supply Chain to offer China freight forwarding service
Advanced Supply Chain plans to begin a freight forwarding operation serving China, which it hopes will open up the country for British businesses.The new plans will extend its existing relationship with Chinese logistics provider Sinotrans and provide import and export at the Pinhu Logistics Centre in Shenzhen, South China, which ...
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ArticleTNT Express and TNT Post await HMV outcome
HMV transport providers TNT Express and TNT Post are awaiting the outcome of the retailer’s administration.Both carriers have confirmed that they worked with the music and film retailer, which appointed administrator Deloitte on Tuesday (15 January).A spokesman for TNT Post confirmed that the carrier would continue working with HMV as ...
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ArticleStobart to discontinue chilled operations
Stobart Group is to discontinue its chilled operations “as a stand alone unit” insisting that the “change will not affect Stobart's national network solution for customers”.In an interim management statement today (17 January), Stobart said the Eddie Stobart transport and distribution division continued to perform in an uncertain economic environment ...
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ArticleVauxhall remains largest CV manufacturer in the UK
Van production at Vauxhall’s Luton and Ellesmere Port plants totalled more than 58,000 units in 2012, making the company the UK’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer for the 11th year running.Total production at Luton for Vivaro vans was 53,465, with manufacturing at Ellesmere Port contributing 5,373 Astravans to the 58,838 total.In ...
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ArticleMiniclipper grows business and fleet
Miniclipper Logistics has expanded its operations and vehicle fleet due to increased demand for warehousing from existing customers, as well as new business wins.The operator has taken on an 87,000ft² warehouse a mile from its main base in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, boosting its overall warehousing capacity to 200,000ft².Jayne Masters, sales ...
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Allport Cargo Services puts new leadership team in place
Allport Cargo Services, which recently rebranded and adopted its new name in celebration of its 50th anniversary, is to reshape its executive team with the appointment of joint group MDs from April.Danny Clayton, MD of the supply chain division, has been named as joint MD of Allport Cargo Services alongside ...
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Lakeland to spend £10m expanding Cumbria DC
Kitchenware retailer Lakeland is to spend £10m expanding its DC in Cumbria by 50% to provide additional capacity to match expected sales growth in the UK and abroad.The company celebrated record sales in 2012 and is looking to add to its 60-strong high street presence in the UK in the ...
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ArticleFelixstowe LEZ plans put on hold
Plans for a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) at Felixstowe port and fining the most polluting LGVs have been shelved after the air quality improved substantially.Lorries were calculated to be contributing more than a quarter of all NOx concentrations at a receptor site and prompted the local council to consider measures ...
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ArticleNews Extra: Playing smart to stay ahead
MT’s latest UK Commercial Vehicle Operator Report, produced in association with Texaco Lubricants, reveals the value of being smart. There’s much talk of the squeezed middle in British politics but the latest UK Commercial Vehicle Operator Report confirms the emergence of savvy operators forming a smart middle within road transport.These ...
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Hermes ParcelShop concept running ahead of expectations
Hermes has revealed that each of its ParcelShops handled an average 60 parcels a week in the run up to Christmas, as more than 60,000 parcels were moved through the network during the festive period.The carrier has also hit its target of opening 1,000 ParcelShops by the end of 2012, ...
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ArticleJobs at risk at Dublin haulier
Up to 83 jobs, including a dozen driving jobs, are at risk at Dublin-based distribution firm Johnson Brothers after it decided to outsource warehousing work to DHL (pictured), according to union SIPTU.It said the announcement that it planned to implement redundancies came as a shock and it was urging the ...
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DHL wins £100m Panasonic contract
DHL has won a £100m contract with electrical goods manufacturer Panasonic that will see it manage its warehousing and transportation.The contract will see DHL carry out order fulfillment of electronic goods, manage a shared warehouse operation, and look to enhance Panasonic's domestic transport operation.DHL Supply Chain MD of specialist ...
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UPS and TNT merger termination "risks reducing competition"
The European Commission’s decision to prevent UPS from acquiring TNT Express “risks reducing competition, not increasing it”, an analyst at Transport Intelligence said.UPS has now pulled out of its multi-billion Euro plans to take over TNT Express, which the logistics analyst believes highlights the scale of the challenges the US ...
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ArticleUPS and TNT: How the merger unfolded
Life after UPS for TNT ExpressUPS has pulled out of its multi-billion Euro bid to take over TNT Express, almost a year after it first entered into talks with the parcel firm. It hoped the merger would create a €45bn (£37.4bn) logistics giant, increasing the US firm’s presence in the ...
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ArticleUPS pulls out of TNT deal
UPS has pulled out of its €5.16bn offer for TNT Express - in a deal that would have created a business with a combined annual turnover of £1.3bn in the UK - blaming European Commission (EC) concerns with the acquisition.The proposed merger is expected to be prohibited by the ...
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ArticleCity Link extends partnership with Secured Mail
City Link is to extend its relationship with postal service Secured Mail from mid-February to include mail items.It already collects larger packets and parcels from businesses and the new collaboration allow it to extend the service.Secured Mail accesses Royal Mail mail centres and collects its customer’s mail. It then transports ...