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JD Sports appoints Wincanton as national transport services partner

2024-04-24T08:59:00+01:00By Carol Millett

Wincanton has landed a major deal with retail giant JD Sports as its national transport services partner.

XPO delivers “transformative” 4PL service to agrochemical giant UPL

2024-04-23T09:17:00+01:00By Carol Millett

XPO has signed a new three year partnership with agrochemical giant UPL to provide a fourth-party logistics (4PL) solution.

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Maritime lands major deal as operator of WMI strategic rail freight interchange

2024-04-10T09:47:00+01:00By Carol Millett

Maritime Transport has won a major contract to become the long-term operator of the West Midlands Interchange’s strategic rail freight interchange (SRFI) on the West Coast Mainline.

DHL begins three-year contract with Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I

2024-01-30T16:59:00+00:00By Carol Millett

DHL Supply Chain’s new three-year contract with Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I, which sees it replace Wincanton as the company’s sole supply chain delivery and warehouse supplier, has launched this month.

Kuehne+Nagel clinches long-term global partnership with Clarion Events

2024-01-30T15:06:00+00:00By Carol Millett

Kuehne+Nagel has been appointed as Clarion Events’ official global logistics partner, with a brief to reduce the carbon footprint of the company’s exhibitions and set new standards for the events industry.

ArrowXL lands storage and delivery deal with AJ Products UK

2024-01-30T14:22:00+00:00By Carol Millett

Two-person home delivery specialist ArrowXL has been awarded a contract by workplace furniture and equipment supplier AJ Products UK to store and deliver over 800 orders a month to workplaces across Brtain.

Royal Mail loses out to Evri on multi-million pound delivery deal with Ann Summers

2024-01-29T13:15:00+00:00By Carol Millett

Royal Mail has been replaced by parcel delivery firm Evri on a “multi-million pound” delivery contract with lingerie and sex toy retailer Ann Summers, following a retendering process.

Suttons Tankers wins five-year extension to GreenChem AdBlue contract

2023-11-30T14:55:00+00:00By Carol Millett

Suttons Tankers has secured a five year extension to its contract with GreenChem to deliver its AdBlue product across the UK.

Zenith wins five year fleet management deal with Travis Perkins

2023-11-30T14:24:00+00:00By Carol Millett

Zenith has landed a five year fleet management contract with building materials giant Travis Perkins covering the group’s fleet of 1,600 HGVs, 800 vans, 300 cars, 250 moffetts and 250 trailers.

Foulger Transport inks distribution and customs clearance deal with French retailer Babymoov

2023-11-15T16:25:00+00:00

Kinaxia subsidiary Foulger Transport has sealed a deal to provide customs clearance, warehousing and distribution services across the UK to French baby product retailer Babymoov.

Wincanton lands Jet2 transport partnership deal

2023-10-24T12:18:00+01:00By Carol Millett

Supply chain specialist Wincanton has secured a contract to become Jet2.com’s dedicated transport partner.

GXO extends Waitrose delivery deal

2023-10-19T12:17:00+01:00By Chris Tindall

GXO Logistics said it had extended its contract to deliver produce into Waitrose stores across the UK.

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Opinion

AI in the world of logistics: How’s the future looking?

Logistics, especially heavy logistics, is still very old fashioned and hasn’t really embraced change. I always remember one of my first visits to a transport company more than 20 years ago, when we did a system upgrade and introduced the internet at the time when the depot was using modems.

The latest blow to fresh produce imports

The introduction of new fixed charges on imports of fresh produce and plants is yet another blow to the already fragile fresh produce sector which has already been hit by so many additional costs and challenges due to the post-Brexit border control plans.

A dedicated logistics minister would boost industry confidence

We talk a lot about collaboration at the RHA. Indeed, it’s one of the six defined values that our staff decided we should live by as a trade association, and we proudly hold ourselves to that standing commitment.

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