All Operator news articles – Page 321

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    DHL expands Unilever warehousing capacity

    2012-03-14T11:08:00Z

    DHL Supply Chain has opened its expanded capacity warehouse for long-term customer Unilever, marking the end of a 21 month project.The Cannock, Staffordshire, centre has the capacity to house 100,000 pallets and will handle all of Unilever’s homecare and ambient food lines for the UK and Ireland – including brands ...

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    Culina shortens Tesco's ambient supply chain

    2012-03-13T16:12:00Z

    Culina Logistics has shortened ambient supply chains for supermarket giant Tesco, with the roll-out of a new 'Day 1 for Day 2' delivery service.The logistics firm will consolidate suppliers’ deliveries at its multi-user facility in Wolverhampton, for onward trunking to Tesco’s NDC network on a six-day Monday to Saturday cycle.Culina ...

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    News extra: Kuehne + Nagel on growth track

    2012-03-13T11:29:00Z

    International Swiss-based freight and logistics business Kuehne + Nagel reaped the benefits of its long term growth strategy with record results in the 12 months to 31 December 2011.Globally, K+N saw net profit rise to CHF606m (£421m) on turnover of CHF19.6bn (£13.6bn), increases of 12.2% and 9% respectively after the ...

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    United Biscuits drivers complete CPC training

    2012-03-12T15:44:00Z

    All 68 drivers at United Biscuits have now successfully completed their final 7.5 hours of Driver CPC training.Bill Hooton, national transport controller at United Biscuits, says he is “delighted and proud” that all drivers have completed their CPCs. “We are committed to ongoing annual training and recognise the benefits, as ...

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    TDG buy puts ND UK logistics in top spot

    2012-03-12T15:33:00Z

    The head of Norbert Dentressangle’s (ND) UK logistics believes 2012 will see the operation cement its number one spot in ND’s overall international operations as the business shifts into another gear following the integration of TDG.In ND’s latest results, the UK outperformed all other countries to become its logisitic division’s ...

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    Reed Boardall has right price for Asda

    2012-03-12T15:17:00Z

    The distinctive happy surfing polar bear adorning the sides of Reed Boardall Transport’s temperature controlled trailers had extra cause for celebration on Friday (9 March) as the company’s MD Tom Cassells was kept busy collecting accolades at the Asda Carrier of the Year awards.A sell-out audience at Leeds’ Queens Hotel ...

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    Maritime Transport appoints two new MDs

    2012-03-12T10:25:00Z

    Maritime Transport has created two new director positions to handle distribution and container transport at the firm.Simon Smart and David Boomer, both previously operations directors at the firm, have become MD, container transport and MD, containers respectively.Maritime says the appointments were required to strengthen senior management at the firm and ...

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    Strong performance from the UK buoys Ceva profit

    2012-03-09T11:21:00Z

    Ceva has singled out the performance of its business in the UK for having a "very strong year" in 2011 after the Netherlands-based logistics giant revealed a 10% rise in profit.Speaking to MT.co.uk, Leigh Pomlett, president for Northern Europe at Ceva, singled out delivery from the UK and Poland as ...

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    City Link unveils recovery plan

    2012-03-09T11:02:00Z

    City Link’s new MD has put in place a three-year turnaround strategy at the struggling parcels business in the wake of “disappointing” losses.The plan will see City Link break-even within the next four months, make a profit by Q4, and become a £500m business in the next three years, through ...

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    K+N wins Spirit food service contract

    2012-03-07T13:16:00Z

    Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) is to invest £5m in multi-temperature distribution centres and a fleet of 60 vehicles for a long term new food service customer, Spirit Pub Company. K+N sees food service as a significant growth market, already representing £50m of its UK contract logistics business, much of ...

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    City Link losses plummet to £31.3m

    2012-03-02T10:16:00Z

    City Link parent Rentokil has blamed a decline in both volumes and rates for the parcel firm’s “disappointing” £31.3m pre-tax loss during 2011, compared with a £9.6m loss the previous year, on a revenue down 8.5% to £306.9m.It has also revealed a significant hit from writing off intangible assets of ...

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    Yodel confirms depot closures

    2012-02-23T15:48:00Z

    Yodel has confirmed the schedule of its service centre closure programme, as it enters the final phase of the merger of the Home Delivery Network and DHL Domestic UK businesses.According to an internal letter seen by MT, the parcels giant has been transferring volumes across from Cardiff (the first site ...

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    Stobart and AW Jenkinson buy another 1,000 Scanias

    2012-02-23T15:46:00Z

    Stobart Group and A.W. Jenkinson Forest Products have struck a second joint procurement deal with Scania to take delivery of a combined 1,000 trucks over the next two years.Between March 2012 and December 2013 Stobart and A.W. Jenkinson will take a mixture of R-series and G-series models. The first 300 ...

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    ND enjoys a good cuppa

    2012-02-23T15:39:00Z

    Norbert Dentressangle (ND) has won a three-year contract with Tata Global Beverages for the UK storage and distribution of Tetley teas, with its shared-user network cited as a major factor in clinching the deal.The contract will see ND relocate the warehousing from the current Tetley warehouse at Newton Aycliffe, County ...

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    Harlequin picks up Kellogg’s

    2012-02-23T15:38:00Z

    Haulage consortium Harlequin Logistics has injected some snap, crackle and pop into its five members after revealing that its first contract has been signed with Kellogg’s.Harlequin will deliver some 15,000 Kellogg’s loads per year from the cereal manufacturers depot in Manchester to retailers’ RDCs, wholesalers and cash and carry ...

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    DPD goes carbon neutral

    2012-02-23T15:33:00Z

    B2C parcel giant DPD says it is enhancing its green credentials by providing carbon neutral shipping from its five major European markets at no extra cost to the customer.The initiative, badged Total Zero, will see the company build on measures to reduce its carbon footprint as well as buy carbon ...

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    Co-op takes delivery of 330 Carrier Transicold units

    2012-02-23T15:29:00Z

    The Co-operative Group has taken delivery of 330 new Carrier Transicold refrigeration units to coincide with the final stage of development at its RDC in Andover, Hampshire.The order includes 171 Supra 950 multi-temperature systems mounted to 18- and 26-tonne Scania rigids, and 159 Vector 1850 units fitted to Gray & ...

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    Carlson buys car transporter assets

    2012-02-23T15:27:00Z

    Carlson Vehicle Transfer, part of Groupe Cat, has bought some of the remaining assets of Quantum Automotive out of administration.Quantum appointed administrators Simon Plant and Daniel Plant of SFP on 31 January just days before the assets of sister-firm Sensible Transport were acquired by Autologic after it fell into administration ...

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    Bow moves to UPN

    2012-02-23T15:15:00Z

    Derbyshire’s Bow Distribution has moved from UK Pallets to the United Pallet Network (UPN), ending an eight-year relationship with its former network.Bow made the switch last month and is covering the same DE postcode for UPN. It has been replaced at UK Pallets by Allegro Transport.Andy Bowd, chairman at Bow ...

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    Isuzu Truck (UK) expands dealer network with Commercial Motors (Wales) in Newport

    2012-02-13T09:03:00Z

    Isuzu Truck (UK) expands dealer network with Commercial Motors (Wales) in Newport.