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High-Wycombe based 3PL Synergix has installed a transport management system (TMS) from Mandata, in a move it says has already achieved labour savings across the business. Synergix is starting with some 30 vehicles, to provide a next-day and nightly groupage, and full and part-load services from Greater London and the Midlands. Anthony Champness, co-director of…
Online craft beer company Flavourly has taken a 17,445 sq ft warehouse at Glasgow Airport Business Park for expansion. Flavourly said it had been extremely busy during lockdown as brewers seek alternative ways to secure sales with pubs and restaurants closed. The refurbished unit is owned by Squarestone Growth and was viewed remotely and let…
UPN has partnered with Trafertir Group to provide a range of palletised freight distribution services to Spain and Portugal. David Brown, MD at UPN, said: “Both Spain and Portugal have strong trading links with the UK and this new partnership with Trafertir brings increased route capacity, competitive pricing and excellent services. “As we enter into…
Waitrose is to open its third online fulfilment centre in London, adding Greenford in the west of the city to existing sites in Couldson in the south and Enfield in the north. As part of an initial five-year contract, Wincanton will develop and operate the fulfilment centre, in a move Wincanton calls a ‘first’ for…
7Bridges, the artificial intelligence-based software provider for supply chains, has raised $3.4 million (£2.7 million) in seed funding as it looks to expand. The London-based technology supplier is backed by Crane Venture Partners and LocalGlobe and was co-founded in 2016 by Philip Ashton and Matei Beremski. It describes its technology as providing solutions for auditing…
Logistics developer Tritax Symmetry is going net carbon zero from July. The developer announced that all new developments within its portfolio will be constructed to net zero carbon in construction in line with the UK Green Building Council’s (UKGBC) Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework. This follows a 12-month study, working with parent company Tritax Big…
Tesco is targeting the development of “at least” 25 urban fulfilment centres (UFCs) to drive its boom in online grocery deliveries, which now account for 16% of its total sales. Reporting its first quarter trading today the largest supermarket in the UK by market share said that in just five weeks it doubled its online…
SABIC Europe has awarded 3PL Abbey Logistics a plastic distribution contract to transport bulk polymer granules throughout the UK. The company has secured a bulk polymer distribution contract with Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Europe. As part of the contract, Abbey Logistics will provide bulk polymer granule distribution services throughout the UK, using its fleet…
In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic GAMA Healthcare, provider of clinical wipes, has changed its supply chain, onboarded new factories and provided products direct to the NHS, care-homes and frontline workers, to combat the spread of the disease. Dr Allen Hanouka, managing director and co-founder, told Logistics Manager: “The demand we are seeing is…
Europa Warehouse has packaged and despatched over 5 million Covid-19 test kit bags on behalf of Southgate Packaging since the start of the pandemic and continues to issue 100,000 tests a week. Southgate designed the self-seal bag for the testing kits so that once the test is complete, the bag can be resealed to minimise…
Digital twinning technology deployed by Unipart Logistics been at the heart of a custom-built warehouse development for NHS Supply Chain in East Anglia. NHS Supply Chain Suffolk Park, a custom-built regional distribution centre (RDC) located in Bury St Edmunds and operated by Unipart Logistics, opened as planned on Wednesday 27 May 2020. Spanning 147,000 sq…
UPS, Sealed Air (SEE), Smurfit Kappa and Macfarlane Packaging have launched a new range of packaging specially designed for shipping individual bottles of spirits and wine in the UK and Ireland. Alcohol sales in the UK and Ireland have doubled during the pandemic. Mark Vale, president of UPS UK & Ireland, said: “E-commerce presents a…
Icon Industrial is looking to start construction of the larger of the two facilities it secured planning for in April this year at its World Logistics Hub at Manchester Airport. Two schemes were proposed on the same plot and both secured planning on the 18.8 site and it seems as if the larger of the…
Manufacturer and supplier of films, tapes and membranes to manufacturers, installers and contractors, Obex Protection has taken a warehouse at St. Modwen Nunnery Park industrial and logistics development in Worcester in just three week. The 27,000 sq ft unit has been taken to aid expansion for the ten year old company. The letting is the…
ParcelHero has said that the government’s easing of the two metre rule will not “trigger significant alterations to doorstep deliveries”. The company has said that the front door will remain the “frontline in the fight against Coronavirus”, after the government announced a relaxation of the two metre rule to “1m+”, effective 4 July. However, ParcelHero…
DHL Supply Chain and Blue Yonder have deployed a platform for the integration of warehouse robots built on Microsoft Azure. The ‘Plug and play” robotics platform has been designed to reduce integration time and programming efforts to on-board new automation devices into warehouse facilities. It will also allow DHL customers the ability to select suitable…
More than 11 million sq ft of logistics floor space in schemes and individual developments have been put forward to councils nationwide in the first five months of the year, according to government’s Planning Portal. In its latest Planning Market Insider Report the Planning Portal looked at online planning applications across the first five months…
Duties, tariffs, HTS codes, and multiple customs regimes, languages, and borders. How do complex companies with global supply chains manage the requirements and mitigate the risk? Shippers, logistics companies, forwarders, customs brokers, and global manufacturers around the world trust BluJay’s Customs Management for frictionless movement of goods and worry-free compliance. With a single Customs Management…
A third (33%) of supply chain leaders have moved sourcing and manufacturing activities out of China, or plan to do so in the next two to three years, according to a survey by Gartner. But the Covid-19 pandemic is just one of several reasons why global supply chains are moving activities out of China, with…
DPD is to conduct a series of road trials with the London EV Company (LEVC) as it looks to further electrify its fleet. Trials will revolve around the VN5 electric van, a 2.5 tonne with a fully electric powertrain with an EV range of 63 miles, and a total flexible range of over 300 miles….
CM Downton, part of EV Cargo, has won four new contract extensions across the paper, cardboard, and sustainable packaging industries. Gloucestershire-based Downton, now part of EV Cargo’s Logistics division, has sealed distribution agreements with Saica Pack, Stora Enso, and SCA. Continuing its contract with Saica Pack, Downton will deliver paper reels to the Newport-based manufacturing…
Parcel delivery firm Hermes is opening ten new depots in response to continued growing demand for online shopping since lockdown began.In September Hermes completed the construction of a third sortation tier at its fully automated Midlands hub in Rugby. Totalling 564,166 sq ft of warehouse and distribution space, the ten locations include a new depot…
Amazon is believed to have taken Panattoni’s 500,000 sq ft plus speculative warehouse at Panattoni Park Nottingham in the East Midlands. The 551,031 sq ft cross dock unit on the 55-acre scheme sits on a self-contained 24-acre plot with direct access to the M1 motorway at junction 26 via the A610 dual carriageway. It has…
Pall-Ex has appointed former Palletways network development director Michelle Naylor as it commercial director. Barry Byers, managing director UK at Pall-Ex Group, said: “Michelle is a driven leader with a focus on high standards of service, which makes her a great fit for Pall-Ex and our quality ethos. “Recent weeks have been incredibly tough on…
UPS subsidiary Polar Speed is set to open a new distribution hub in the Midlands to facilitate growth. The new hub is part of a global expansion by UPS Healthcare that will see a new facility in Shanghai and up to 1.5 million sq ft of good manufacturing practices (GMP) distribution space for coronavirus-related shipments….
He spoke to Logistics Manager about judging entries for the awards, which takes place on 12 November at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Why did you choose to be a judge at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2020? Spittle: “I have been engaged as a judge of these awards for a number of years and…
International technology distributor Westcon-Comstor has said that partnership and collaboration will be at the heart of supply chains recovering from the impact of Covid-19 The distributor, which carriers vendors such as Cisco, Avaya and Mitel, said that supply chains would need to be “agile, flexible and adaptable” as recovery from the pandemic took place. Kevin…
The Covid-19 crisis seems to be rewarding those who are brave, those who think beyond the traditional constraints of business as usual, those who are adapting business models and processes to reflect a new reality. But it’s not radical enough.., it’s time to embrace further change. Who has seen those posts from wags on social…
US 3PL and freight forwarding giant C.H. Robinson has said it is targeting the UK for growth. In 2019 NASDAQ-listed C.H.Robinson posted a turnover of $15.3 billion (£12.2 billion), down 7.9% year-on-year – while, according to Companies House, its UK subsidiary C.H. Robison Worldwide (UK) posted a turnover of £11.5 million in 2018. However the…
Supermarket Waitrose has processed 150,000 online orders in a week for the first time, more than double the amount of weekly orders at the start of 2020. Given the combination of its deal with Ocado ending in September, and the increase in online grocery shopping during lockdown Waitrose has been scaling up its operations since…
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