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Hermes has given all its employees personalised email addresses to coincide the with launch of its online training platform, named myJourney. Email addresses have been created for those employees who did not traditionally need access to a work account, such as HGV drivers and those colleagues that work across the company’s network of hubs and…
Menzies Aviation, has acquired GTO Global Logistics Inc, a Vancouver-based logistics services provider. GTO provides airfreight, ocean LCL, domestic and cross-border road services, storage and customs brokerage. The business will be integrated into the Air Menzies International (AMI) division, which provides wholesale airfreight and express services to freight forwarders, packaging companies, customs brokers and courier agents….
Dounreay and its partners are holding a supply chain event for companies to find out more about the site’s recently awarded Decommissioning Services Framework. The event will be held on 5th September in Wick, Caithness. Six framework contracts were awarded to organisations earlier this year to deliver a number of construction, demolition and engineering projects. The…
Turners (Soham) has bought 80 per cent of the shares in fellow East Anglian haulier Jack Richards and Son, creating a business with projected sales of £475 million in 2019. The deal will create a business with a combined fleet of more than 2,200 units and 3,700 trailers operating from 38 sites in the UK….
IBM and Chainyard have launched a blockchain network, Trust Your Supplier, designed to improve supplier qualification, validation, on-boarding and life cycle information management. Founding participants are: Anheuser-Busch InBev, Cisco, GlaxoSmithKline, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric and Vodafone. The aim is to eliminate manual processes, which make it difficult to verify identities and track documents like ISO…
Arco, the supplier of safety equipment and services, has renewed its less-than-truckload distribution contract with XPO Logistics. Neil Griffiths, divisional director of logistics, Arco, said: “We have seen a continuous improvement in distribution performance over the two years of our partnership with XPO. This has helped us strengthen our supply chain relationships at all levels….
A project to deliver goods that have been ordered online to parked cars is being extended to Berlin following a successful trial. The project, named chark, is organised by Lab 1886, part of Daimler and is open to drivers of recent models of Mercedes-Benz cars.. Under er the chark scheme, the user temporarily gives the…
Purplegator, a US mobile marketing specialist, is launching in the UK to help recruiters hire HGV drivers. It uses geo-targeting methods to target client audiences. “Purplegator connect professional recruiters with experienced drivers,” said Marc Jarrett, who is helping the Company expand their UK presence. “Social media marketing is the leading way to reach a target…
Lucozade Ribena Suntory and marketing firm TRO have chosen Fresh Logistics to assist with the launch of a range of fruit infused water products, named Ribena Frusion. The campaign will involve storing, picking, transporting and handing out 567,000 chilled bottles. Fresh Logistics will hold product at three temperature controlled warehouses and use a fleet of…
Supply chain shortages in North America have done little to dent sales growth at adidas in the first half. Overall group revenue for the first half rose five per cent to €11.4 billion while operating profit was up 13 per cent to €1.5bn. In March, the company warned that it would not be able to…
Daimler Trucks is trialling technology that will give a truck its own digital identity allowing it to make automatic payments, for example at electric charging stations. It has developed a digital Truck-ID system and associated Truck Wallet. Trucks can identify themselves to other machines using their Truck-ID as if they had their own integrated ID card…
DSV says it has now received acceptances for 97.98 per cent of Panalpina’s shares in its takeover bid for the company. It expects to publish the definitive notice of the final result of the offer on 13th August 13, and the settlement is expected to occur on 19th August. DSV launched its bid for Panalpina…
Gousto, the London-based provider of dinner kits, has chosen the JDA Dispatcher warehouse management system to support its operations. The company has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2012 and now serves nearly two million meals per month. “With 40 different recipes each week, 60 ingredients per box and thousands of individual customer orders,…
Archis Scaffolding has awarded a £5 million contract to Apex Logistics Solutions, for storage and distribution of scaffolding equipment over the next five years. “We needed a supplier with the technical expertise to manage the flow of materials across our supply chain,” said Matthew Warner, chief executive of Archis Scaffolding Solutions. “We have complex requirements,…
John Wiley’s 298,600 sq ft warehouse in Bognor Regis has been sold to LondonMetric Property for £17.8 million. Wiley serves multiple publishers from the site, which serves as an automated distribution facility, and will continue to expand on that enterprise going forward. The building is let for a further two years at a rent of…
Jaguar Land Rover has renewed its packing services contract with Unipart for four years. The operation packs around 800,000 parts every month prior to them being put into storage and distributed across the Jaguar Land Rover global network. Unipart employs about 100 people at its sites at Honeybourne in Worcestershire and Baginton in Coventry. Unipart…
DHL Supply Chain is investing £90 million to put more than 1,000 new vehicles on the road in 2019 to support the growth of a number of networks. The investment covers tractor units, specialised rigids and temperature-controlled vehicles. A number of them will run on liquefied natural gas. The company believes that transport is moving…
The Food & Drink Federation, which represents 7,000 food manufacturers, has called on the government to allow companies to co-operate to tackle food shortages in the event of an no-deal Brexit. The planned Brexit day, 31st October, comes at a time of the year when the UK imports a lot of food so any disruption…
Demand for air freight fell 4.8 per cent in June compared to a year earlier, according to the International Air Transport Association. This is the eighth consecutive month of year-on-year decline in freight volumes, measure in freight tonne kilometres. Europe was down 3.6 per cent, North America was down 4.6 per cent and Asia Pacific…
A third of logistics companies reckon they will make an acquisition in the next 12 months, a survey by accountants BDO has found. It said that merger and acquisition activity in the first half was strong with 32 deals completed. The first quarter alone was the most active in the four-year period reviewed. Freight logistics…
Two Volvo FMX six-by-six rigids have gone into operation 460 metres under ground in a salt mine run by Irish Salt Mining & Exploration. The trucks are being used to bring one tonne bags of ballast into the salt mine, as part of a permanent stability operation. Each FMX can carry 12 tonnes and the…
Restructuring costs in DHL Supply Chain held back Deutsche Post DHL’s growth in operating profit in the second quarter, which was up 2.9 per cent at €769 million, the group said in its quarterly results. Group revenue was up three per cent to €15.5 billion for the second quarter. “Our business developed as planned in…
Wholesaler Cotswold Fayre has chosen Geodis to manage warehousing and distribution to retailers across the UK, in a move which chief executive Paul Hargreaves says will make its ambient distribution carbon neutral. Geodis has been delivering Cotswold Fayre’s shipments to 1,750 retailers since March, and from August will provide a complete supplier to retailer logistics…
A rail service between Tilbury and Grangemouth is to be made permanent following trials last month. The service run by Forth Ports in partnership with Direct Rail Services and Eddie Stobart, provides a regular weekend link. The trains have a capacity of 36 containers. Containers travelling from Tilbury will carry cargo including retail goods, food…
The shortlist for the 2019 Supply Chain Excellence Awards has been unveiled with entries coming in from a host of world-leading retailers and manufacturers. Since they were launched in 1997 the Awards have become the benchmark for supply chain best practice, attracting entries not only from the UK and Europe but all around the world….
The shortlist for the Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2019 has just been revealed – and it makes impressive reading. This year we received more than 130 entries from major retailers and manufacturers, not just in the UK, but from all around the world. The Awards have grown continuously since they were launched in 1997 to…
Tesco is simplifying operational processes at its 153 Metro stores to provide faster and simpler ways of filling shelves, with fewer products stored in back rooms and more stock going straight to the shop floor. It expects the changes to result in a reduction of 4,500 staff. There will also be some localised changes in…
Lorry drivers are some of the most at risk of fatal electric shocks from overhead power lines, accounting for a quarter of fatalities, research by the Energy Networks Association has revealed. On average, one person dies or is injured each month as a result of contact with overhead power lines. The research found that the…
XPO’s operating profit rose 5.7 per cent in the first half of 2019 to $390 million, despite a 2.3 per cent fall in revenue to $8.4 billion. For the second quarter alone revenue was down 2.9 per cent to $4.2 billion, while operating profit was up 13 per cent to $258m. The company’s logistics segment…
Van registrations were up nine per cent to 222,280 units in the first seven months of 2019, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. The strongest performance came in the 2.5-3.5 tonne sector which was up 12 per cent to 139,704. SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said: “Another month of growth for the…
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