Sir Rod Eddington has called for the introduction of a road user charging scheme in his study: Transport’s role in sustaining UK’s Productivity and Competitiveness: The Case for Action.
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In a change from the usual value added services, Culina is fitting more than 220,000 tiny knitted hats to bottles of fruit smoothies as a part of Innocent Drink’s third annual Supergran campaign.
Book retailer The Works has implemented RedPrairie’s Workforce Management software in an effort to optimise labour management at its Sutton Coldfield distribution centre.
Renderplas has awarded a logistics contract to Meachers Group.
Metro, the German retail group, has launched an RFID project with Savi Networks under the title Advanced Logistics Asia.
Rentokil Initial, which owns express operator City Link, is buying Target Express for £210 million.
WT Sea-Air has opened a new 100,000 sq ft dedicated warehouse in Nottingham.
Just Vans (South West), a Frome-based Palletways member, has won a new £5m contract to deliver 8000 pallets a year to schools within a 75 mile radius of Frome.
The Potter Group has reported a growth in sales from £17.5m to £18.3m, with a net profit of £1.193m in the year ending 30 April 2006
From the beginning of 2007, Maersk Line is to charge an extra $300 for every container travelling from Europe to North America. Maersk said that it is no longer able to sustain rate levels due to increasing cost pressures.
