Birmingham, UK: Petit Forestier is to offer refrigerated versions of the Volta Zero in the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Poland. Petit Forestier will become Volta’s rental and leasing partner for the refrigerated version of the all-electric 16-tonne and 18-tonne Volta Zero. Essa Al-Saleh, chief executive, Volta Trucks, said; “Our …
Reading, UK: Tower Cold Chain has received the King’s Award for Enterprise, in the Innovation category. The award recognises Tower’s KTM container – a thermally insulated passive pallet shipping system, with modular construction design. Tower demonstrated outstanding commercial success over two years with the KTM, is a revolutionary contributor to the pharmaceutical logistics market, Tower …
Easton, Lincolnshire: Magnavale is investing £130m on its new cold storage development in Easton, Lincolnshire. The company says the site will be “Europe’s most efficient temperature-controlled storage facility”. Magnavale says it has achieved many of its development milestones since breaking ground in September 2022 and some of the aspects of the project have already been …
London, UK: More than 40% of logistics companies are offering workers flexible hours in a bid to retain and attract new staff, according to temporary work recruitment agency Indeed Flex. Two in five logistics companies say their biggest staffing challenge is ensuring they have enough workers for each shift. Since 2019 there has been a …
Grimsby, UK: Constellation Cold Logistics is renaming all its subsidiary companies with the Constellation brand. In the UK, HSH Cold Stores, which acquired ACS&T early this year, will now be known as Constellation Cold Logistics UK. Anthony Howard, managing director, HSH, now Constellation Cold Logistics UK, said: “We are still the same team offering the …
London, UK: Fruit exports fell from £248.5m to £113.8m in the year to March 2023, according to the latest data released by HMRC. Brexit is to blame in the form of mandatory health certificates on fresh and chilled food and customs paperwork. Similar barriers have yet to be introduced on imports to the UK, prompting …
Nottingham, UK: University of Nottingham researchers have worked with key operators in the UK food transport industry on the design of hydrogen-powered refrigerated vehicles as part of a £1m project. Academics from Nottingham University Business School interviewed fresh and frozen food logistics companies, supermarkets and food manufacturers to identify barriers to using hydrogen technology in …
Darlington, UK: Northgate Vehicle Hire has entered the chilled and freezer van rental sector with the acquisition of FridgeXpress. Northgate bought the Rugby-based business which provides specialist refrigerated vehicles to UK commercial customers. FridgeXpress has over 600 chilled and freezer vans and trailers and more than 100 UK principally in the pharmaceutical and food sectors. …
Willenhall, UK: Moran Logistics has ordered 15 Scania compressed natural gas-powered trucks. Keltruck will supply the trucks next year, adding to Moran’s first order of two CNG vehicles which went on the road in 2021. The gas-powered trucks are used on Lidl contracts, initially purchased as a trial, but Moran has now placed this new …
Farnborough, UK: Mercedes-Benz Trucks launched a fridge-bodied eActros electric truck at the ITT Hub this week. The Solomon Commercials bodied truck has a Carrier Transicold Syberia overcab fridge and Carrier’s Datacold temperature monitoring. The 19-tonne 4×2 E-Actros 300 has three battery packs with a total capacity of 336kWh to give a range of up to 200 miles …
GXO Logistics has revealed that the deal it secured with Sainsbury’s in April to run warehouses for fresh and frozen goods is the largest annual revenue contract awarded in the company’s history. Malcolm Wilson, chief executive of GXO, said: “Our new project with Sainsbury’s, a leading grocery retailer in the UK, represents nearly $1 billion …
London, UK: Lack of financial support and a poor public charging network are undermining operator confidence to invest in electric vehicles, says Logistics UK. Logistics UK’s Electric Vehicle Report 2023, published today shows that while the majority of the businesses surveyed plan to have decarbonised their van fleets by 2030, significant barriers remain that prevent …
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