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 …
Ellington, Cambridgeshire, UK: Buffaload Logistics is celebrating the arrival of its 300th trailer. Managing director Julie Feltwell (pictured) said that the 100th trailer arrived in 2015 and the company’s 300th milestone trailer has just joined the fleet, in May 2023. “We are so proud of our continued growth,” the company said in a Tweet.
London, UK: Warehouse workers at Lidl are to receive their third pay increase in the last 12 months with rates of up to £13.15 an hour. The discount retailer says its entry level pay is now up to 16% higher than traditional and premium priced supermarkets. Both warehouse and store workers outside the M25 will …
Newton Abbot, UK: Food wholesaler R D Johns has a new distribution centre built by ISD Solutions. The bespoke building is an eco-friendly Dutch Barn design, an increasingly popular type of coldstore constructed from a single layer or composite panels at low level providing the thermal and vapour barrier requirements with an internal ceiling and …
Brussels, Belgium: Thermo King has a new BlueBox Lite telematics system for vehicle-powered refrigeration units. It provides temperature and position data, and other critical information from the vehicle-powered fridge, such as like setpoints, alarms or hours of operation. BlueBox Lite has 4G connection allowing customers to access the data through the Thermo King TracKing website, …
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 …
London, UK: Logistics UK has called for certainty for business as MPs debate the Retained EU Law bill in the House of Commons today. Logistics UK’s policy director, Kate Jennings, said: “Our members need certainty over the terms under which they trade, and while the government’s recent changes to the Retained EU Law Bill provide …
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 …
Gaydon, UK: Logistics UK’s Fleet Engineer conference takes place the British Motor Museum in Warwickshire on 22 June 2023. The one-day conference is sponsored by Gray & Adams, and includes insight from manufacturers, industry leaders and government. Sessions will include presentations from traffic commissioner Kevin Rooney, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and the Health and …
Stoneleigh, UK: Hultsteins is showing its Ecogen Cost Saver fitted to a Buffaload Volvo LNG gas tractor unit at this year’s Road Transport Expo 2023. Ecogen is an electric-hydraulic drive system that transforms diesel fridge units into electric operation when coupled to the tractor using an engine PTO to generate electricity to run the fridge. …
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 …
Redditch, UK: Oakland International has fitted Carrier Transicold’s Eco-Drive power supply to all its tractors. Carrier Transicold’s Eco-Drive units have been retrofitted to Oakland’s Renault tractors, and mounted to new vehicles entering the fleet. The system uses a hydraulic pump on the truck engine’s power take-off to drive a generator that delivers the electrical power …
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