Werlte, Germany: Quadruplicate paper consignment notes to facilitate European-wide freight movement are a thing of the past, says Krone. They will be replaced by electronic forms developed in a partnership involving Krone. To illustrate the bureaucracy involved, Austrian international forwarder LKW Walter generated some six million paper pages. Max Birle, head of Krone telematics and …
Spelle, Germany: The Krone Group is introducing short-time working in its business due to the current economic climate. The first areas at sites in Lower Saxony have already gone into short-time working and other parts of the company are considering it due to “stagnating market expectations, particularly in the otherwise strong domestic market”, Krone said. …
Swords, Ireland: There is a growing need to address the global impact of food loss and the technologies and solutions required to reduce loss and waste across the food chain, says Trane Technologies. The company co-developed a round table event at the European Parliament on Advancing Food Loss Technologies and Policies. The round table, hosted …
Lydney, UK: Jones Food Company, which runs the world’s largest vertical farm, has installed Carrier AquaSnap air-cooled scroll chillers to provide cooling and heating. The vertical farm, the size of seventy tennis courts, has 148,000sq feet of growing space for stacking crops 15 layers high, and is expected to supply 1,000 tonnes of fresh produce …
Sutterton, UK: South Lincs Foodservice has taken delivery of two new trucks with Carrier Transicold Supra 1150 MT units and the company’s first-ever purchase of Eco-Drive systems. This combination allows the units to run via their diesel engine, or electrically from power derived from the truck engine itself, creating a hybrid configuration that will help …
St. Gallen, Switzerland: The Swiss InterRail Group has added temperature-controlled rail transport to its regular range of services this year after successfully carrying out its first reefer container transport between Asia and Europe in 2023. InterRail uses diesel-powered 45-foot pallet wide reefer containers on the route between Europe and Asia, which can cool or heat …
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA: Logistics giant GXO, which has multiple supermarket contracts in the UK, has reported a turnover of $9.8bn in 2023 – up from $9bn in 2022. Operating income jumped from $242m in 2022 to $318m while net income increased to $229m, compared with $197m for 2022. GXO chief executive Malcolm Wilson, said: “In …
Atherstone, UK: Discount retailer Aldi is set to invest over £550m in expanding and improving its store and distribution network during 2024. This includes plans to upgrade distribution centres to support growth. Aldi says it will create over 1,500 new jobs, including roles at regional distribution centres. Aldi currently has more than 1,000 stores across …
Bedford, UK: AF Blakemore & Son, a main Spar wholesaler in the Midlands and Wales, has added two electric Volvo FM tractors to its fleet. The Volvo FM Electric trucks have regenerative braking, and haul fridge trailers powered by biofuel supplied by Certas and produced from renewable sources. This offers a significant reduction in greenhouse …
London, UK: Truck fridges can produce as much as double the Nox emissions, five times the particulates, and up to four hundred times the particle number compared with emissions from the truck exhaust of a Euro 5 engine, according to a new report from Zemo Partnership. Zemo’s study, covers results from the first phase of …
Belfast, Northern Ireland: Darryl Morgan, former director of Morgan Transport, has joined Hultsteins to help introduce the company’s Ecogen system to temperature-controlled operators in Ireland. “I am delighted to be to be playing a part in the market development of this innovative alternative to diesel-powered refrigeration,” Morgan said. “I was impressed with this system from …
Dover, UK: The Port of Dover could become a target for criminals smuggling illegal and diseased meat into the country under new post-Brexit plans the port’s health authority has warned. From April, under the new regulations, trucks will be checked but not at port, at Sevington, Ashford some miles away. The Dover Port Health Authority …
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