Whitchurch, UK: Shropshire County Council have approved plans to convert a warehouse near Whitchurch into a cafe and museum dedicated to temperature-controlled operator Grocontinental.and its founder Ray Grocott. According to the BBC, Grocott Developments Limited started work on the site in Brookdale, near Whitchurch, in October last year, and had applied for retrospective planning permission. …
Lisburn, Northern Ireland: McCulla Ireland has taken 33 Schmitz Cargobull SKO Cool Smart trailers. The trailers have Schmitz Cargobull’s TrailerConnect telematics and a double deck loading beam to carry 66 pallets. Brian Beattie, operations director, McCulla Ireland, said: “We took our first two semi-trailers from Schmitz Cargobull in 2008 having been exclusively with another manufacturer …
London, UK: The new post-Brexit physical checks on imported goods have not gone well for flower importers, according to Ian Shuttlewood, director, PML Seafrigo. “From what we’re hearing, there have been slightly more flower checks than was expected. A lot of the big nurseries had been able to do checks at their own premises, which …
Grimsby, UK: Andy Driscoll has been appointed chief financial officer at Constellation Cold Logistics . In former posts he helped to establish and grow the Valeo Foods Group Snackfoods Division, where he had overall responsibility for finance, IT and supply chain functions. Previous positions include roles at Kettle Foods, Heinz and Nokia Siemens Networks in …
Fraserburgh, Scotland: Eden Farm Hulleys, part of the Kitwave Group, distributes frozen food, ice cream and chilled products to wholesalers from eight depots using 190 vehicles. The Eden Farm Hulleys relationship with Gray & Adams started7 years ago with 18 refrigerated HGV bodies and seven trailers. Eden Farm commissioned two bespoke double-deck lifting deck trailers …
Reading, UK: Sunswap solar power system for reefers has been recognised with several awards. The most recent was for Transport, Logistics and Supply Chain at Innovation Zero. The award highlighted the success of Sunswap’s Endurance in 22 customer fleets demonstrating the systems ability to meet operational needs while delivering zero emissions and financial benefits, Sunswap …
Preston, UK: Huntapac has 22 new Thermo King A400 Advancer fridges supplied by Marshall Fleet Solutions as replacement units. Joanne Cleece, head of transport, Huntapac said, “Whilst we did look at other options, we knew we wanted to replace our old units with Advancer units. The first five Advancer units we ordered outperformed our existing …
Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales: Harlech Foodservice is adding six new rigid trucks to its fleet and expanding its refrigerated storage at its Gwynedd headquarters. It is expanding its business into south and west Wales with new depots at Merthyr and Carmarthen. The company says it is aiming to achieve net zero by 2050. It says it …
London, UK: Maritime Transport has 18 battery-electric, 42-tonne tractor units plus and hydrogen fuel cell trucks. The zero-emission trucks, supplied by Scania, Renault Trucks, and Daf, will be integrated in Maritime’s fleet as part of the eFreight 2030 consortium, led by Voltempo. The consortium is one of four selected to join Zehid and is part-funded …
Tønsberg, Norway: Constellation Cold Logistics has opened a 13,000-pallet cold store in Tønsberg, Norway. Construction was completed earlier this month, and the site is already filling. Tønsberg is Constellation’s third site in Norway. “Its strategic placement along the E18 route links the facility to the capital of Oslo as well as the west coast of …
Coaldale, Alberta, Canada: NewCold, is investing $222m on an automated cold store in Coaldale, Alberta, due to open next year. NewCold’s warehouse will use proprietary software and technology to ensure food safety and quality, while being 50% more energy efficient than traditional cold stores, the company says. NewCold will also invest in improving Canadian Pacific …
McDonough, Georgia, USA: NewCold’s automated warehouse in McDonough, Georgia is now operational handling products for Conagra Brands food company. Jonas Swarttouw, chairman, North America, NewCold said: “Going live with our dry goods high-bay warehouse also marks a new era in NewCold’s US presence as an innovator of multi-temperature, end-to-end food logistics solutions.” “Conagra is pleased …
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