Newhouse, Scotland: Sysco GB is expanding its Newhouse site. The £15m investment will create around 100 new jobs and expands the site by more than 25%. The site’s expansion will allow Sysco to increase the amount of locally sourced Scottish products, it says. Te Newhouse site will grow to more than 200,000 sq feet once …
London, UK: Urgent action is required to electrify the HGV sector in the UK in order to meet net zero targets for transport, according to a new report from the Green Finance Institute. The report, Delivering Net Zero: Unlocking Public and Private Capital for Zero Emission Trucks, urges collaboration between the government, industry and private …
Munich, Germany: Customers using Idem telematics now have access to all data from Thermo King fridges and BPW AxlePower energy generators..The three companies collaborate to share data with customers to provide better visibility of their refrigeration systems, tractors and trailers regardless of their preferred platform. Thermo King’s TracKing e-Vision solution provides customers with insights on …
London, UK: Volta Trucks, which filed for bankruptcy in Sweden where it is based, has been bought out of administration by one of its biggest creditors. Sky News revealed a week ago that Luxor Capital Group, a shareholder and lender to Volta, was in advanced talks with the company’s administrators. Volta, which has prototype elecric trucks …
Werlte, Germany: Krone has won the European Transport Prize for Sustainability 2024 in the Telematics and Automation category. Krone won this year’s competition with its AI- based Krone Smart Capacity Management loading space recognition system, which detects and utilises free loading capacity. The intelligent system enables better use of capacity, saves empty running and thus …
London, UK: Nearly two million workers in Great Britain suffered from work-related ill health in the financial year 2022/23, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). According to the HSE’s data, 1.8 million workers reported experiencing work-related ill health during the period. Of these cases, around half were attributed to stress, depression, or anxiety. …
Every year in the UK, billions of litres of drinking water are wasted as businesses are forced to test their fire suppression systems weekly, without a need to capture the water pumped through the pipes and down the drain. Alpine Fire, one of the UK’s leading specialist providers in the design and maintenance of active …
Nairobi, Kenya: A new temperature-controlled distribution centre for food and pharmaceuticals is to open in Nairobi. The site covers 17,700sq meters and can accommodate up to 18,000 pallets serving horticulture, meat, poultry, and seafood, as well as food manufacturing, supermarkets, quick-service restaurants/hotels, and pharmaceuticals. Funding for the site is by the Arch Cold Chain Solutions …
Novi, Michigan, USA: Cold storage giant Lineage Logistics is aiming for a valuation of over $30bn in its initial public offering (IPO), expected in the first half of 2024, according to press reports. An IPO refers to the process of offering shares of a private corporation to the public in a new stock issuance for …
Oswestry, UK: Mark Steward Transport has a new Schmitz Cargobull S.KO Cool trailer with Schmitz Cargobull fridge. The trailer is pulled by a Daf tractor as part of Mark Steward ‘s temperature-controlled operations. The trailer joins a small fleet, including another S.KO Cool and a Schmitz Cargobull box trailer, to transport frozen foods to supermarkets …
Daventry, UK: Maritime Transport has a three-year contract with Tesco to deliver Tesco’s rail operations at its central distribution hubs within Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal. “The new agreement builds on Maritime’s 13-year history with the UK’s largest retailer of groceries and general merchandise, providing distribution services by road to Tesco sites and strengthens Maritime’s …
Rueil Malmaison, France: Carrier Transicold unveiled a retrofit system for vector trailer fridges at the Solutrans trade show in France. The [R]eCool converts existing Vector diesel refrigeration units with E-Drive technology installed on semi-trailers into a 100% electric refrigeration powered by a battery. The hybrid [R]eCool can also be recharged via the Vector’s generator set. …
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