Bardon, UK: Hayley Smith has been appointed head of customer service and relations at Oakland International’s site in Bardon, Leicestershire. She joined the company 15-years ago and worked in a variety or roles. “I’m delighted to be continuing to develop my career with Oakland. Since joining in 2007 I have built strong bonds with colleagues …
Galway, Ireland: Thermo King has opened a research and development center adjacent to its factory in Galway, Ireland. The research centere with up to 70 engineers, adds to the company’s electrification design and engineering capabilities in Europe, which includes a site in Essen, Germany. It is part of the company’s plan to deliver fully electric …
Oklahama City, Oklahama US: Angeles Equity Partners, in partnership with KJM Capital, has taken a majority stake in refrigerated transport provider Freymiller. Freymiller has 600 vehicles and provides refrigerated load, dedicated refrigerated transport, logistics brokerage, and intermodal transport of food and other products nationwide. “Angeles is excited to be investing in the freight logistics sector …
Manchester UK: The government has rejected calls by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to drop plans to charge motorists to enter the city’s Clean Air Zone, Environment Secretary George Eustice said that high-polluting vehicles should only be charged in the city centre, the most polluted part of Manchester. Burnham, however, said he would “continue to …
Coventry, UK: Speakers at next month’ s Logistics UK’s Next Generation Van conference includeTim Campbell, managing director of Campbells Consultancy and Jackie Hewson, alternative fuels implementation manager at John Lewis Partnership. The conference, in Coventry on 7 July, iss free-to-attend and provides an insight into future van taxation and explore decarbonisation. As well as Logistics …
Birmingham, UK: The firm running a Carlsberg brewery has been fined £3m over am ammonia gas leak in a refrigeration plant that killed a worker and left another seriously injured. David Chandler died after an “explosive release” of ammonia gas, which left around 20 others needing treatment, at the site in Northampton in November 2016. …
Castle Donington, UK: Moran Logistics is fitting Hultsteins’ Ecogen units to its gas-powered trucks dedicated to a customer contract. Moran has two compressed netural gas-powered Scania tractors to transport chilled produce from a national distribution centre to stores. Last year Moran began to investigate more efficient refrigerations system to improve sustainability. “We have a very clear …
Cape Town, South Africa: The Global Cold Chain Alliance is staging a cold chain conference in South Africa on 3-5 August in Cape Town Attendees will hear from industry experts and get a better understanding of industry trends, perspectives, and best practices, the association says. Topics include presentations from specialists on innovative business models and …
Rome, Italy: The Cool Chain Association is hosting a two-day perishables summit in Rome, Italy on 6 and 7 July. The association has formed a technical committee of experts from different fields to tackle issues in the temperature-controlled supply chain. The committee will host a round table discussion at the association’s summit. Later in the …
Luxembourg: US-based tracking company Tive has joined the Cool Chain Association. “Cool Chain members are focused on finding ways to collaborate to improve the temperature controlled supply chain and Tive brings knowledge and experience to help us achieve those goals,“ said Stavros Evangelakakis, chairman of the Cool Chain Association and head of Global Healthcare, Cargolux. …
Nesscliffe, Shropshire: Family business MJ Refrigeration Transport has bought 10 New Generation Daf XF 480s through dealer Greenhous Commercials. The company runs 27 artics from its base in Nesscliffe and 13 trucks from a sites in Llangefni. Five of the vehicles are involved in milk tanker work, delivering to dairies in the UK while the …
Reading, UK: The cold storage capacity of Cold Chain Federation members has jumped by more than 10% in a year – from 36 million cubic metres last year to over 40 million cubic metres (40,860,853 cubic metres). The federation released the figures to celebrate World Refrigeration Day 2022 on 26 June. It attributes the increase …
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