Dunstable, UK: Renault Trucks has launched a last mile e-mobility concept, the Renault Trucks E-Tech Master OptiModale, “for cleaner, greener and more accessible urban deliveries”. Designed and commissioned by Renault Trucks to help reduce congestion and improve air quality in urban areas, the E-Tech Master OptiModale combines three types of electric transport in one vehicle: …
Coventry, UK: AAH Pharmaceuticals is using a Relex system to improve supply chain planning in its AAH, Enterprise, and Trident businesses. AAH provides twice daily delivery to more than 14,000 locations and previously used manual processes to manage the supply chain. Relex will help AAH manage forecasting and replenishment with over 1,000 vendors, support demand …
London, UK: Tracker Network (UK), now provides its tracking system throughout Europe. Developed and implemented by its United States parent CalAmp, the system will particularly benefit multinational businesses in the pharmaceutical, electronics, biotech, food and consumer goods industries looking to secure high-value, high-risk shipments in transit, while also improving supply chain efficiency and offering essential …
Slough, UK: Toyota Material Handling UK has is offering to design and deliver automated storage and handling projects. Toyota Logistics Solutions Integration will develop systems based on the most appropriate technology for each client’s specific requirements, which means that designs are not restricted to Toyota products. Luis Sullivan, head of systems integration, says: “Toyota is …
Long Beach, California, USA: Carrier Transicold used the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo to show its range of electric transport refrigeration and cooling products as part of the E-Cool series, which help lower emissions for customers across the cold chain. “Our eCool portfolio encompasses solutions for a wide range of applications to fulfill our customers’ need for …
London, UK: Soaring fuel prices and 30-year-high inflation have taken the UK’s average haulage and courier price-per-mile up by 16% over the last three years, according to TEG research. Figures from the TEG Road Transport Price Index highlight the severe impact of road freight prices on businesses in Greater London compared to the rest of …
Chicago, Illinois, USA: “Digitization will enable us to gain operational efficiency for both labor and physical space and monitor operations more accurately,” says Gary Teleky, operations manager, Reliable Healthcare Solutions. The company has installed warehouse management software from Mecalux that will send operators detailed instructions on how to perform each operation, from goods receipt to …
Walsall, UK: Meat wholesaler Tican Chilled is making savings by running a pair of Hultsteins’ hydraulic drive fridges. The slimline systems are on two Chereau bodies 18-tonne, compressed natural gas powered, Scanias. The fridges use an hydraulic pump driven by the power take-off on the vehicle’s engine. The hydraulic drive powers the fridge compressor directly, …
Rainford, UK: Fresh produce company Len Wright Salads has acquired the transport division of T Wilson & Sons (Farmers). T Wilson & Sons, which started in business in 1977, provides temperature-controlled transport for fresh produce. The business will trade as T Wilson & Sons (Transport). and continue to operate from its existing base at Rainford. …
Tunbridge Wells, UK: Nearly three quarters of logistics companies report rising costs driven by fuel price increases, according to a survey by Logistics UK. Its report, Logistics UK May 2022 Performance Tracker, says 71% of UK logistics companies reported cost of transporting goods during up the first quarter compared to the same period last year. …
Los Angeles, California, USA: Electric truck maker Xos and Thermo King are to develop an all-electric, multi-temperature, refrigerated truck. Xos will use Thermo King’s units on the Xos Hub mobile charging station and Thermo King will use Xos’ Lyra Series battery systems on its electric trailer fridges and trucks fridges,
Farnborough, UK: Thermo King will at the ITT Hub in Farnborough next week showing technology that leads to sustainable and zero-emission refrigerated transport. “Sustainability, fuel efficiency, electrification and transition of conventional architecture is what is being discussed in the industry today,” said David O’Gorman, regional director North and Western Europe at Thermo King. “We’re coming …
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