London, UK: The government has rejected new Road Haulage Association figures indicating that exports have fallen by 68% since the end of the transition period, insisting that freight flows are at normal levels on some days. An RHA survey of its international members revealed that there had been a drop of as much as 68% …
Sydney, Australia: Woolworths is planning to open a temperature-controlled food distribution centre in Greater Western Sydney following surging demand, particularly from its booming online grocery business. The multi-storey 60,000sq metre square distribution centre will be built on an 8.6 hectare site Woolworths owns in Wetherill Park, west of Parramatta. The co-location of fresh and chilled …
Basingstoke, UK: Gist has won the Cool and Special Cargoes Award in this year’s British International Freight Association Freight Service Awards for its eco-friendly chilled packaging product. The awards recognise organisations that are the best in the industry for specialist cargo and refrigerated services. Gist, with partner Polar Thermal, developed a durable and environmentally friendly …
London, UK: Raw material price rises and lack of availability will affect the packaging and pallet market until at least the middle of this year, warns the Timber Packaging and Pallet Confederation. Among the factors causing problems are unbalances across the global market for many products as the result of the pandemic and Brexit. Independent …
Coalville, Leicestershire, UK: Oakland International says that it has seen a “significant uplift” in enquiries from manufacturers looking for an effective cross-docking platform for their products since opening a chilled and deep chilled warehouse in Coalville in September 2020. Oakland International’s distribution director Martin Pearson said: “Along with the storage and picking capability, we were …
Tunbridge Wells, UK: The logistics industry needs government support in the 2021 Budget to help with training and employment needs, according to Logistics UK. In a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak MP, sent ahead of the spring Budget, Logistics UK’s chief executive David Wells has asked for interest free loans or grants to help training. …
Peterborough, UK: The Road Haulage Association has called on ministers to work with their EU counterparts to extend the easements being provided to supermarkets to cover all Northern Ireland supplies in a bid to give firms moving goods across the Irish Sea time to adjust to new processes. Since 1 January, complex bureaucracy has seen …
Hailsham, UK: MAR Cooling Solutions is a new temperature-controlled vehicle converter. Just lanuched it is working on large-scale projects, including conversions of vans to deliver Covid-19 vaccines. The company handles temperature-controlled conversions, including refrigerated panel vans, chill and freezer conversions, as well as line outs for vehicles without a fridge unit, electric refrigerated vehicles, racking, …
Roscoff, France: Brittany Ferries plans three new weekly freight only sailings between Ireland and France beginning tomorrow with a sailing between Rosslare and St Malo. The first of two new sailings out of Cork to Roscoff will begin this Saturday. These sailings are in addition to the current Brittany Ferries sailings out of Cork and …
Peterborough, UK: The RHA has warned that British companies have been left unwilling or unable to export to the EU, as half of all trucks returning to Europe via the short straits are doing so empty. The warning comes after RHA members have reported that disruption caused by new post-Brexit customs processes, as well as …
Paris, France: French temperature-controlled giant Stef, which saw turnover drop by 7.2% in the fourth quarter of 2020, has once again blamed the ongoing Covid-19 crisis for the fall. Turnover fell from €888m in the fourth quarter of 2019 to €824m in 2020. Stef said that the Covid-19 crisis had a significant impact on annual …
San Francisco, California, USA: PLM Trailer Leasing now offers a net-zero emission refrigerated trailer. The trailer fridge by Advanced Energy Machines is a complete all-electric solution with an industry standard operating range. Sol-Go supplied the solar panels. The Solar Tech electric trailer fridge is available as a single and multi-temperature unti with full-range temperature control …
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