Tina Chander, partner and head of the employment team at Wright Hassall offers advice to business on managing the current health crisis Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK: The serious health concerns brought about by the coronavirus outbreak (officially Covid-19) have been well documented, but the impact of the illness on global stock markets and business operations seems …
London, UK: Kerry Logistics Network has moved its UK air freight division to London’s Heathrow Airport as it continues to grow its air freight volumes. The 3,700sq metre site has a temperature-controlled bonded warehouse including frozen storage, pick and pack machinery, and vacuum cooling and is rated AA+ under the BRC Global Standard for Food …
Arlington, Virginia, USA: The Global Cold Chain Alliance has set up a Coronavirus Resource Centre. The online advice centre provides daily updated information about the respiratory disease which has now been detected in 50 locations internationally, including cases in the United States. “GCCA is working closely with government officials, industry partners, and the WFLO Scientific …
London, UK: Temperature-controlled operators will lose the duty relief on red diesel within two years. Fuel subsidies for non road going vehicle engines – known as red diesel – will be scrapped “for most sectors” in two years’ time. Farmers and rail operators will be excluded, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this afternoon. The fuel attracts …
Fraserburgh, Scotland: Gray & Adams’ latest demonstrator is a refrigerated lifting-deck trailer. A Carrier Transicold Vector HE 19 provides for the 13.6-metre, 44-pallet lifting-deck trailer. The unit has Carrier’s telematics and a light bar indication system. “The internal load space inside a lifting-deck trailer is huge; to set and maintain deep freeze temperatures you need …
Dublin, Ireland: Blackhorse Transport has added three new Schmitz Cargobull refrigerated trailers to its 30-truck fleet. The trailers will deliver to restaurant distribution centres in Ireland, the UK and Europe. They will also transport cooked chicken to Irish food wholesalers Musgrave and BWG Foods. John Molloy, director, Blackhorse Transport, says: “The quality of Schmitz Cargobull …
Blainville-sur-Orne, France: Renault Trucks is due to start making its D and D Wide ZE electric trucks this month. The electric models will be made alongside the truck assembly line for the distribution range, which produces 262 cabs and distribution trucks daily. A new 1,800m² ZE building is now entirely dedicated to technical operations relating …
London, UK: The government is relaxing restrictions on night-time deliveries for food retailers in built-up areas over concerns about stockpiling and is also considering extending drivers’ hours. Environment Secretary George Eustice said: “By allowing night-time deliveries to our supermarkets and food retailers, we can free them up to move their stocks more quickly from their …
Schindellegi, Switzerland: Kuehne+Nagel is to sell a major part of its UK contract logistics portfolio to XPO Logistics. The transaction includes the drinks logistics, food services and retail and technology businesses. These operations generated a turnover of approximately £616m in 2019. Detlef Trefzger, chief executive, Kuehne+Nagel International, said:“One year ago, we first announced the strategic …
London, UK: Haulage companies face having to process a “mountain” of safety and security declarations post-Brexit after British negotiators rejected participation in the “safety and security zone”. According to an article in the Telegraph, British negotiators ignored industry requests to seek vital security waivers from the EU, needed to smooth cross-channel freight after Brexit, despite …
Geneva, Switzerland: The European road transport sector is facing a 13% increase in driver shortage in 2020, says a report from the IRU. IRU carried out research amongst small and medium transport and logistics companies in a number of European countries, calculating the commercial freight driver shortage on the continent to rise from 23% in …
The sight of people walking about wearing face masks as protection against the corona virus, when there is no evidence that masks have any benefit, is a reminder of how rational thinking disappears in the face of health scares. And the corona virus has all the makings of being just that: a scare. Yet the …
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