General Transport & Distribution News

Contemporary furniture, lighting and home accessories retailer, The Conran Shop has chosen Wincanton as its dedicated premium home delivery partner for UK customers.

With just four remaining live events, and one virtual event left in Logistics UK’s Transport Manager 2023 conference series, anyone wishing to attend is being advised to sign up as soon as possible to ensure their place and keep their compliance knowledge up to date.

By Johan Hellman, Vice President, Product & Carrier at nShift.

Ecommerce sales are tipped to hit $8.1 trillion by 2026. So it’s no surprise that retailers of all sizes are keen to get hold of the biggest possible slice of the pie. Retail logistics and warehouse teams are the lynchpin of ecommerce operations. Here’re just four ways that logistics teams contribute to multichannel retail and ecommerce success.

Applied Driving, the global provider of driver safety and performance management solutions, has teamed up with not-for-profit organisation Women in Transport to help promote diversity and equity in the transport sector. 

The global automatic banding machine market size is expected to be valued at US$ 3.5 billion in 2023. Packaging design innovation, bolsters the overall scope for automatic banding machine market, which is projected to grow at a CAGR of 4.8% between 2023 and 2033, totaling around US$ 5.6 billion by 2033.

Less than half (45.6%) of warehouse and logistics leaders see automation as necessary over the next five years, according to new research from ProGlove.

Air Partner’s Global Cargo Division delivered humanitarian medical aid to Afghanistan following the powerful earthquakes which struck the country during October.

FourKites has announced that Teva, a global provider of generic medicines, has achieved a 0.005% incident rate by leveraging FourKites’ global carrier visibility solution, NIC-Place.

The end of project report by the Decarbonising UK Freight Transport (DUKFT) Network, suggests several ways to overcome the chicken-and-egg problems associated with decarbonising road, rail and maritime freight transport.

Descartes Systems Group unveiled several new developments to customers at its 2023 Innovation Forum for Routing, Mobile & Telematics, which expand the capabilities of its routing, mobile and telematics solution suite for fleet operators.

From a young age Luke Pacey always knew he wanted to work with vehicles. So he was delighted when March-based Knowles Logistics offered him an apprenticeship as a Heavy Vehicle Workshop Technician.