Critical Issues

Environmental laws derived from Marpol, due to come into force next year could create a headache for freight forward planners, according to David Williams, managing director of Rhenus UK.

AIM Commercial Services is among the first Driver CPC (Certificate of Professional Competence) training providers to be endorsed as a 'Skills for Logistics Standard of Excellence Driver CPC training provider'.

The logistics industry faces a crisis this Christmas if more is not done to address the shortage of drivers in the UK haulage market, according to Clyde Buntrock, Group Marketing & Business Development Director at Allport Cargo Services.

Brake, the road safety charity, has expressed disappointment at government plans to raise the speed limit for large lorries on dual carriageway roads to 60mph, despite serious concerns from a number of road safety groups.

In October, the Accrediting Bodies Association for Workplace Transport (ABA) tightened requirements for registering certified materials handling equipment (MHE) drivers, stating that all member accrediting bodies should "have in place their own certification registration system" on which all accredited training is "verified and recorded".

Electrified railways, metro style systems and innovative, technology enabled rural transport solutions will be common in the future, according to a report published today by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Cymru Wales.

European calculation rules substantially underestimate the climate benefit of biofuels in the transport sector. Their greenhouse gas emissions should be compared with the emissions of the fossil fuels that they replace in the market.

Due to a recent global engineering restructure to a matrix organisation, Steven Bloomfield has been promoted to Engineering Manager for Northern Europe at Dematic.

LLamasoft and CLX Logistics announced an agreement to offer European truckload, global ocean and global parcel data to LLamasoft customers for use in strategic supply chain design.

Chief editor Ed Holden spoke with some of the major players within the field of transportation management about current key talking points within this fascinating technology field; including changing demand trends, security and how transportation solutions might continue to develop in the near future.

A new Access survey reveals that with seamlessly integrated software for warehousing, production, scheduling, business intelligence and finance, companies can hasten their growth journey by minding the gaps into which their competitors will fall.