Logistics developer and manager St. Modwen has acquired a c.170,000 sq ft cross-docked distribution centre in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK. The high-specification distribution warehouse is located on the Hatfield Business Park, one of the South East’s premier distribution centres located  close to...

Cabka, a specialist for load carriers made of recycled plastic, now provides two new pallets: the Eco CP3 and the Eco CP9. These are designed to make the logistics of the chemical industry more efficient and at the same time meet the requirements of the circular economy. The two pallets are on a sim...

Amazon is taking advantage of Europe’s multimodal capabilities to expand its use of maritime transport via sea routes. Thousands of truck movements between Spain and Italy have already been taken off the road. Almost half of the merchandise movements made by Amazon between its logistics centres in...

San Antonio Terminal Internacional S.A. (STI) has started to receive delivery of 19 Konecranes Liftace reach stackers and one Konecranes Liftace empty container handler at its operations in the Port of San Antonio in central Chile. The first delivery of six units already arrived in July 2022, the se...

Bowe Group, a leading provider of integrated automation technology, has made an $8.2m investment round in MOV.AI – a startup revolutionising Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) development. The round is led by Bowe Group and includes MOV.AI’s existing investors State of Mind Ventures, NFX, and Viola ...

The UK’s largest independent furniture retailer, Furniture Village, has extended its six-year relationship with Asset Alliance Group by refreshing part of its home delivery fleet with 15 MAN and eight DAF trucks. The 7.5 tonne DAF LF 180 and MAN TGL 7.190 vehicles, supplied on a five-year full-ser...

Black Friday has moved from a single day to an almost week-long event of retail sales and promotions. Consumers now expect physical and online stores to take part and the build-up can be almost as big as the event itself. Alex Borg, Technical Operations Manager at leading fulfilment provider, Zendbo...

One of the key findings of Descartes’ recent study of consumer sentiment of sustainable home delivery practices was that consumers have different delivery expectations when it comes to sustainability. Half of the respondents said that they were quite/very interested in sustainable delivery options...

Meachers Global Logistics has become a member of The Solent Cluster, the first major decarbonisation initiative to substantially reduce CO2 emissions from industry, transport and households across the Solent and the south coast of England. The Solent Cluster is a cross-sector collaboration of int...

Supply chains across Europe have been warned that remaining high prices of inputs other than raw materials are expected to keep costs of essential products such as pallets and packaging high for the foreseeable future. According to some European industry indices, the costs of raw materials used to m...