Metro Supply Chain Holdings (UK) Limited, a division of Canadian-based Metro Supply Chain, has acquired Century Logistics, a long-standing third-party logistics provider based in Suffolk, UK. “We welcome Century Logistics to the Metro Supply Chain team. Century’s wide capabilities and customer-...

SEGRO, a leading owner, manager and developer of modern warehouses and industrial property, has fully leased SEGRO Logistics Centre Venray to CEVA Logistics Netherlands. “We are pleased to welcome CEVA Logistics Netherlands to this new development. The brand new centre was completed at the end of ...

Experience WOF SUMMIT 2022 Take part in the innovative logistics congress. Join us on 4 – 5 May in Vienna. After successfully organizing WOF EXPO 2021 in Bratislava, we introduce the first-ever WOF SUMMIT Vienna. Two thrilling days will include top-class speakers, panel discussions among leading e...

Supply chain digitalisation expert Transporeon and air freight real-time tracking platform provider BlueBox Systems are now working on joint solutions to enable even more transparency in air freight. In an industry such as logistics, where increasingly precise figures and schedules are the order of ...

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is supporting this week’s National Careers Week 2022 with a series of events aimed at demonstrating its commitment to promoting careers in logistics. National Careers Week 2022 runs from 7th to 12 March and is a celebration of careers guidance a...

Amazon has ordered a fleet of six Flexi Truck articulated forklift trucks for its DXB3 fulfilment centre in Dubai Logistics City, UAE. The e-commerce site launched in the UAE in May 2019 and, spread over 32,700 sq m and stocked with more than four million products, the DXB3 site is Amazon’s larges...

Toyota has introduced to the UK what it describes as the materials handling industry’s first-ever purpose-designed lithium-ion powered pallet truck (PPT) – the 1600kg capacity Toyota BT Levio LWI160. Thanks to its unique modular, compact lithium-ion battery solution, it has opened the possibilit...

E2open Parent Holdings, Inc., a leading network-based provider of a cloud-based, mission-critical, end-to-end supply chain management platform, has acquired Logistyx Technologies, a leader in global parcel and e-commerce shipping and fulfilment technology. With the combination, E2open enhances its g...

Due to the industry standard 4.0, digitalisation, automation and networking of systems and facilities are becoming the predominant topics in production and thus also in logistics. Industry 4.0 pursues the increasing optimisation of processes and workflows in favour of productivity and flexibility an...

Samsara Inc., the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, reported record financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended 29th January, 2022. “We achieved significant milestones in the fourth quarter, including becoming a publicly listed company. We ended the year with over half ...