“Trust defines brands and is earned, not bought” is a headline from the Edelman Trust Barometer special report issued during the pandemic, where respondents said that trust is second only to price when purchasing a new brand. For Whittan, a leading UK storage manufacturer celebrating 70 years as...

A six-month warehouse-wide hard-count inventory audit by luxury and collectable online watch retailer, Watch Gang, has registered a 0% shrinkage rate for the first time and highest-ever customer service levels. Since switching to technologically advanced cloud-based WMS SnapFulfil, the rapidly expan...

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has written to the UK government  asking it to investigate the state of competition within the current deep sea container shipping market. The UK’s main trade association for freight forwarding and logistics companies says that its members are ...

Briggs Equipment, one of the UK’s premier asset management and engineering services specialists, has underlined its ongoing commitment to sustainability by becoming an officially accredited carbon neutral business. The company will also be implementing a wide-ranging environmental strategy that wi...

Transaid has released nine places on its highly sought-after Cycle Malawi 2022 challenge, which will take place from 1 – 9 October, and is inviting riders from across the transport and logistics industry to register their interest quickly, to avoid disappointment. Those signing up will join a grou...

RFID technology does not just exist since yesterday, but especially now it has a major impact on the profits and losses of companies, for example in retail and logistics. RFID tags that are attached to goods can be read with mobile computers in such a way that real-time results for transactions, sto...

Tesco is launching the UK’s first commercially used fully electric heavy freight articulated trucks. Two new 37 tonne DAF electric vehicles will transport food and other products from Wentloog rail terminal outside Cardiff to Tesco’s distribution centre in Magor, Wales, in partnership with logis...

Richard Burnett, the chief executive of the Road Haulage Association (RHA), has resigned having spent seven years in the job. Although the RHA hasn’t released a statement on Burnett’s departure, the story was broken last month by transport magazine Motor Transport. RHA national chairperson Moret...

David Wells, Chief Executive of business group Logistics UK, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list, for services to transport and logistics. Wells, 56, who has been in charge of the organisation for the past six years, has been recognised for his transformational work which has es...

The Bolloré Group has received an offer from the MSC Group, a major player in container transport and logistics, to acquire 100% of Bolloré Africa Logistics, comprising all of the Bolloré Group’s transport and logistics activities in Africa, on the basis of an enterprise value, net of minority ...