Technological changes are affecting the port and logistics industries. New IT systems have been introduced at the Rotterdam and Antwerp seaports, where containers are released based on digital identity verification. Containers have traditionally been released by shipowners to recipients using paperw...

Fast-growing supply chain software specialist Industri-Matematik International (IMI) has enhanced its offering by adding the LYDIA Voice pick-by-voice solution to its powerful portfolio. The partnership deal with topsystem signed in June 2021 means that IMI can now include state-of-the-art LYDIA V...

Transmetrics, a frontrunner in predictive optimisation for the logistics industry, has opened an office in Dubai, aiming to serve its global customers by expanding across the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. Transmetrics uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within a SaaS platform, p...

Whilst hard to believe that it’s almost two years since we first heard about Covid-19 with uncertainty remaining about its longer-term effects on society, one thing appears absolutely clear: the pandemic has influenced consumer habits to such a degree that the upward trend in online shopping is mo...

Logistics and supply chain management is more critical than ever in a world that is increasingly becoming borderless. Achieving speed and efficiency requires timely collaboration, visibility and total control of the logistics operation. FarEye is an Intelligent Delivery Management SaaS Platform head...

With a symbolic turf-cutting act, construction work has begun for an industrial park that Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH is developing in Hanover-Langenhagen. A state-of-the-art property with a total hall area of 15,500 sq m is being built in the immediate vicinity of the international airport. C...

Italian liquid chemicals bulk transport company Chemical Express has accelerated its digitisation process by using IMT‘s telematics solution. Since 1979 Chemical Express has been transporting a wide range of liquid chemical sand industrial waste, including flammable, corrosive and other products c...

Carley Bassett, managing director of luxury children’s brand Sisi & Seb, shares how her team managed demand during the pandemic and the benefits of outsourcing fulfilment to Diamond Logistics. What trends are you seeing in the luxury children’s products market? How do you expect the market t...

Pioneering composite steel drainage pipe manufacturer, AquaSpira, recently unveiled ambitious plans to reduce its embodied carbon by half and has taken a significant step in achieving it by switching from IC engine to electric forklifts at its site in Nelson, Lancashire. When the company’s three t...

The ramp-up of the new automated frozen food warehouse of the Spanish food retailer Mercadona in Guadix (Granada, Spain), was carried out on time by WITRON. This is especially impressive as the construction and implementation of the project had to be executed in the midst of the most difficult phase...