An official partner of the 25th James Bond film, No Time To Die, CMA CGM granted filmmaker EON Productions unprecedented access to Kingston Container Terminal in Jamaica to shoot an action sequence with a seaplane, and the vessel Fort Saint Georges features in the film when Bond is rescued from the ...

FedEx Express has launched its Small Business Grant Competition in Europe. The competition offers a total grant pool of nearly €250,000 to European small businesses to help them grow and achieve their ambitions. For the first time, the competition will be run as a single pan-European contest, open...

A simple-to-use track-and-trace system that collects measurements and images of incoming stock or packaged goods and turns them into valuable Master Data is being launched in the UK by sensor manufacturer SICK with a free trial offer. The SICK Master Data Analyzer is already deployed at hundreds of ...

Lithion Recycling and UgoWork have signed a collaboration agreement for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries developed by UgoWork for the material handling market. The agreement includes recycling tests of several generations of batteries produced by UgoWork at Lithion’s demonstration plant. In ...

Global supply chain operator Geodis is acquiring 21.5ha of land at Trade Port Noord from Greenport Venlo. It plans to build one of the most sustainable logistics facilities in the Netherlands: a 130,000 sq m contract logistics site servicing customers from various vertical sectors and designed to a...

Locus Robotics, a leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfilment warehouses, has secured $50m in additional funding from existing investor Tiger Global Management to facilitate continued growth and expansion into new markets around the globe, and more effectively meet the needs of its growi...

The rise and rise of ecommerce, accelerated by the pandemic, brings new challenges for packagers looking to meet their customers’ sustainability targets. Logistics Business editor Paul Hamblin speaks to experts from Sitma about the opportunities. More parcels in more shapes and sizes means more pa...

DP World will begin work in October 2021 on a new fourth berth at its London Gateway logistics hub to increase supply chain resilience and create more capacity for the world’s largest vessels. The £300m sum – which builds on the £2bn investment DP World has made in Britain over the last decade...

The new Yale UX Series range proved to be the ideal solution for the intermittent needs of German landscaping and horticultural company Ferdinand Wiese & Sohn GmbH. Cities, towns and villages around the world are witnessing a resurgence in the use of outdoor spaces. They provide a place to unwin...

More than half of UK businesses (54%) say Brexit has presented them with data access and management challenges, according to research from MuleSoft, an integration and API platform provider. This finding highlights that the challenges of siloed data and skills shortages are being amplified as busine...