PD Ports has granted a new long-term lease to Diffusion Alloys at Teesport Commerce Park, allowing for the construction of a new £1.5m coating facility and centre for excellence. Diffusion Alloys, an established global leader in diffusion coatings for large components, has occupied its current site...

Elektroautomatik in Sweden AB has entered into an agreement to acquire Jernbro’s AGV and automation operations. Jernbro Automation is a leading supplier of customer-specific automation solutions based around AGV concepts. The business has its office and production in Skövde with 22 employees. Jon...

AliExpress, part of Alibaba Group and one of the world’s largest online retail marketplaces, has introduced innovative logistics solutions in partnership with Cainiao, Alibaba’s logistics arm. Ahead of the world renowned 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, this enables the Company to offer X-day del...

A.P. Moller – Maersk has signed a global end-to-end logistics agreement with Danish Crown from 2021. The three-year end-to-end agreement covers all Danish Crown’s business units, delivering solutions on ocean services, inland logistics and cold chain logistics. Access to the digital supply chai...

The new logistics centre of German food group EDEKA Handelsgesellschaft Nordbayern-Sachsen-Thüringen mbH located in Marktredwitz, is currently under construction and will start operations in mid-2024 – both technologically and economically. It will supply some 900 stores in parts of Franconia, th...

Geek+, a global AMR leader, has launched the RoboShuttle RS8-DA, an 8m-high flexible arm robot. The highest in the industry, the new robot will enable customers to maximise the use of their warehouses. RoboShuttle is a safe, efficient, and flexible high-density solution that solves the complex logis...

At the recent World of Freight Expo in Bratislava, Slovakia, Logistics Business met with Zulf Hyatt-Khan, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Slovak Exporters. We spoke to  the Briton about his role, his passion for Slovakian trade, and how he is helping exporters from the country to expand their hor...

Dirección Provincial de Puertos – Argentina (DPP) recently accepted delivery of a Konecranes Liftace reach stacker for its operations in Ushuaia, at the southern tip of South America. Arriving in July 2021, it joined one other Konecranes reach stacker already on-site. The DPP oversees port activi...

Thermo King, a leader in transport temperature control solutions, has been awarded the global Project Excellence Award from the Project Management Institute (PMI) for launching Advancer – a disruptive re-imagining of the trailer refrigeration unit. “We are pleased to see the Advancer project rec...

Is order picking always the same? Not at all. Hardly any other field of activity in intralogistics is as diverse as goods picking. The range of applications is wide and requires appropriate technologies. STILL – one of the leading suppliers of intralogistics solutions and a successful market playe...