The pandemic changed consumer shopping behaviour for good. With physical stores forced to close, many had to adjust to shopping online with speed and convenience key to the experience. Whilst necessity drove this rapid change, retailers had to fight to keep up. Many invested heavily in improving the...

GEFCO UK has announced the appointment of Youssef Bajddi as its new Finished Vehicle Logistics Director. Bajddi has 14 years of experience working in international supply chain operations and strategy. He has been part of the GEFCO Group for the past 10 years, having joined the business in 2011 as a...

Boehringer Ingelheim was the first pharmaceutical company to fully outsource its operative tender management process to Transporeon in 2020. One year later, the benefits of this step have become clearly visible. In the current volatile market situation characterised by fluctuating prices, Boehringer...

Rushlift GSE, the specialist airport ground support equipment subsidiary of Doosan Industrial Vehicles UK, has entered into a six-year global framework agreement with airport ground services company, Menzies Aviation, to supply GSE equipment. Under the arrangement, Rushlift GSE will initially lease ...

GEODIS has announced the deployment of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) from Geek+, a global technology company specialised in smart logistics through advanced robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), at its Yuen Long Warehouse Distribution Centre (YLDC) in Hong Kong, SAR China. The YLDC will be pr...

Intralogistics systems provider STILL Material Handling UK has appointed Gillian Reed as Managing Director with effect from 1st January 2022. Reed was formerly Service and Operations Director at STILL UK, where she has been responsible for leading the development of the service team under STILL’s ...

New research by Prologis, a global leader in logistics real estate, has highlighted the global supply chain crisis, with logistics space at an all-time low, a slowdown in the flow of goods and rising construction costs. Prologis‘ Research team’s new paper, Persistent Disruption,  explores the ...

As supply chains struggle to meet the challenges of a fast-recovering economy, labour scarcity and post-Brexit trading complexity, fears are growing of empty shelves leading into peak season. Rising e-commerce volumes and the driver shortage are creating the perfect storm. Interim managers can provi...

Cascade Corporation, a global leader in the manufacturing of lift truck attachments, forks and related technologies, has successfully completed the acquisition of mast manufacturer Lift Technologies, Inc. (USA) and Lift-Tek Elecar S.p.A. (Italy) – more commonly known as Lift-Tek – from Calvi Hol...

Microline is an Italian company specialising in the design and marketing of automatic machinery and line-automation solutions. The company possesses a high degree of technological expertise, specialising in Tissue product packaging. This is the target sector of the ECO Wrap 1050, Microline’s lates...