The Managing Director of Basildon-based courier company Abby Couriers, Mark Giles, will be heading for Aberdeen today as one of the Essex delegates at the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) National Conference. Managing Director of Abby Couriers, Mark Giles, said: "Abby Couriers has been a member of the FSB for some years and has gained great...[more]

What's your story? The EEF Future Manufacturing Awards has launched the second year of its search for world-class UK manufacturers. The awards celebrate excellence in four categories: innovation, enterprise, environmental responsibility and skills development. They reward world class performance and promote the best practice of modern manufactu...[more]

Barloworld Handling, one of Britain's largest materials handling equipment companies, has appointed Phil Bastow as its managing director for the UK. Phil Bastow joined Barloworld Handling in January 2009 as operations director and succeeds Geoff Tucker as managing director who has returned home to pursue new business interests in South Africa. P...[more]

The public's attitude to public services. The rise in the number of pot holes caused by severe icy conditions is likely to have caused a sharp drop in the public's overall satisfaction with the state of our roads and highways, according to the latest public service satisfaction survey, released today by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). ...[more]

With visitor numbers rising all the time, www.transportsfriend.org has become an increasingly important resource for managers and drivers alike. To provide the best possible visitor experience, the site has now been redesigned to feature a mix of text based pages and imagery in a layout that is clear, intuitive and simple to navigate. There are al...[more]

Suttons, a leading supplier of global logistics solutions, is supporting its continued international expansion with a £6m investment in new isotanks. Four hundred 26,000 litre baffled tanks have been ordered from NT Tanks in China and will be delivered to Suttons from May 2010. It means the company, which is a specialist in moving bulk liquid...[more]

Hoyer UK driver trainer Chris Hill has given Transaid's Professional Driver Training Project in Zambia a boost, after leading a 12-day 'training to train' course in the country's capital, Lusaka. Road deaths are the third biggest killer following HIV/AIDS and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. International development charity Transaid is collaborat...[more]

Cooper Specialised Handling has helped the UK's largest port group increase its uptime and productivity to facilitate the increased popularity of the rail freight industry. Associated British Ports (ABP) operating at the premier Hams Hall Intermodal Rail Freight Terminal near Birmingham, has sought the services of Cooper SH to maintain its mixed...[more]

Two Northumberland residents are celebrating after winning a laptop and printer in a County Council competition to raise awareness about recycling. Liz and George Sancaster, from Cramlington, entered the competition along with more than 500 other Northumberland residents, and were selected as the lucky winners. To enter they had to watch a speci...[more]

The UK's national Cat® Lift Truck distributor and service provider, Briggs Equipment, has secured a major contract after demonstrating how it could dramatically reduce costs for a leading supplier of fresh produce. Leading fresh chilled produce supplier, Kanes Foods, had been working with four materials handling service providers and needed to g...[more]

The Basildon-based courier company which launched the first electric powered vehicles on delivery routes in central London, Abby Couriers, will be displaying its electric powered vehicles at the Basildon Green Market Place on Monday 12 July 2010 at The Holiday Inn, Basildon. Managing Director of Abby Couriers, Mark Giles, said: "Basildon Green ...[more]

Bearings and sintering specialist Bowman International has acquired most of the assets of the sintering division of MPC Industrial Solutions, after the sintered iron components manufacturer went into administration in October last year. All stock, tooling, goodwill and various other items have been purchased from the administrator. Th...[more]

CHEP, the global leader in pallet and container pooling services has recently signed a five-year contract with British Sugar, the leading supplier of sugar to the UK market. This new business involves the conversion of British Sugar's dedicated internal yellow pallet pool to CHEP and is worth £800,000 per annum. British Sugar is part of Associat...[more]

Established in 1993, Suffolk-based Store-It-All operates in excess of 50,000 sq ft of shared user warehousing space within which anything from ambient temperature foodstuffs to electronic components and garden supplies is stored for a broad range of clients. In addition, Store It All provides a specialist archive facility for storage of document...[more]

Emergency logistics provider Evolution Time Critical has been recognised for its market leading expertise by global market research organisation Frost & Sullivan. Evolution Time Critical has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2010 European Logistics Vertical Market Penetration Leadership Award. The award recognises Evolution's market leading posi...[more]

NetDespatch is streamlining sales and delivery processes for online retailers and catalogue sales and mail order companies with its advanced web software - Velocity Connector. By using this automated online system to connect electronically to NetDespatch's real-time web booking and tracking service, companies are processing more orders and providin...[more]

The UK's forklift industry is welcoming signs that the economy will improve later this year. After months of doom and gloom in the UK's media, the end of January saw headlines proclaiming that the country was officially out of recession. According to the recently published annual Plimsoll Report, the UK's buffeted forklift market is slowly emerg...[more]

Award-winning express delivery company Eezehaul is set to expand further into the haulage and courier industries from its exciting new base close to Gatwick Airport with the help of Haulage Exchange. Four times larger than its previous headquarters, the 80,000 square feet of warehousing set in a five acre site will enable Eezehaul to extend its ...[more]

Logisticians need to know more about maximising the potential of collaborative partnerships and should visit this month's Food & Drink Logistics Show taking place at NEC, Birmingham 21st - 24th March. On Tuesday 23rd, leading supply chain practitioners, Jane Gorick, managing director of LPR and Mick Wilson, business director at TDG will be speaking...[more]

Schoeller Arca Systems ("SAS"), the global market leader in returnable transport packaging systems, announces it will launch its Magnum Optimum(R) FLC (Foldable Large Container) series over the next months. The series is based on new developments resulting from, revolutionary technical progress and answer on a changing supply chain demand in the au...[more]