Logistics company Eddie Stobart has been fined £133,000 after staff were exposed to asbestos during excavation work carried out at its rail and container freight port in Widnes. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) foun…
Eddie Stobart has been awarded a contract by Tesco for transport services at the supermarket giant’s Doncaster and Goole distribution centres, just over a year after it lost the work to DHL. A Stobart spokesman confirmed that it had won back the…
The board of Palletline is preparing to sell the business and is currently working with advisors to set the terms, Motor Transport has learnt. Potential buyers could include Amazon – a major customer of Palletline, which is currently the only pa…
Panattoni has fully let its 1.7 million sq ft logistics park in Northampton after signing lease agreements for the last two units with iForce and Hotel Chocolat. E-fulfilment provider iForce has signed a 10-year lease for 376,915sq ft and Hotel …
Stobart said it had become the first major logistics provider in the UK to set science-based targets to reduce carbon emissions. The company said it had signed up to the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a global project that provides bus…
Eddie Stobart Contract Logistics has introduced new Flexi Truck forklifts at its site on Magna Park, Lutterworth, which it said would speed up pallet movements and make them “hugely efficient” The new models have a lift height of 13.2 metres and…
Work is underway on the construction of Eddie Stobart’s new, two-unit campus at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (Prologis RFI DIRFT), with cladding now being installed on the buildings. Due for completion in the autumn, the new faci…