An influential group of MPs has warned the government it risks sleepwalking into another supply chain crisis after it rejected many of its recommendations to “level up” logistics. The transport select committee (TSC) said its road freight supply…
Clipper has signed a deal with kidswear retailer Polarn O. Pyret (PO.P) to support its second hand clothing service. The contract will see Clipper provide the Swedish company with enhanced reverse logistics capabilities including rapid turnaroun…
Parcel delivery firm Evri is to open a £60m parcel sortation hub in Barnsley next Tuesday (20 September). Named Colossus, the 341,000 sq ft facility is said to be the biggest of its kind in Europe and will sort 1.1 million parcels a day for onwa…
Advanced Supply Chain Group (ASCG) – part of the Reconomy Group – has recruited former Wincanton head of operations Keith Lawrence (pictured) as its new business operations director to support long-term growth. Lawrence brings two decades of sup…
Meachers Global Logistics has sealed a deal with Millbrook Beds to operate the manufacturer’s entire transport network. Under the terms of the three-year partnership, Hampshire-based Meachers will take on all of Millbrook Beds’ drivers and a num…
Carlton Forest 3PL has booked a five-year partnership with luggage brand Tripp, to deliver a full-service container, storage, order processing and logistics service. This latest win is part of the company’s drive into the B2C and e-commerce sect…
The number of transportation and storage businesses that have failed since Covid-19 hit the UK has risen by 14%, according to a study by the School of Marketing. The research analysed the latest ONS and government data on the number of businesse…
UK e-commerce sales have fallen to their lowest level since the online boom started in March 2020, home delivery specialist ParcelHero reported this week. Pointing at statistics that show that online sales fell from 37% of the entire retail mark…
Around 1,000 warehouse staff at Amazon’s facility at Tilbury in Essex staged sit down protests on Wednesday and Thursday this week after rejecting a 35p an hour pay rise. The workers are demanding the online giant increase their pay by £2 an hou…
DHL Supply Chain has extended its partnership with Henkel, which has seen the FMCG company move its retail operation to the new COMAH facility, Manton Wood, in North Nottinghamshire. Henkel, the business behind leading brands including Schwarzko…
Kitchen supplier Howdens said a vital ingredient for its sustainability strategy is hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), which it is now using extensively across its logistics fleet. It is also piloting electric trucks and is introducing six bio-li…
XPO Logistics has been awarded an exclusive distribution contract by hydrogen retailer Element 2. The multi-year agreement will see XPO begin transporting hydrogen fuel from partner production sites to Element 2 refuelling stations in the North …
Wincanton has extended its contract with omnichannel home furnishings retailer Loaf. The additional three-year deal builds on six years of collaboration between the companies, which has seen Wincanton support Loaf’s omnichannel growth across the…
Parcel delivery firm Evri, which was formerly known as Hermes, has forged a strategic partnership deal with Vinted, the online marketplace for second hand clothes. The partnership, which comes seven years after Evri became a Vinted delivery part…