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Temp buildings demand rises during uncertain times

Logistics Business Magazine

Big Box Buildings , part of the East Yorkshire based Big Box Group (operating throughout the UK), has been delivering a variety of temporary and more permanent buildings in double-quick time for companies looking for simple and affordable storage solutions. In fact, they were back in touch at the start of 2021 to request a further two.

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FCA to set up parts centre at Rivalta

Automotive Logistics

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is to turn the historic Fiat plant at Rivalta, near Turin, into a parts distribution centre (PDC) serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), among other markets. By 2020, Rivalta will also host Mopar’s regional headquarters. It will cover some 340,000 sq.m in all with 40,000 sq.m

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Logistics industry delivers HGV simulator to Zambia

Logistics Business Magazine

The donation followed a visit to ITC in 2018 by representatives of Big Change, Clipper Logistics, Malcolm Group and XPO. Daly explains: “This is a wonderful example of a group of companies, including competitors, coming together to support Transaid and ITC.

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Transport Cooperative LogCoop Reports Greater Solidarity and Networking in Sector

Logistics Business Magazine

The companies have come together at networking events, of which almost 40 are on the LogCoop annual calendar for 2020. For example, the Cologne group now meets every two weeks instead of every quarter, and the national meeting for Spain even takes place weekly.

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Trusting the market will stay afloat

Automotive Logistics

BLG also operates the car terminal at Gioia Tauro port in Italy, the biggest ro-ro terminal in the country, where again, volume growth has been high thanks to new custom from FCA and VW Group, as well as the relationship with shipping line Grimaldi. of workshops for PDI and PPO [vehicle customisation] services.”.

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What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur? The Incredible Journey of a Last Mile Pioneer

Logistics Viewpoints

Couriers optimize routes by centralizing their demand and distributed over the course of the day. He gave us a multi-day workshop on how to do this. We hired talented group of young engineers. This was an ecommerce florist with a distributed network marketplace. And the service deteriorated. And the owner was fantastic.

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Flight club

Automotive Logistics

In fact, NASA estimates that there will be 7m drones in US skies alone by 2020. Component manufacturer ZF has started testing the use of a drone to distribute parts at its main plant in Friedrichshafen, south-west Germany. Robert Garbett, founder of Drone Major Group.