Logistics specialist Ryder has strengthened its partnership with UK joinery supplier Premdor by winning a 5 year renewal of its existing distribution contract and the award of an additional logistics management contract on an initial 2 year basis.
Read MoreLogistics service provider Concorde Logistics has signed a 3 year, £6m contract with the Partsflow division of carrier Lynx Express, with Lynx providing ‘in-boot‘ and daytime deliveries to more than 300 service engineers throughout the UK.
Read More(> explains André Heintz, President of Heintz Transports SA, Forbach (France). He is a member of Astre and chairman of the Eastern France regional section, where the international Transport Journal was recently invited to attend one of their meetings at Epinal.
Read MoreThe US customs authorities are planning to reduce the number of tore ign seaports from which loaded containers can be shipped to the LS to only ten hubs worldwide. The measures are designed to prevent terrorists from smuggling arms or weapons of mass destruction into the country by sea.
Read MoreDusseldorf-based GDSK is having to face up to the restructuring currently at hand in the European market, following a 5 million euro fall in revenue on imports last year. With major business lost when German post office bought out Dutch freight forwarder, Nedlloyd last year, Karsten Daniels, general manager international, for GDSK, sees more and more import work, particularly from the large mail operators going in a similar direction.
Read MoreThe Deutscher Paket Dienst (DPD) has an exciting and successful year behind it, as the senior management of the courier, express and parcel services provider told journalists at a recent press conference in Frankfurt! Main.
Read MoreDespite an avalanche of adverse publicity Consignia has enjoyed some success by attracting a number of big-name retailers to its expanding logistics solutions division. From its warehouse in Swindon, Wiltshire, the company has drawn the likes of JJBSports, Homebase, mail order stationerycompany Viking and Kingfisher’s ULY operation, Screwfix, to use its ‘Deliver & Build’ service. But more important to the company’sfuture success — to help it offset its broader problems– is its fledgling’ reverse logistics’service. It has already signed up a major high street entertainment retailer, as well as Safeway to use the service. It is also close to bringing on board a number of major book retailers.
Read MoreDeustsche Post in co-operation with the German Institut fur Marketing, has founded the Centre for Interactive Marketing and Media Management, in Munster, Germany.
The research centre will promote research and education in interactive marketing and media management, with particular emphasis on direct marketing.
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