Tag: Road Transport

Freight Transport: meeting the challenges

Posted by | Apr 20, 2004 | |

Martin Jones
Department for transport
‘How the government see the regulatory background the freight industry will face over the next few years’

Mark Watts MEP
Labour MEP for South East
‘European policy on freight transport’

Ruth Pott
Road haulage Association
‘The impact of the working time directive on road haulage’

Lord Tony Berkeley
The Rail Freight Group
‘The competitiveness and potential of rail freight’

Tony Hagon
Advenza Freight
‘A new approach to rail freight’

Ian Hetherington
Skills for logistics
‘Policies to encourage people into the industry’

Nick Gallop
Intermodality LLP
‘Freight quality partnerships: are they working?’

Colin Beaumont
British international freight association
‘The supply chain and security’

John Bagley
Network Strategy Highways Agency
‘How to give freight an advantage on the road network’

Chris Douglas
TransportEnergy Best Practice
‘Improving the energy efficiency of freight transport’

Professor Mike Browne
University of Westminster
‘Chairman’s closing remarks’

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Pharmaceuticals – Chilled from start to finish

Posted by | Apr 19, 2004 | |

Monitoring the necessary temperature throughout a drug’s total life cycle has become critical to the movement of pharmaceuticals, especially clinical trial products.
Regulatory policies worldwide increasingly require manufacturers to produce complete audit trails recording where a drug was made, with what ingredients, where it was stored and for how long, and where, when and how it was delivered.

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Dealing with the difficult(GeoPost Corp’s mode of operations)

Posted by | Apr 15, 2004 | |

Looking after a fleet the size of GeoPost’s means taking cost – and risk – seriously. Toby Clark talks to Charlie Shiels, who has to keep the parcels moving.

Charlie Shiels is responsible for the GeoPost fleet – under the livery of both Interlink and and Parceline – and has the unusual title of director of risk and transport – perhaps reflecting the importance of managing safety and security issues in such a large operation. Having been a specification and purchasing engineer at Exel Logistics in the late eighties, he worked for British Airways and Argos, before joining Parceline/GeoPost as general manager transport in 1994. Now a member of GeoPost UK’s senior management team, the 41-year-old is a member of both the Institute of Road Transport Engineers and the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers. Motor Transport met him at his office in the massive Interlink/Parceline hub in Smethwick, just off the M5.

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Palletways expanding into Bologna

Posted by | Apr 8, 2004 | |

Palletways Italia has relocated its central hub in Verona further south to Bologna, the logistics centre of the contry, to accommodate a 50% growth in operations last year. The dedicated hub has 6,510 sqm of warehousing, a two storey office block and has room for future expansion.

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