Tipton-based Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express has revealed it is to move into the pallet sector through a partnership, to include cross-selling of services, with an existing network. Alistair Meikle, sales and marketing director, says: “We’re not going to hang around on this and are in the process of talking to a system.”
Read MoreThe Post Office is to more than double the number of branches which offer on-demand Bureau de Change services. It says it is increasing the provision to keep up with the ever-growing amount of cash UK holiday makers spend abroad. The number of its branches offering the service will rise from 640 to 1,690, as some 15 million British people are expected to spend GBP30 billion abroad in 2004.
Read MoreMartin 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’
Talks on a recovery plan for loss-making An Post have resumed at the Labour Relations Commission.
A range of issues, including collection and delivery, are due to be tackled over the next month under talks chairman Tom Pomphrett.
Read MoreRoyal Mail is reviewing the licensing agreements for its Postal Address File (PAF). Industry insiders warn that it could see the company own all data which has been validated against the file.
The proposals follow Royal Mail’s failed court case against 192.com for using correct names and addresses in its directory products after validating its information against PAF.
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