Hammond Logistics started a 3 year contract with Steelcase Office Furniture to do all warehouse management and transport. It will deliver form a new factory in Margate, Kent and consolidate and distribute imported products. The work started this month and cements 7 year relationship.
Read MorePall-Ex is on schedule to open its purpose built hub near j22 of the M1 in mid-March. Construction is going well, although some hard standing for trailers may be slightly late due to frost this month.
Read MoreRoyal Mail, the cash-strapped postal operator, will be receiving more than Pounds 1bn of debt from the government, the Department of Trade and Industry confirmed yesterday. The cash, drawn from the Pounds 1.8bn of gilts – the accumulated cash generated by the business – on the balance sheet of the company would “enable the mails business to implement its renewal plan, and to support the nationwide network of post offices”, the DTI told parliament.
Read MoreNuneaton’s Lynx Express is celebrating one of its most successful years to date and is looking forward to matching that progress in 2003.
As well as expanding its contract base, the company, based on Bermuda Park industrial estate, was also recognised with two major industry awards.
Chief Executive David Burtenshaw said “Our business has had one of its busiest years ever in 2002, culminating in record parcels volumes through our Nuneaton hub.
Read MorePalletways UK , the overnight palletised freight network which extended into Scotland only last April, is doubling its presence there. Regional depots have opened in Inverness, Perth, Falkirk, Wishaw and Broxburn, adding to those in Aberdeen, Dumfries, Dalkeith, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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