Rexam Webster wins contract with Meachers Transport
Rexam Webster, cosmetic packaging producer, has appointed Meachers Transport at its exclusive UK logistics provider.
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Wincanton wins contract with Safeway
Safeway has strengthened its relationship with logistics operator Wincanton, with the award of a new contract to handle transport operations at the supermarket retailers Swindon distribution centre.
Read MoreSecuricor Omega Logistics wins contract with Campbell Grocery Products
Campbell Grocery Products of Kings Lynn has renewed and extended an existing distribution contract with Securicor Omega Logistics (SOL) for a further five years to incorporate the Bachelors and Oxo brands, which the company recently acquired from Unilever.
Read MoreIntermodal keeps up with the flow
Automotive Logistics
Huge flows of containerised automotive components are now being shipped around Europe by rail, which is now winning its fair share of traffic as competition between service providers grows.
Joe Pickers, general manager UK of Spanish rail operator Transfesa, emphasises the contribution that rail can make to the supply chain. The operator runs between six and 12 blocktrains a week, between Ford’s production plants in Dagenham, east London and Valencia.
“Each train carries 44 13.6 metre swapbodies, ” he says.
“It would be difficult to arrange the movement of such a large volume of freight by road at any one time.”
Transit time is between 36 and 48 hours, and Pickers says the service is extremely competitive in both speed and price, compared with road.
Read MoreCost-efficiency push fuels consolidation
Automotive Logistics
Automotive manufacturing is concentrating on the development of single-site sourcing and transnational production, requiring a wider range of capabilities from logistics contractors, and investment, ” said Tibbett & Britten chairman and CEO John Harvey, while announcing the group’s withdrawal from the sector, back in May, with the sale of its £150m (€239m) turnover Axial automotive logistics subsidiary to AutoLogic.
According to Harvey, the group has grown so much that “the competition for financial and management resources has made it increasingly difficult to give Axial the focus necessary to develop the business”.
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