April 2016
ACE Exports, which supplies personal care, grocery and household products to retailers throughout the Caribbean, has outsourced its supply chain process to Midlands-based DK Fufilment. Under the terms of the two year agreement, DKF will be responsible for receiving palletised loads of goods from ACE Exports’ global suppliers and storing the stock at its 165,000 sq ft shared user facility in Coventry.
Orders will be picked and assembled in to containers ...
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Teesport and Hartlepool owner PD Ports has been reaccredited for the second year as part of the Responsible Business Awards. It achieved a ‘Big Tick’ in the Inspiring Young Talent category which recognises businesses that address youth unemployment and the UK skills gap through ‘youth friendly’ recruitment, inspiring work experience ...
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Deutsche Post DHL is sending a Disaster Response Team to Manta in Ecuador following Saturday's earthquake. DHL DRT volunteers will provide logistics support at Ecuador’s Eloy Alfaro International Airport in Manta and will coordinate incoming international aid, preparing it for onward transportation to areas affected by the quake.
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The April edition of the Stifel Logistics Confidence Index returned to the trend of month on month improvements seen in January and February, despite a dip in March. Nonetheless, warn the index's publishers, Ti, structural issues within both the air and sea freight industries remain, with global economic performance offering ...
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Walsall sales and conversions firm Lion Containers has been invited to apprenticeship event at St. James Palace, London on 27 April in the presence of the Duke of York.
The company is part of Ladder for the Black Country, where businesses are encouraged to take on young people and invest in ...
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Eurogate Logistics has launched three new routes to Poland. The forwarder, which currently handles 40,000 full-load shipments each year to the country via Warsaw, now offers links to the Baltic port of Gdansk, the west-central city of Poznan and Rzeszow in the south east.
Like Warsaw, the new destinations will be ...
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Emirates SkyCargo has launched a new version of its protection material for temperature-sensitive cargo. White Cover Advance uses DuPont’s patented Tyvek material made of high density polyethylene to form a tough protective barrier against varying external temperatures and direct sunlight. The special material is water resistant but at the same ...
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IJS Global Gefco Netherlands has been awarded a Good Distribution Practice certificate by the Dutch Ministry of Health, with immediate effect. The internationally-recognised certificate shows that the company fulfils the requirements of the European Commission ‘Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of Medicinal Products for Human Use’ and of World Health ...
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Gefco has started operations in Serbia with the opening of a new subsidiary. It will offer the whole range of the Gefco Group services, including transport to and from the European Union, Russia, Turkey, time critical solutions and a rail service from China to Germany with a 20-day transit time.
Gefco ...
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Ian Jones, managing director of supply chain management company Warrant Group' was among thousands of runners taking part in the London Marathon on 24 April. And the Liverpool-headquartered firm is also fielding Andrew Berry, Recycled commodities customer service coordinator, for the 26-mile run
Ian Jones is raising money for Children with ...
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