Gist has converted to 100% renewable electricity to reduce its carbon emissions in 2021. This change forms part of ongoing efforts to reduce the environmental impact of its operations. With zero emission electricity now used to power its temperature controlled distribution centres across the UK, this investment in the environment… Read more »
EnviroBuild will become carbon neutral by engaging sustainable logistics company
EnviroBuild Materials Ltd is moving warehousing and logistics to champions of sustainability, Howard Tenens Logistics. Howard Tenens Logistics are a quality focused, independent family business delivering mutual value through great people, collaboration and technology. It’s a bold step to further progress the company’s mission to become a carbon-neutral company. Howard… Read more »
RHA welcomes news of changes to border control timings
The RHA has welcomed Michael Gove’s announcement of a delay to post-Brexit SPS import checks until October. The association believes it buys valuable extra time for traders and hauliers to prepare for the new complex border arrangements. Commenting, RHA chief executive Richard Burnett said: “Mr Gove’s announcement will, of course,… Read more »
Pallet-Track launches its Hooray for Hauliers campaign
Logistics business Pallet-Track has launched a national ‘#HoorayforHauliers’ campaign to celebrate the role of the key worker drivers who have kept Britain moving throughout the pandemic, as well as navigating Brexit on top of the day-to-day challenges of long hours and even longer distances to deliver for the nation. The… Read more »
HOYER UK and Puma Energy announce five year contract extension
HOYER PETROLOG UK has agreed an extension of its contract with Puma Energy UK for a further five years, running until 31st October 2026. The contract for delivery of bitumen on behalf of Puma Bitumen, a division of Puma Energy UK, from the Stolthaven Dagenham terminal and ABP South Wales’s… Read more »
Pursuit of perfection delivers contract renewal with SAICA Paper
SAICA Paper, one of Europe’s largest recycled paper producers, has commended high standards of service and strong focus on continuous improvement at Menzies Distribution Solutions (formerly Bibby Distribution) after extending its contract with the company for a further three years. The new agreement will see Menzies continue to oversee the… Read more »
Inter-haul signs lucrative £15 million contract
Maintaining fresh air circulation in all residential, commercial and industrial properties has never been so important, which is why international ventilation giant Nuaire has extended its collaborative, multi-million pound logistics relationship with inter-haul Pallet Services. A founding member of the award-winning Pallet-Track network, Pontypridd-based Inter-haul, which has provided high-quality distribution… Read more »
Network helps charity deliver memorial horse sculpture to UK’s largest deep shaft mine
It was a fairytale ending for Prince, the commemorative pit pony sculpture who needed to make his 200-mile journey ‘home’ to Britain’s deepest seam mine at Chatterley Whitfield, an industrial time capsule near Stoke-on-Trent. Award-winning logistics business Pallet-Track answered the pleas of the Friends of Chatterley Whitfield charity to use… Read more »
Border control as Pallet-Track signs up Hicks Logistics
Award-winning Pallet-Track has continued its strategic membership expansion by starting 2021 with the addition of Hicks Logistics, one of Wales’ largest haulage companies. Based at Caldicot, near Chepstow, and employing almost 80 staff, Hicks, which is also one of the UK’s leading low-loader specialists, will take over the Welsh border… Read more »
HTA engage The Transafe Network to look at Safer Abnormal Load Escorting
The Heavy Transport Association has initiated the first in a new programme of projects that will look at various aspects of the movement of abnormal indivisible loads, analysing good practice from the UK and elsewhere in the world to ensure that movement of these loads is performed as safely and… Read more »
