Finance Birmingham Delivers £500,000 For Logistics Firm
Contact Transport Ltd – a logistics firm located in Garretts Green in Birmingham – has received a £500,000 boost from Finance Birmingham, a national provider of funding to SMEs. The…
DPD Marks Chancellor’s Visit With New £150m Jobs Pledge
The Chancellor George Osborne today visited DPD – the UK’s favourite parcel delivery company – to hear about plans for a new £150m investment which will create over 750 new…
Fastlane International’s Manifesto: Introducing Urban Freight Hubs Will Transform UK Cities
With two days to go until the UK General Election, London-based global courier Fastlane International is calling on all the UK’s parties to pledge to reduce congestion, ease access and…
Audi Pilots New ‘Car Boot’ Parcel Delivery Service
A pilot project involving Audi, DHL Parcel and Amazon Prime will allow customers to have parcels delivered straight to their car. Audi has developed a system that enables parcels to…
WGM Engineering Ltd cuts fuel bill by 22% cent with TomTom Telematics
One of Scotland’s leading engineering solutions providers, WGM Engineering Group has cut fuel costs by 22 per cent across its 90-strong fleet of vans using TomTom Telematics’ fleet management platform.…
Delivery Experts Wish Retailers Many Fewer Unhappy Returns
Fastlane International warns misguided sales tactics are undermining success of home deliveries The growth in home deliveries has cut car journeys, eased congestion and lowered emissions, visitors to Multimodal 2015,…
Supreme Court Ruling Provides A Wake-Up Call To Government And Wider Transport Industry
Gasrec welcomes today’s Supreme Court ruling that the UK government must submit new air quality plans to the European Commission no later than 31 December 2015 following its failure to…
Online Flower Power
By Becky Clark, CEO, NetDespatch As the weather starts to get more clement, so we all look to our gardens and start to think about what we need to do…
Van Operators Forecast Wider EV Adoption Within Two Years
Greater adoption of electric and other new fuel technologies is being forecast by van fleet operators over the next two years, according to the latest quarterly Company Van Trends research…
Poundworld Announces Parcel Delivery Prices as it Launches Online Store
High street bargain store Poundworld has launched its very own online shopping site in the form of Poundworld Plus. The huge e-commerce website will stock more than 4,000 products all…