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Survey on tethered caps: Consumers prioritise product safety and user-friendliness

Survey on tethered caps: Consumers prioritise product safety and user-friendliness

Jun 12, 2021 Articles, Green Supply Chain, News in General Comments Off on Survey on tethered caps: Consumers prioritise product safety and user-friendliness

Tethered caps – closures that stay connected to the bottle when opened and used – will become an everyday part of life for consumers in the EU starting in July 2024. Sidel carried out a survey to...
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GEODIS creates new global management training programme

GEODIS creates new global management training programme

Jun 12, 2021 Articles, Logistics News, News in General Comments Off on GEODIS creates new global management training programme

GEODIS is launching “Manage!”, a programme designed to support its 8,000 managers around the world. Built around the company’s 7 Leadership Principles, it aims to strengthen their...
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ECOncrete Wins EU H2020 Funding to Lead the “LIVING PORTS” Project

ECOncrete Wins EU H2020 Funding to Lead the “LIVING PORTS” Project

Jun 12, 2021 Articles, Features, News in General Comments Off on ECOncrete Wins EU H2020 Funding to Lead the “LIVING PORTS” Project

ECOncrete has won the European Commission Horizon 2020 Fast Track to Innovation funding program with a large-scale deployment at the Port of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. In alignment with the EU Green Deal,...
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Latest entrants to the World Logistics Passport

Latest entrants to the World Logistics Passport

Jun 12, 2021 Articles, COVID-19, Global News, News in General, Supply Chain Comments Off on Latest entrants to the World Logistics Passport

Malaysia, Kenya, Paraguay and Ecuador are the latest entrants to the World Logistics Passport New joiners follow Ethiopia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Guinea who joined at the...
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Covid and Brexit have hit transportation and storage harder than any other sector – ParcelHero

Covid and Brexit have hit transportation and storage harder than any other sector – ParcelHero

Jun 12, 2021 Articles, BREXIT, eCommerce, Logistics News, News in General Comments Off on Covid and Brexit have hit transportation and storage harder than any other sector – ParcelHero

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) Business Insights report reveals the shock news that the transportation and storage industry has been hardest hit of all sectors by Covid and Brexit....
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What can consumer behaviour tell us about the future of warehouse design and logistics?

What can consumer behaviour tell us about the future of warehouse design and logistics?

Jun 05, 2021 Articles, Interview, News in General, Storage & Racking Comments Off on What can consumer behaviour tell us about the future of warehouse design and logistics?

by Jon Walkington, Retail and System Integrator Sales Director, at Schoeller Allibert UK For many brands operating today, warehousing and distribution has never been more closely tied to a brand or...
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ISTOBAL reduces plastic in product packaging, in the quest for sustainability

ISTOBAL reduces plastic in product packaging, in the quest for sustainability

Jun 05, 2021 Articles, Case Study, Euro News, News in General Comments Off on ISTOBAL reduces plastic in product packaging, in the quest for sustainability

ISTOBAL, a multinational company specialising in car wash and car care solutions, is reducing the amount of plastic in product packaging as part of a commitment to sustainability. The company...
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Perfect for Electronics: Cortec Bags Offer Dual Corrosion and Static Protection!

Perfect for Electronics: Cortec Bags Offer Dual Corrosion and Static Protection!

May 29, 2021 Articles, Features, Launch pad, Product Launch Pad, Storage & Racking Comments Off on Perfect for Electronics: Cortec Bags Offer Dual Corrosion and Static Protection!

Electronics packaging serves a vast market with a critical need: safely bringing innumerable electronic components on their journey from the manufacturer to the electronics assembly plant or end...
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Steep fall in trade with both EU & non-EU countries – with Brexit having a bigger impact in UK than Covid

Steep fall in trade with both EU & non-EU countries – with Brexit having a bigger impact in UK than Covid

May 29, 2021 Articles, BREXIT, COVID-19, eCommerce, Euro News, Logistics News, Shipping & Freight, Supply Chain, UK News Comments Off on Steep fall in trade with both EU & non-EU countries – with Brexit having a bigger impact in UK than Covid

ONS report looking at the combined impact of Covid and Brexit shows trade with EU countries has declined 23.1%. The report also reveals Brexit problems far outweighed Covid issues in the first...
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FLIP – First fully autonomous vehicle by SberAutoTech with fast-swappable batteries

FLIP – First fully autonomous vehicle by SberAutoTech with fast-swappable batteries

May 29, 2021 Articles, eCommerce, Logistics News Comments Off on FLIP – First fully autonomous vehicle by SberAutoTech with fast-swappable batteries

SberAutoTech, a Sber ecosystem company, has revealed a prototype of its own autonomous vehicle for future mobility, FLIP. The brand-new and fully self-driving vehicle has been developed to match the...
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Strong Recovery in Rail Freight

Strong Recovery in Rail Freight

Freight by Rail volumes begins to recover by Howard Knott as featured in Fleet Transport Sept-Oct edition On 16 August, the Ballina/Dublin container rail service operated by Irish Rail on behalf of...
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Jungheinrich automates production facility for ZF in Schweinfurt

Jungheinrich automates production facility for ZF...

Improving crane efficiency

Improving crane efficiency

Dubai National Insurance & Reinsurance joins the World Logistics Passport (WLP)

Dubai National Insurance & Reinsurance...

Microchip shortage – Economic impact worse than Covid – ECG/FVL

Microchip shortage – Economic impact worse than...

Handling

Goldhofer at GIS 2021, October 7-9, 2021 – Transport solutions for multiple applications

Goldhofer at GIS 2021, October 7-9, 2021 – Transport solutions...

With »STEPSTAR« and »ADDrive«, Goldhofer is presenting flexible, multifunctional and cost-effective transport solutions The new self-tracking semi lowloaders in the »STEPSTAR« series offer top quality engineering, high payloads combined with a low dead weight, and an innovative load securing...
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Improving crane efficiency

Improving crane efficiency