28 October 2008 –The European logistics sector represents over one million companies that employ approximately five million people. In France, 1,516,000 people are employed by the industry. The logistics sector has become an industry in its own right, with consistent positive market growth. Various factors are at the root of …

Operational and management failures highlighted Anglian Water Services Ltd (Anglian Water) has today (Tues) been fined a total of £150,000 for four times allowing illegal discharges from its sewage treatment works in Newmarket to the No 1 Public Drain – on one occasion bringing about the death of 1,200 fish. …

Alma Media Interactive Oy, owner of Mascus, the Pan European on-line marketplace for used machinery and transport vehicles together with Inform Media Kft. opens office in Ukraine Another European office for Mascus Mascus, the Pan European on-line marketplace for used equipment and transportation vehicles opens another office, this time in …

Vinyl 2010 is proud to announce the launch of another Essay Competition, this year providing young people aged 18 to 30 years throughout Europe, and the rest of the world, with the opportunity to have their say on today's food and energy crisis, and how they think it can be …

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents today welcomed a report from the House of Commons Transport Committee saying that more needs to be done to investigate deaths in work-related road accidents. Kevin Clinton, RoSPA Head of Road Safety, said: “RoSPA has been campaigning about managing occupational road risk …

Some 35,000 part-coded components – many held in high volume – are now housed in a new Link 51 two-tier shelving facility installed for power generation company, Sembcorp Utilities UK Ltd. The project at the organisation's Middlesborough premises is now meeting not only Sembcorp's own internal component supply requirements, but …

Faster vehicle loading and unloading with less manhandling is being achieved at Firebox.com as a result of using Thorworld loading bay equipment. The on-line retailer, which specialises in toys and games for boys of all ages, recently moved to larger 47,000 sq ft warehouse premises in Croydon which has four …

The United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) – the trade association for the third party logistics sector – says that there is growing evidence that the Government's recent move to scrap rate relief on empty industrial property is having a serious impact on the warehousing industry. “From the feedback we are …

VISIT FTA ON STAND B14, HALL 5 FTA will be amongst exhibitors from every corner of Europe's bus and coach industry at Euro Bus Expo 2008, which takes place at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham from 4-6 November. Visitors to Stand B14 will be receive FTA's new 2009 training …

for logistics and transport. Runcorn, UK, 11 September 2008 – The mobile computing specialist JLT UK is offering a comprehensive portfolio of innovative rugged touchscreen industrial computers. This comprises both portable and fixed-mount devices that provide industry-leading features such as high capacity flash drives and dual-core processors in some models. …