While fuel is an essential resource for many industries, it’s also a highly-dangerous and flammable material – one that should be handled with the utmost care. If your business stores fuel on-site or requires your team to transport or handle fuel regularly, you need to take certain precautions. In this …
Read More »UK Fuels launches Money-Saving Fuel Card to help fleets manage rising costs
UK Fuels has launched a money-saving fuel card in response to rising fuel prices. The Fleetone card gives guaranteed discounts of up to 10 pence per litre on both diesel and unleaded fuel, providing a game-changing solution for fleets of all types and sizes. With access to the UK’s largest …
Read More »How Comparison Services can help you find the right Business Energy Supplier
For many businesses, investing time comparing gas and electricity prices doesn’t seem worth the effort. However, overpaying for your gas and electricity can be costly, especially for high energy usage businesses. Warehouse, storage, and distribution centres rely heavily on gas and electricity to keep their business going. Taking the time …
Read More »Methanol-Fuelled ships less costly to build and operate than those burning LNG
Methanol as a commercially and technically viable marine fuel is gaining greater traction over other alternative bunkers, including LNG, as more shipowners adopt the clean burning fuel as price spreads narrow and production ramps up. Speaking at a virtual conference last week, Greg Dolan, CEO of the Methanol Institute, a …
Read More »How are oil prices impacting on the UK Building Material Market?
While global oil prices may have closed 2020 near the average for 2015-2017 ($52 per barrel), this relatively happy ending masks an incredibly volatile and turbulent 12 months. After all, April saw US crude plunge into negative territory, while the price of Brent declined below the $20 per barrel mark …
Read More »Clean Planet Energy unveil two new Ultra-Clean Marine Fuels, made from non-recyclable plastic waste
Clean Planet Energy has released details of two new ultra-clean fuels manufactured to replace fossil fuels in the Marine industry, for use in any ship or vessel. The products branded under the banner of “Clean Planet Oceans” can provide CO2e reductions of over 75 percent, and significantly reduce harmful air-pollutants …
Read More »World’s first Fuel Cell Heavy-Duty Truck, Hyundai XCIENT Fuel Cell, heads to Europe for commercial use
Hyundai Motor is shipping the first 10 units of XCIENT Fuel Cell, the world’s first fuel cell heavy-duty truck, to Switzerland Hyundai will roll out 50 trucks this year and total of 1,600 units by 2025 Powered by 190-kW hydrogen fuel cell system, XCIENT Fuel Cell can travel approximately 400 …
Read More »How can fuel infrastructure expansion and maintenance ensure increased demand in the supply chain is fulfilled?
Ensuring continuity of supply in the logistics industry is of critical importance at this challenging time. Richard Campbell at Adler and Allan explains the opportunities for temporarily expanding fuel infrastructure, and the importance of maintaining your existing fuel infrastructure to ensure compliance and safety. According to DEFRA, food manufacturers have …
Read More »Budget 2020: Fuel duty rise bad for UK economy and no help for environment says FTA
In its Budget 2020 submission, FTA, the only business organisation which speaks on behalf of all of the logistics sector, has raised concerns about the negative impacts the speculated rise in fuel duty would have. According to Christopher Snelling, Head of UK Policy at FTA, such a change would cause …
Read More »BELL FLOW SYSTEMS: New BRM-88 ATEX Manual Fuel Transfer Pump
Gespasa have released the new model BRM-88 ATEX manual rotary hand pump for the transfer of petrol, solvents and fluids compatible with Viton. This BRM-88 ATEX pump is adaptable for barrels of different sizes between 50-200 Litres and is ideal for non-fiscal operations. It has a 2″ BSP Bung adapter …
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