DPD set to open £150m parcel hub in Leicestershire
DPD’s £150m parcel hub in Hinckley, Leicestershire will be fully operational ahead of the Black Friday and Christmas period, the parcel delivery group has confirmed.
DPD’s £150m parcel hub in Hinckley, Leicestershire will be fully operational ahead of the Black Friday and Christmas period, the parcel delivery group has confirmed.
A campaign group protesting about the government’s continued rollout of smart motorways will carry a long procession of burial coffins to the department for transport’s office building next week.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget was an “olive branch” for logistics firms who have finally heard some good news from the government, according to parcel delivery service ParcelHero.
The government has effectively offshored UK haulage work to foreign operators after announcing it had slackened the rules on cabotage, according to the RHA.
So, the government has another genius solution to wreck the transport industry further through changes to the cabotage rules. All these ‘solutions’ will not fix the industry, they will harm it further.
Hermes UK has opened another pop-up distribution depot, this time at Meteor Park in Birmingham. The delivery firm said the move created 135 seasonal jobs at the 112,000 sq ft warehouse, which opened ahead of the peak Black Friday and Christmas periods.
ELB Partners has spent more than £1m future-proofing its fleet after investing in nine new Volvo FM Globetrotters.
Wincanton has won a five-year contract with children’s toys manufacturer MGA Entertainment, providing final mile deliveries to retailers and customers’ homes.
CNG Fuels is to host HGV hydrogen fuel trials across its UK network of public access biomethane refuelling stations.
The RHA has welcomed moves to help the transport and logistics sector contained in the government’s Autumn Budget which it said were “campaigning wins for the organisation”.