Hermes UK has opened a pop-up distribution depot at Meteor Park, Aston to be used during peak, creating more than 135 seasonal temporary jobs at the 112,000sqft warehouse. The new facility will be able to handle over 120K parcels each day, and can operate 24/7 as needed. It forms part (more…)
Retailers including Amazon, Ikea, Inditex, Patagonia and Tchibo, are part of a group of nine companies pledging maritime decarbonisation, with a zero-carbon target for ocean freight of 2040. The companies are part of the Cargo Owners for Zero Emissions Vessels, organised by the non-profit Aspen Institute, and have pledged to (more…)
Matalan says that it expects availability to remain “somewhat compromised” over the coming months as it absorbs the impact of supply chain shortages. “In common with the broader retail market, over the last few months we have been feeling the impact of disruption within the inbound product supply chain, delaying (more…)
WMS provider SnapFulfil has invested £2 million in building its team to support growth. The company has expanded with the addition of 20 new team members in roles such as project manager, implementation analyst, network engineer, technical developer and QA manager. The company has seen increased demand from existing customers as (more…)
Supply chain issues and rising costs are driving profit warnings of UK listed companies back to pre-pandemic levels, according to new research from EY. Profit warnings issued by those in consumer-facing sectors, including retail and grocery producers, accounted for 33% of all warnings in the third quarter of the year (more…)
As if the shortage of HGV drivers wasn’t problem enough 91% of HGV drivers in the UK feel undervalued leading to further exodus in the industry, according to a survey by the Pertemps Driving Division, part of the Pertemps Network Group. It showed that 9 out of 10 truckers believe (more…)
Panasonic has launched its new Smartlocker solution into Europe, aimed to handle the drop-off, collection and return of goods from ecommerce purchases, to fast food and groceries. The modular designed system offers a range of four different temperature lockers – ambient, chilled, freezer and heated and are available in a (more…)
One in every five ecommerce transactions is likely to be cross-border in the next four years but shoppers will still abandon purchases if shipping costs are too high, according to new BOXpoll data from Pitney Bowes. It showed that demand is highest among buyers located in the US and China, (more…)
Next month will see John Lewis Partnership open an LGV Driver Academy to train drivers in 13 weeks to sit the DVSA LGV theory and practical safety tests, helping to reduce the industry shortage of LGV drivers. The Driver Academy will train up to 90 people per year at the (more…)
Online marketplace OnBuy.com is to partner with Hermes to add new logistical solutions to its offering. Since its launch in 2016, UK-based OnBuy has amassed more than 7,000 merchants on the platform offering over 36 million products and following a recent £35M Series A+ funding round, OnBuy has developed a roadmap (more…)
DHL Supply Chain has launched Driving Ambition, a new training programme that it hopes will help it to tackle the national driver shortage. It will provide fully-funded training worth up to £3,000 for up to 1,000 applicants to qualify as LGV drivers. The programme is being supported by retailers including (more…)
The Prime Minister has appointed former Tesco chief executive, Sir David Lewis, to the role of Government supply chain adviser to help deal with the supply chains crisis the UK is currently facing. He will operate in an advisory capacity until the end of this year and will advise Boris (more…)
Independent parcel carrier Yodel is recruiting more than 4,300 new staff across its 50 nationwide locations to help it manage the peak period this year. The roles include couriers, parcel sorters and warehouse operatives across the UK. Meanwhile, Royal Mail announced 20,000 temporary jobs last week, available from late October (more…)
Royal Mail has launched its third drone trial in the last year for remote communities. The company is trialling scheduled, autonomous, uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) flights with Windracers for two weeks between Kirkwall and North Ronaldsay (both in the Orkney Islands). It will help better connect the islands and the (more…)
Confidence in the logistics sector is on the rise despite pressing staff and supply shortages, according to the Barclays-BDO Logistics Confidence Index which shows optimism is at its highest levels since H1 2015. The index has risen to 62.5, in contrast to last year’s Index when confidence fell to its (more…)
Tesco has reported sales and profits ahead of expectations at its interims results today, outperforming the market as a whole and crediting its success to its supply chain initiatives and partnerships. “With various different challenges currently affecting the industry, the resilience of our supply chain and the depth of our (more…)
Ocado Group has announced a partnership and £10 million investment in Wayve to accelerate the development of autonomous grocery deliveries for complex urban environments. Wayve offers advanced deep learning and its camera-first technology has the ability to adapt to new, unstructured, highly complex environments, without the need for pre-programming, human-designed (more…)
DP World has opened an 11.5 acre new empty containers park at Southampton in a £3 million investment. The facility will help to increase storage capacity and maintain service levels for customers during the peak pre-Christmas season, the company says. The park will hold additional empty containers to meet customers’ requirements, (more…)
FedEx Express, in collaboration with Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI) Air, has completed its first scheduled drone last-mile delivery flight in Ireland. The delivery, which took place last week, marks the launch of a trial service delivering goods from FMCI, based at Shannon Airport, County Clare, to Foynes Port, County Limerick, Ireland’s second-largest (more…)
Deliveroo has launched its first delivery-only grocery store, Deliveroo Hop, which has launched in Central London in partnership with Morrisons. The new service, available through the Deliveroo app, offers grocery delivery in as little as 10 minutes and complements Deliveroo’s existing grocery offer which already delivers from over 4,600 grocery (more…)