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The Fork Lift Truck Association has further enhanced its Safe User Group service, introducing new resources and including up to five additional sites under a single membership, at no extra cost.

The UK independent parcel network APC Overnight has recently completed the building of their new 138,000 square feet premises in Cannock and installed state-of-the-art sorting equipment following financial support from Barclays.

Cabka-IPS, a manufacturer of plastic pallets and containers for sustainable use, has added container pallets to its successful line of products.

Based in Chichester, West Sussex Barfoots of Botley specialise in growing, processing, packing and selling semi-exotic fresh vegetables to UK retailers.

ACFO members have been urged to sign-up to the Government-backed Plugged-in Fleets Initiative 100 to discover if electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles make sense for their businesses.

Large corporates are showing increasing demand for distributor finance (DF) programmes to enable downstream business in international supply chains, especially in emerging markets. In parallel, global banks are confirming their growing interest in offering DF solutions to their clients.

Millions of dollars of new business and hundreds of international partnerships are set to be created at the Sino-European Freight Forwarders Conference in Barcelona from 20-23 June.

Following the success of it's first ever Ball in 2012, networking and support group, Women in Logistics UK, is holding another charity ball and awards night this September, but this time with three themes to celebrate.

Anyone involved with the supply chain industry can now register to have pallet racking specialist RediRack's 'Rack iT' publication emailed directly to their in-box.

New Thirty one extra plastic pallets available in the UK only through Goplasticpallets.com will be revealed over the next few months as the company launches its new CABKA-IPS pallet range.

The fifteenth edition of the International Logistics and Material Handling Exhibition (SIL 2013) has carried out the SIL 2013 4th Barometer Logistics Circle that analyses the logistics industry.