Logistics & Material Handling News, Videos, Research and Product Reviews

The growth of e-commerce is driving warehouse, distribution, and fulfilment centres to utilise larger structures, automated systems, and engineered elevated work platforms that can deliver faster logistics and shipping.

Employees at Wolverhampton logistics business Pallet-Track are putting their best feet forward for an important cause by taking part in an innovative ‘Keep Moving’ challenge to raise funds for West Midlands-based St Basil’s, one of the UK’s leading charities working to prevent young people becoming homeless.

Staff at Logistics UK, the business organisation based in Tunbridge Wells, have used the lockdown period as an opportunity to successfully complete a variety of training qualifications to benefit the work they deliver for the business group’s members.

Volker Kirchgeorg will take the reins at Siemens Digital Logistics GmbH this month (March). The company specialises in the digital transformation of logistical processes and, with its end-to-end software and consulting solutions, is a leading IT provider in global supply chain management.

Shippeo, the European real-time transportation visibility solutions provider, has partnered with Tesisquare, the provider of supply chain execution applications, to enhance the Tesisquare Transport Management Systems (TMS) product offering with new real-time transportation visibility (RTTV) capabilities.

Robust, maneuverable, durable and flexible: These are just a few of the claimed features of the new electric pedestrian pallet truck from Linde Material Handling with 1.5-ton load capacity.

Since 2008 thyssenkrupp Steel Europe has been using Transporeon’s time slot management to coordinate the loading and unloading of trucks.

ULMA Packaging UK’s ability to adapt its packaging machinery service offering to meet 2020’s pandemic-influenced working conditions has seen the company honoured for its support by a leading biscuit brand.

By Ed Smith, freelance journalist.

Waste management is a problem in warehouses across the UK. Fortunately, there are a few ways you can minimise your business’s carbon footprint and improve your brand’s image in the process.

The pandemic has propelled ecommerce to new heights, making online retailers’ use of oversized, wasteful packaging unsustainable, writes Jo Bradley, Business Development Manager for packaging solutions at Quadient.

Locus Robotics, the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider for fulfilment warehouses, has announced US$150 million in Series E funding, led by Tiger Global Management and BOND.The round builds on support from existing investors including Scale Venture Partners and Prologis Ventures, the venture capital arm of Prologis, the logistics real estate company.