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Scania participates in pioneering UK HGV electrification feasibility study
Jul 27, 2021
Scania is to participate in a major feasibility study into the operation of long haul electrified trucks utilising dynamic charging provided by overhead wires on electric roads.
UKWA Chief appeals for exemption from self-isolation for warehouse workers
Jul 27, 2021
Clare Bottle, the new Chief Executive of the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA), has written to Rachel Maclean, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, making a case for logistics workers to be exempt from self-isolation as the ‘pingdemic’ sweeps the country causing shortages of supplies.
Leicestershire logistics firm investing thousands in free training courses to tackle HGV driver shortage crisis
Jul 27, 2021
A forward-thinking Leicestershire logistics firm is pledging to invest tens of thousands of pounds in free training courses to help tackle the chronic shortage of HGV drivers in the UK.
75% of consumers want connected packaging to help them recycle reveals new report
Jul 27, 2021
A new report launched by SharpEnd, an experience-led full-service partner to some of the world’s biggest brand owners across connected packaging and retail, reveals why consumers engage with connected packaging using different technologies such as QR, NFC and AR - unearthing some surprising consumer trends and attitudes.
Independent study reveals good air quality around the Port of Tyne
Jul 27, 2021
Air quality around the Port of Tyne is ‘good’ and well within the required national standards, an independent inventory of pollutant gas emissions has concluded.