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Time-critical and Go-Now charter experts CharterSync put its platform to the test when a freight forwarder wanted a 50-tonne shipment moved from Ostend to North Carolina at short notice. The machinery at 458 cubic metres needed specialist handling loading and transportation. The complexities of the shipment required multiple cranes and an available Antonov-124, one of the few cargo planes available to handle a load of this magnitude.

Leading provider of industrial robots, KUKA, offers tailor-made automated solutions for customers in a wide variety of industries. The Italian headquarters of KUKA recently turned to Yale® dealer Unicar to provide Yale materials handling equipment for its Turin warehouse.

Hermes UK, the leading consumer delivery specialist, has achieved a 4.4/5-star rating on leading review site Trustpilot, higher than any other UK parcel carrier.

Every day, technology becomes more and more crucial in every aspect of how we do business. But perhaps one of the places where emerging technologies are the most prominent is in warehousing and logistics.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson could be on the verge of a deal with European diplomats. Details of the negotiations haven't been released and questions have lingered about how any potential deal will treat the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Speedy Freight, the UK’s leading provider of urgent or sensitive transport, has further expanded to the South East, with new branches in Stevenage and Cambridge. New Speedy Freight Franchisee, Zamir Mohammad will lead these branches and establish up to 30 local jobs for Preferred Owner Drivers.

The EU will invest more than €117m in sustainable transport infrastructure through the Connecting Europe Facility funding mechanism.

Lödige Industries, global market leader in air cargo terminals has announced it will unveil its latest innovation for intelligent automated Unit Load Device (ULD) transportation at the”Inter Airport Europe 2019“ trade show in Munich. The computer-controlled wheel-based carrier features a 5-foot and 10-foot model for different sizes of ULDs, with the larger variant capable of lifting and transferring palletized loadings.