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Post Peak Pressures in Ecommerce

Post Peak Pressures in Ecommerce

There are five key logistical challenges that follow a peak season like Christmas. Stephen Williams, director and co-founder of Fidelity Fulfilment, talks us through them. Much of the retail industry’s attention is focused on...

Luton Airport to Open Consolidation Centre

Luton Airport to Open Consolidation Centre

Pure-play contract logistics provider GXO Logistics and London Luton Airport (LLA) today announced a new partnership in which GXO will operate the airport’s first consolidation centre that will screen all airside deliveries into the...

50th Birthday for Flexi Narrow Aisle

50th Birthday for Flexi Narrow Aisle

Flexi Narrow Aisle Ltd – designer and manufacturer of the ‘Flexi’ brand of articulated forklift trucks – will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2026. Announcing the milestone, Donald Houston, Managing Director of Flexi Narrow...

Adaptive Logistics Strategies

Adaptive Logistics Strategies

Planning is becoming more difficult to hold steady across many logistics operations. Routes that once followed a familiar pattern are now exposed to mid-cycle changes in cost, capacity and network performance that are hard...

Entrance and Loading Bay Systems for New Facility

Entrance and Loading Bay Systems for New Facility

ASSA ABLOY has supplied and installed a comprehensive range of loading bay equipment and industrial doors at a new £42 million advanced manufacturing facility developed for Schneider Electric in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Delivered by...

WMS Boosts Order and Dispatch Management

WMS Boosts Order and Dispatch Management

A wholesaler of cleaning and catering supplies, WARE UK, will equip its new facility in Knowsley, Merseyside, with Mecalux’s Easy WMS warehouse management system. The project supports the company’s distribution and e-commerce strategy while...

Why Mobile Robots Are Changing Material Flow Forever

Why Mobile Robots Are Changing Material Flow Forever

With their move to a new company building, display specialist Holbox seized the opportunity to systematically modernise its internal logistics. For this purpose, Jungheinrich implemented a customised automation solution featuring two mobile robots. Hamburg/Roermond...

A smarter path to supply resilience

A smarter path to supply resilience

The electrical engineering supply chain is under mounting pressure. Costs and lead times for critical components are rising sharply, yet sectors such as aerospace and defence continue to operate with tight margins and limited...

Making Returns Fashionable

Making Returns Fashionable

The hangover of post-Christmas gift returns has exposed core reverse logistics challenges for UK brands over the coming months. With holiday decorations taken down and ‘Returnuary’ over, this year’s piles of unwanted goods amounted...

Inductive & Conductive AGV Battery Charging

Inductive & Conductive AGV Battery Charging

At LogiMAT 2026 Conductix-Wampfler will present energy and data transmission systems for automated intralogistics. In line with the trade fair’s motto, ‘Passion for Details,’ the focus will be on intelligent solutions for automated guided...