Anyone who’s travelled around remote Scottish islands such as Jura and Islay will know it can be a challenge getting from ‘a’ to ‘b’ by car or van, especially when the weather ‘comes in’. Enter the drone – Royal Mail’s latest initiative aimed at delivering packages in a more reliable, efficient and environmentally friendly way.
Did you know that discarded litter, including drinks cans and plastic bottles, sandwich packaging, discarded plastic wrapping and even fruit, lures hungry animals like hedgehogs and rabbits out of their natural habitats and closer to the roads network, where they are either hit by vehicles or can become trapped and die in tossed litter?
BidBird, an innovator in maritime logistics technology, is developing a freight management system aimed at transforming container handling practices on vessels in port.
Daniella Gonzalez-Green, Accounts Manager, Maersk
July was a particularly busy month in the Logistics UK press office, thanks to a host of media opportunities including the general election taking place earlier in the month and a new government in place.
Oliver Lord, UK head of campaign group Clean Cities has urged the government to ramp up support for businesses in order for them to transfer their fleets over to electric vans, with the aim of city centres becoming zero emission freight zones in the near future.
As a Policy Manager, I’m involved in our trade, customs and border policy work, working on issues related to the internal UK market, the relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU), as well as trade across the short straits in the channel in Kent.
Expanding rail capacity and improving connectivity should be priorities for the new Government, which should consider reviving cancelled sections of HS2, Campaign for Better Transport has said this week on 16 July. The charity is calling on the government to immediately halt the sell-off of HS2 land while the future of the project is reviewed.
Continental is restructuring its tyre line up for general haulage truck applications, offering customers a simpler but more capable range of options.
Lottie Leigh-Browne, Environmental Manager UK & Ireland, GXO
According to figures released on 4 July by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), there was mixed news about van registrations for June 2024 – despite the van sector recording its best first half year since June 2021.
The Department for Transport (DfT) recently consulted on revenue certainty options to support a sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) industry in the UK. The aim of implementing a revenue certainty mechanism is to reduce the risks of uncertain revenues for emerging SAF plants.
Lee Harrison, Supply Chain Development Manager, Kuehne+Nagel
Elise Harris, Tender Management Support, CEVA
The Department for Business and Trade has formed a new logistics team in recognition that it has teams for other major business sectors, but this was missing for the logistics industry.
The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is aimed at incentivising London’s van owners to replace their non-compliant diesel or petrol vans with electric alternatives, and data from Transport for London (TfL) shows that, by the end of May, 372 vans were replaced with electric vehicles.
Weightmans continues to make great strides in its long-held ambition to be one of the UK’s most socially and environmentally conscious law firms. In June 2024, the firm was awarded the highest Platinum rating by EcoVadis, placing Weightmans in the UK’s top 1% of professional services companies for sustainability and social responsibility.
Betsy Porter - Customs Processing Administrator, Maersk
The Van Policy Working Group met this week (Tuesday 25 June) under the new chairmanship of Colin James, General Manager Compliance and Risk at DPD Group UK, to discuss the impact of the new Non-Zero-Emission Van Registration Trading Scheme (VRTS) on vehicle acquisition plans.
Media interest in logistics has continued to be high during June, with the Logistics UK press office busy providing comment on a variety of issues to ensure the views of its members maintain a significant presence in the headlines.
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