Peak is expected to break +25% increases in the first Express surge of 2018; forecasts for Mother's Day will be based on Valentines which is expected to set new records in home delivery.
Did you get your date night dinner delivered ? Did you send a washing machine to your Valentines ? Did your pet get a loved one present ? As bricks and mortar shopping moves further into tablets and phones, the Express explosion continues to drive supply chain to home delivery, take a look below at the operator quotes .
A New Year, a New Start.
The Logistics and Passenger Transport Campaign 22nd January – 2nd February 2018.
#Jobsthatmove
Jobs that Move - Institute of Couriers chairman Carl Lomas direct from the Logistics Skills Alliance Heathrow summit talks stairways and routes in Job Centre national masterclass call on Express logistics.
The Freight Forwarding Industry is booming. Global trade, e-commerce and restocking contributed to quarter by quarter growth in 2017. With technological change, increased digitisation combined with rising prices it begs the question…. Where is the freight talent pool with the right skills to handle these growing volumes ?
To Joe Public, Freight Forwarding is an unknown, an alien term, not understood and literally a world away. For the majority of people of all ages, they do not know what Freight Forwarding is let alone considering a career in it.
How do we attract new talent and upskill the talent we have? How do we attempt to change the culture and image within the sector? What happens if we maintain the status quo and do nothing?
Join us at the Freight Forwarding Skills Breakfast Summit to try and address these questions and a plan to do something different!
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The action was engage- sort your ‘levy lockdown interview’ - call LSA and use your levy to deliver a next generation workforce.
LSA chair Carl Lomas opened with a big interaction of issues in the Heathrow hot-spot. Two govt depts. Talked passion from DWP and DfT before a spellbound masterclass on final mile food by Ocado national fleet manager Graham Thomas.
DfT policy head Philip Martin focused on the Heathrow & East Midlands Hot Spots of logistics, while DWP JCP Western Region head Nigel Yates spoke recruitment challenges for the logistics sector.
Graeme Baker exposed the myth of levy and detailed the apprenticeships with an interactive stairway of transport quals before James Billingham spoke 2025 vision, Heathrow 3, HS2, explosion of home delivery and next generation workforce.
Dick Stead, chairman remains. Andrew Peeler joined Yodel from the fastest growing Bupa unit in ANZ, and prior to that was involved in the turnaround of one of Bupa’s largest businesses.
Earlier in his career, he played a key role in a successful transformation acquisition for Cadbury Schweppes in the USA and the financial recovery of Premier Foods.
Andrew joined Yodel in September as chief financial officer, has previously held several senior executive and board positions in Europe, America and Australia at international blue chip companies including Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes, Premier Foods and Bupa.
He has broad commercial and financial experience and has been pivotal in both expanding and turning big businesses around.
Chris Grayling stays as Secretary of State and Jesse Norman and Baroness Sugg also stay. Jo Johnson (brother of Boris Johnson) has replaced John Hayes as Minister of State and Nusrat Ghani has replaced Paul Maynard.
· Rail
· Industrial Relations
· London
The Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State (PUSS) are...
Heathrow 2017 record year – 1.7 million tonnes – John Holland-Kaye
John Holland-Kaye has set a record year for the West London hot-spot airport. Close to 1.7 million metric tonnes of cargo passed through Heathrow in what John tells the Logistics Skills Alliance is a port of freight.
Department of Transport keeps its Secretary of State but there is change in the Ministers.
The DfT ministerial was finalised this morning, (Wed 10th January) but the portfolios are yet to be confirmed.
Chris Grayling stays as Secretary of State and Jesse Norman and Baroness Sugg also stay.
Jo Johnson, brother of Boris Johnson, has replaced John Hayes as Minister of State and Nusrat Ghani has replaced Paul Maynard.
John Hayes CBE MP, Minister of State for Transport Legislation & Maritime at the DfT has resigned today (09 Jan 2018).
He will be replaced by Jo Johnson MP who moves from BEIS where his portfolio included Universities, Science, Research & Innovation.
The Junior Minister's responsibilities include
-taxi policy
-transport legislation and Parliamentary liaison and coordination
-transport skills
-maritime policy, including London International Shipping Week
Envisage the logistics sector in less than 10 years from now...
Read our first report on the Logistics Vision data collected at Multimodal 2024 on 11th-13th Jun 2024.
Read our full report on the 2025: Logistics Vision second review event held on 13th November 2018.
Read our full report on the 2025: Logistics Vision first review event held on 30th January 2018.
Read our full report on the 2025: Logistics Vision launch event held on 27th September 2017.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today launched a consultation on proposals to expand the reach of Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) emission standards for HGVs to vehicles of this class operating anywhere in London by October 2020.
The consultation also seeks views on plans to expand the geographical area of the ULEZ itself for remaining classes of motorised vehicles - cars, light vans and motorcycles - by October 2021.
The Mayor has already announced that the Ultra Low Emission Zone will be introduced in central London over a year early in April 2019, replacing the T-Charge with an even tighter emission standard.
East London tops the 2017 List for Black Friday Cyber Monday.
Nick Langdon, boss of Royal Mail Parcels reveals the geographic hot spots for 2017 Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Royal Mail today reveals the top ten areas in the UK where shoppers made the most online purchases over the course of Black Friday weekend
East London tops the list, followed by Kirkwall (Orkney, Scotland), Llandrindod Wells (Wales) and Milton Keynes.
The top ten is based on analysis of parcels accepted from retailers and businesses into the Royal Mail network between 20th November and 28th November.
Royal Mail has opened six dedicated parcel sort centres and recruited an additional 20,000 temporary staff to support its seasonal operation.