Logistics Skills Alliance launch 2025 Logistics Vision - a national platform
Operators at core of discussion for low emission solutions for light vehicles, cargo bikes and small vans
Lomas opened with a pineapple example of supply chain delivered to the door in the exploding e-retail final mile client chain.
Sam Clarke Gnewt, ‘It's crazy not to have parking next to charge points.’
Kevin Valentine, Addison Lee, ‘You need to scale up the rapid charges really fast.'
Rob Scott Greater London Hire, GLH, ‘We all need to be more joined up with a common view of clean air.’
June sunshine, football fever as TfL LoCITY light vehicle group packed the Broadway TfL building in SW1, no seats left in the house, operators talking real delivery of clean air included, CitySprint, Addison Lee, Ocado and UPS as frank exchanges detailed the understanding of real world steps, for April 2019 ULEZ and what was going to be beyond.
London's City Hall for the Commercial EV Trial – One Year In Event.
LSA Chairman Carl Lomas was in the dome of glass with vistas from the Tower of London to HMS Belfast talking clean air at the heart of the govt of London with GLA in City Hall and express folk including Addison Lee, CitySprint, GLH, Hermes, Premier, TNT, ZE Cargo.
Sam Clarke Gnewt Cargo delivered the keynote vehicle speech. Patrick Feehily, ‘We need to get smarter about when and where we get local energy’ Christina Calderato spoke LoCITY, ‘we are helping fleets prepare for ULEZ.’ Venn Chesterton talked innovate UK project on freight trials and asked the question 'how clean is gas for alternative fuels?’.Andy Steele, delivered the results of the EV Trial one year in. ‘Smaller vehicles in the trial got to park close to delivery locations while larger vehicles had to park further away.’
DDC Warehouse and storage in the inspirational postcode of the East Midlands Gateway – LSA report next half million goes to XPO for Nestle.
Looking at the East Midlands heartland, named the Inspirational postcode by LEP chairman Peter Richardson of D2N2, ‘eighty per cent of the UK within four hours drive on the tacho.’
The giant site on the M1 J24 exit has its latest success story as Nestle are to work with XPO on a high tech half million feet shed.
Top flight landing as Eddie the Eagle lands on stage to present Swift Logistics a West Berkshire win.
Eddie the Eagle announces,
This year’s Most Committed Organisation to Learning award goes to the Swift Logistics Group, a Newbury-based distribution and warehousing company.
Tracy Aust, Logistics Skills Alliance, West Thames College, congratulates Swift boss Adrian Smith. Adrian comments,
Our view at Swift is simple. investment and support of your community and the development of youth is a sound investment in your own future, we follow this mantra in all our decisions and investments in both our business activities and many and varied communities support programs. Our community matters. It’s sustainable, responsible and effective, and more importantly- it feels great!
LSA in Manchester with the Warehouse Technology Group WTG conference.
LSA chair, Carl Lomas got hands-on in the warehouse, now enjoying its eighth year – the event was a combination of keynote presentations, live demonstrations, advice clinics and networking for logistics and warehousing professionals.
Keynote speaker Mike Vernon, Head of Innovation at Kuehne & Nagel UK shared his extensive experience in employing warehouse technology to reduce costs, increase throughput and deliver a better customer experience.
Whistl acquisition of Parcelhub and Mail Workshop
Whistl is the UK's largest Downstream Access Business Mail provider and is actively pursuing growth strategies in the doordrop media, parcels, fulfilment and international markets across the UK.
FORS practitioner standard in the new Trailblazer degree apprenticeship.
Fleet operator recognition scheme, FORS was built and designed for trucks, tachographs and trailers at its heart. Bronze, silver and gold FORS accreditation stickers are on the back of almost five thousand trucks today.
FORS is almost ten years old and is set to launch version five of the standard at this year’s national conference in Middle England on October 16th.
FORS looks set to re-focus on vans and even include powered two-wheelers for this decade’s showcase of road safety standards.
Logistics Skills Alliance at the UK and Ireland's largest transport and logistics event - Multimodal 2018
- 225 exhibitors
- 9,500 visitors
- 35 conference sessions
- 85 speakers
- The Multimodal Mixer - networking for exhibitors and visitors
- 12 Awards
Exclusive sneak-peek of the exhibitor stands before the doors even open ! see our photo-gallery of the stands
UK national transport showcase for all things logistics, Ford, Citroen, Fiat, LDV, Peugeot and Renault all showcasing the vans in back to back floor space. Highways England in hall three, Shell and Goodyear in hall five,
MAN launch van, Nissan talk two hundred miles electric and Iveco go gas with blue van.
Bosch ceo, Dr Denner:
There’s a future for diesel. Soon, emissions will no longer be an issue.
Moya Greene
It's been a pleasure and a great privilege to serve as CEO of this cherished UK institution
Friday April 20th announcement, Moya Greene is to retire this September.
Moya Greene has done eight years, from a break-even to almost 500 million profit this year. Friday morning share price remained stable over £5.60.
Moya Greene will leave the board in July. She arrived at Royal Mail from Canada Post where she held the top slot. The privatisation in 2013/14 and a long-running dispute on pensions have been at the heart of her term.
Thursday, 12th April at 4.00 pm Regus Heathrow, Bath Road.
Logistics Skills Alliance chairman Carl Lomas was a guest of Hounslow Chamber at the oblong table of the Regus office at Heathrow with shippers, freight forwarders and handlers talking logistics in a frank and heated exchange opening on infrastructure. ‘Heathrow understands cargo but do they see cargo as a market ?’
Keynotes followed on next generation workforce, e-retail digitisation and a finish on alternative fuel vehicles for clean air at Heathrow.
