Tag: logistics
Europe: Mercedes-Benz’s fully electric truck for heavy distribution
Daimler Trucks presented the Mercedes-Benz Urban eTruck in Stuttgart, Germany in July 2016 as the first fully electric truck with an admissible total weight...
Asia Pacific: Fonterra’s smart tankers benefits community
A partnership between Fonterra Co-operative and New Zealand's Southland District Council to improve management of the roading network has won them an award at...
Europe: BASF expands foam solutions with ecovio EA
BASF expands its high performance foam products with the innovative, certified compostable particle foam ecovio EA.
The product is predominantly biobased and, like all...
Europe: New business models open with intralogistics, says Beumer CEO
With Internet, e-commerce and wireless connectivity, intralogistics plays an important role for businesses to expand and scale.
Dr. Christoph Beumer, chairman and CEO of the...
Europe: RPC company releases container with four-way access
RPC Saeplast extends its range of 630 PE containers with a ‘leg’ version, available without a pallet board.
The design provides a four way...
Americas: Team wins competition for cold boxes for rental
A team of MIT and Harvard University students won the first-ever MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize for smart, modular, refrigerated shipping boxes that...
Africa: iFoodbag to reduce food wastage in region with 20M bags
iFoodbag has signed a purchasing contract with Equator One Logistics, with its head office in Nairobi, Kenya to distribute up to 20 million carrier...
Europe: Krones buys company, expands logistics expertise
Krones has purchased 60% of the shares in System Logistics, which the latter is an Italian supplier of solutions for intralogistics, material flow technology,...
Asia Pacific: DHL’s S$160M Advanced Regional Centre opens in Singapore
DHL Supply Chain opens its Advanced Regional Center (ARC) in Singapore worth S$160 million (US$118.783 million).
The 90,000 sqm facility features an S$18.8 million multi-customer...