Month: October 2025

In the global freight forwarding industry, women occupy fewer than 2% of senior leadership roles — a statistic that has remained stubbornly steady despite years of discussion about diversity. Yet change is gaining momentum, with some of the most compelling examples emerging far from traditional industry hubs, writes Hailey Dreyer of White Cat Studios. In […]

Tiger Trailers has designed, manufactured, and begun supplying forty-nine new temperature-controlled reefers for Greencore – a leading chilled, frozen, and ambient convenience food supplier to some of the most well-known retail and food service customers in the UK – split across thirty-seven single and twelve dual-temperature vehicles. The operator has additionally welcomed to its fleet […]

Every good fulfilment strategy now requires automated, right-sized packaging for every product. David Priestman attended a customer innovation day in Umbria, Italy, to see how things should be done. “There should be no excuses in designing packaging machinery – go beyond limits,” enthused Francesco Ponti (pictured below), the exuberant CEO of CMC Packaging Automation at […]

Staffordshire-based specialist shipping company Robert Wynn and Sons Ltd. has successfully completed a rotor swap for the Paluel Nuclear Power Station transporting a rotor, and its replacement, between France and the Netherlands. The unique heavy lift ro/ro barge Terra Marique loaded a 236-tonne rotor — carried on a 72-tonne trailer — at Fécamp for onward […]

When your warehouse is in China but your customers are scattered across multiple continents, the margin for operational error should be close to zero, writes Mykhailo Lymar (pictured, below), CEO of Meest China. In our case, managing fulfillment at that scale meant building systems that could be trusted to work accurately, at speed, and without […]

When an employee at Columbia Records saw the potential offered by mailroom automation, a true success story was born. Fifty years on, OPEX Corporation has bold new ambitions for Europe. You give your age away if you remember the days of excitedly sending off coins in envelopes to buy items that would arrive at your […]

A new report on robotics and innovation shows that the UK has slipped from 2nd to 5th place in the Global Innovation Index. Britain now has just 112 industrial robots per 10,000 workers which is barely half the EU average and ranks only 24th in the global Robotics Density Index, setting the UK behind. For […]

Peter MacLeod talks exclusively with Siemens’ supply chain guru Alexander Tschentscher about how to develop a logistics landscape with robustness at its core. As supply chains evolve under pressure from global disruptions, regulatory complexity and technological change, Siemens is pioneering a strategic shift by transforming its culture to build not just resilience, but robustness into […]

From compliance to competitive edge, how can supply chain pressure drive decarbonisation? Jack Goodson (pictured, below), Senior Business Development Manager of Equity Energies, answers a key question. When it comes to decarbonisation, for many in transport and logistics the convergence of regulation and customer expectations can feel like yet another operational headache, with the conversation […]

A last mile conference hosted by FarEye revealed a growing appetite for AI and a waning one for carbon reduction, reports Peter MacLeod. I had the pleasure of attending the Last Mile Leaders European Conference in Amsterdam in May, an event hosted and expertly delivered by FarEye. Bringing together retailers, carriers and tech providers from […]