Month: December 2025

How can Europe’s midmarket supply chains prepare for digital product passports? As new EU regulations redefine transparency and traceability, compliance is becoming the driving force behind digital transformation. Carrie Tallett (pictured, below) of Forterro explains how Europe’s midmarket manufacturers and distributors can use ERP to prepare for the Digital Product Passport era. Europe’s industrial midmarket […]

Temu has partnered with Parcel2Go, a parcel delivery comparison site, to offer local sellers more affordable and flexible delivery options. The new collaboration expands shipping choices and reduces postage costs for Temu merchants across the UK. “We’re thrilled to partner with Temu to make shipping more affordable and flexible for UK sellers,” said Andy Currall, […]

Luxaviation ONE, part of the Luxaviation Group – a business aircraft operator – has announced the launch of its Cargo Charter Department, further expanding the Group’s service portfolio with bespoke solutions for complex, time-critical, and specialized freight requirements. The new department delivers expertise across urgent deliveries, humanitarian aid, heavy and outsized cargo, AOG and aircraft […]

How fragmented systems create blind spots in the freight industry, by Gert-Jan de Goeij, CtrlChain’s Vice President Strategy & Growth. The freight industry runs on data but most of it is scattered. Carriers and shippers often rely on more than ten systems every day: transport management tools, telematics apps, spreadsheets, email, and external portals. Each […]

DS Smith, global provider of sustainable and fibre-based packaging solutions, have partnered with Dynamic Logistic Systems (DLS), a manufacturer of automated systems for internal logistics and infrastructure, to create cardboard buffers for the protection of critical industrial machine parts. The new DS Smith packaging innovation consists of a robust side panel that is comprised of […]

Ypê embarked on a major automation project with Joloda Hydraroll to transform logistics operations at its newly acquired greenfield site in São Paulo, improving the company’s quality, safety and environmental impact. Founded more than 75 years ago, Ypê is one of Brazil’s best-known FMCG companies, specialising in the production of household cleaning products. In 2018, […]

While it is fundamentally a pharma product, the logistical complexities of medical cannabis are multifold. Peter MacLeod spoke with Cannabilog’s CEO Yoram Eshel to find out more. Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes for more than 4,000 years. Yet for much of the 20th century it was stigmatised as an illegal narcotic. Today, a […]

Cube robotics pioneer AutoStore presented some eye-catching innovations at an event in Nice in October. Paul Hamblin talks to Russell Holmes, Sales Director, UK and Ireland, about the company’s ability to deliver higher throughput and scalability for its customers. Think AutoStore and you automatically think Cube – the revolutionary and unstoppably successful high-density AS/RS from […]

Has the moment finally arrived for side skirts to be successfully deployed across Europe’s road transport truck network? Just maybe. Paul Hamblin spoke to Almaz Ayupov, Founder and CEO of Dymaxa. Side skirts – aerodynamic devices attached to the side of trailers and semi-trailers to reduce air drag and thus improve fuel efficiency and carbon […]

Global commodity supply chains are being reshaped by the new realities of geopolitics, writes Dan Romanelli, SVP of Quoreka. The combined effects of sanctions, tariffs and regional realignments have up-ended the once-connected network that moved energy, metals, and agricultural products around the world. The result is a trading environment where logistics and risk management are […]