The IOC was on hand as LoCity opened their Fuels In Action roadshow today at Kempton Park racecourse.
A rich mix of alternative fuel providers and users were there to advise future fuel best practice and recount early-days experience with the current crop of alt-fuel tech.
A full house; five hundred registered guests at the Heathrow logistics hot-spot. An explanation of all things clean air for the pending ULEZ regs, April 2019. Alternative fuels is an answer to clean air, but driver training and consolidating deliveries is also the answer.
There was a big speaker line-up; three parallel seminars, all opened by TRL, the govt's Transport Research Laboratory. Operator speakers then took charge to talk real world experience of the new style vehicles. CitySprint spoke about refuelling hydrogen and new IOC fellow Jacquie O'Donovan talked about getting the most miles out of electric in the cold weather with the heaters on.
Carmen Transport Banquet at Mansion House
Rt. Hon. John Hayes CBE MP at the table with IOC fellows as new Vice President of the Institute.
Sec of State for Transport Chris Grayling delivers the keynote,
Transport makes a difference to our country.
Transport is about People.
The Carmen Livery and Awards night Transport Banquet filled Mansion House with a UK-wide transport showcase - multi-modal; road, rail air and sea.
Sec of State Chris Grayling spoke of ‘Transport makes a difference to our country.’
Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Charles Bowman was in attendance to greet guests with the Master Carmen.
The Lord Mayor focused on walking as the key mode to cross the streets of the City of London. He spoke on the impact of Cross Rail, the culture mile it would generate and the new location for the Museum of London for its focus.
Americans talk of Mother's Day starting in 1914. Anna Jarvis resolved to honour the death of her mother in 1908. Her mother’s wish was that someone would one day pay tribute to all mothers. Anna is reported to have written hundreds of letters to officials before she gained the support of the Philadelphian merchant John Wanamaker. Mother's Day became an official U.S. holiday in 1914.
Here in the UK, Mother's Day marks the second logistics peak of the year. Valentines broke all records and today's numbers will likely do the same as final mile home delivery continues to explode. Based in the heart of flower final mile, like Valentine's, the breadth of deliveries has widened beyond all expectations.
Graham Thomas, Ocado, comments
Champagne, Flowers, Chocolates, we'll deliver the Mother of all Sundays
Snow falling in the streets of a multi modal Manchester freight extravaganza, ample networking to talk freight delivery on every level, clean air to congestion, recruitment to kerb space parking.
It was a bicycle to station, train to Manchester and a tram to the venue for four modal streams to the full house Manchester event.
Virtual courier bays, workforce solutions for logistics, train final mile, travel demand management for smart motorways and the four Rs, re-time, re-route, reduce, re-mode.
The Institute of Couriers spent life on the yellow carpet at the Coventry Arena IntraLogisteX trade show, a packed full house of all things logistics in the very last days of February. Snow hit the roads of delivery to challenge final mile express delivery beyond a peak.
Meanwhile in the warm halls of Intralogistex, guests at the show who covered all streams of logistics from road, rail, air and sea were challenged wit the task of defining the term ‘Express’ . Supply chain is the well respected term of material from source to client, purchase, manufacture, storage and logistics. The term logistics defining the transport and storage of the goods. Client chain is a new term driven by e-retail as the client begins to drive the timescales, not the raw materials.
Carl Lomas, chair of the Institute of Couriers and fellow in logistics at the University of Derby delivered the keynote speech on Express final mile logistics to a full seminar, standing room only on the yellow carpets of Coventry arena Intralogistex show.
‘Can we educate the client chain with a carbon solution ?’
‘LoCity electrics, there are two groups, one charging at depot, the other home charging at roadside, the challenges are big at the roadside!’
‘How are we educating our next generation logisticians, the Trailblazer solutions’
Lomas covered the diversity of final mile from parcel and packet mail to clothing and food retail, using his classic Pineapple, multi-modal delivery of groceries free of charge to your door. Exploding express numbers, where did it begin and where will it end ?
IOC asked the question, what is this thing called express ?
Collecting a data sample with the aid of three Universities to look at the belief in the term, final mile - final metre, home delivery, who and what are we as a sector ?
Carl Lomas delivered a keynote speech on Express final mile logistics, innovation and the challenges. Workforce solutions through levy at mid-day on the first day of the show.
Inspection revealed food had been stored safely.
The Colonel is back on the road.
Rare to see our sector make such national news. A run of national meetings in logistics this week, ‘don’t mention the word chicken.’ as the KFC move from Bidvest to DHL unfolded with issues that brought delivery chain awareness to the World.
When big supply chains break it reveals the complexity of what we do and when the paperwork got sorted the news was good.
Rugby Borough Council
the food was stored safely.
IOC from Down-Under with Bob Black to out East
Prof Ming Lim takes new IOC role as head of Asia interest group
Tracey Worth reports,
The IOC is pleased to announce the spread of our institute as we see IOC Fellows work around the world. Bob Black a Founding Fellow, of TNT now heading up Australia and New Zealand and now we are pleased to announce that IOC Fellow Dr Ming Lim will chair our Asia Group as he takes up the post as Dean of College at Chongqing University, China.
DfE Institute for Apprenticeships hosted a supply chain advisory group in last days of February, a hot-house of expertise defining the roles and occupations.
Insitute of Couriers chairman, Carl Lomas, secretary to the Express trailblazer group joined a rich attendance list from Nestlé to Royal Mail, DHL to K&N.
Guests represented rail, maritime ports & road logistics - IOC for express. RHA for LGV, FTA for warehouse and storage. Kevin Shakespeare, Inst of Export talked air. The event hosted at the Institute of Apprenticeships' Coventry HQ closed with a unanimous reality. ‘We need a career map for supply chain.’
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