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Industry news of relevance to Fellows and Members

A new parcel delivery option

Post Office partners with DPD to offer in-branch customers.

Evri – it's in the Post

Martijn De Lange, CEO of Evri, was interviewed on Radio 4 Tuesday 7th Nov reporting on the new contract agreement with the Post Office.

Rob Nitsch, help us with SME - small and medium enterprises.

84 sector bodies focused on 251 apprentice standards.

National Courier Awards look back.

Express logistics on the rails.

Varamis in Train report for National Courier Awards win.

National Courier Award winners in the press. James Graham from Freight Tracks Digital Magazine reported the Varamis multi-modal express logistics to rail with roller cages from Birmingham To Glasgow.

Save the Sardines - The Inst of Couriers Final mile Puffin has been delivered

Secret surprise, Puffin, will make a final mile delivery at Mansion House for the IOC during the heart of 90 mins TV coverage by the BBC.

Historic turnout with largest mix of express companies ever.

Twenty-four courier Silver Cs in standing ovation celebrations.

DEFRA Minister, Trudy Harrison presenting decarbonisation awards to Evri for zero emission cargo bikes and O’Donovan for HVO fleet.

Step Change showcase of rail, robots and drones. Vamaris, DPD and Royal Mail winners.

Shadow Skills Minster Seema Malhotra delivers express apprentices to next generation at CitySprint and TOLL Logistics.

Cultural impact for Whistl and Smiths News.

Team award to Absolutely for Pharmacy solution.

Arrow XL took the Road Safety David Jamieson award.

 

DPD has this week announced the five finalists they have chosen to participate in the first DPD EcoLaunchpad programme.

Those selected following the recent Pitch Day will go on to work closely with some of DPD's senior leadership team and experts to trial their solutions in a live environment.

This year’s award programme includes five driver-centric categories and four data-driven recognitions.

National Courier Awards decarbonisation award winner.

Evri orders first electric HGV and strengthens its fleet ahead of its peak period.

 

TfL Richard Sylvester, ‘Do freight drivers plan their routes?’

Inst Of Couriers, Carl Lomas said. ‘Yes, express logistics plans routes to every level, even the order of packages on the vehicle is optimised. During the Olympics our sector had great input from TfL on road works and incidents for the route network, this was very beneficial to roads movement.’