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Industry news of relevance to Fellows and Members
Alina Tuerk TfL Silvertown Tunnel opens April 7th 2025.
Setting the charges.
Alina gave a frank and detailed explanation of charge rates, discounts and autopay, including pre-registration.
‘We have set open year user charges.’ ‘Autopay will bring a discount’
Express logistics – cleanest sector in road transport
Maintaining the company’s position as having the largest electric delivery fleet in the UK.
Inst of Couriers - The 2025 dates for your final mile diary.
Express Final Mile Logistics heads of industry IOC round table Jan 28th.
Hosted in the City of London.
Free of charge to fellows – set your diary.
...Double Hot off the Press, Alina Tuerk, Head of Transport Strategy & Planning at TfL will be at table to talk opening of Silvertown Tunnel route for East London...
...Hot off the Press, MCIA boss Tony Campbell will speak on access to bus lanes for light and two-wheels.
Yodel has announced it will be opening 56 new store locations across Northern Ireland, as part of its plans to strengthen its delivery offering across the region.
This expansion plan comes off the back of Yodel’s partnership with PayPoint, enabling Yodel to join forces with Spar Northern Ireland, owned by Henderson Group.
IOC ask "What is a Cargo Bike?"
A lively January IOC sub group meet for the Cargo Bike operators, with both London-centric members and national brands operating cargo bikes UK-wide was chaired by Alan Dickinson from Evri in early January 2025.
IOC Road Safety group chair, Chris Floyd comments for Jan 2025 on Tachograph retrofitting for goods journeys crossing and recrossing the UK / Ireland border.
· Investment in operations and service of around £35m helps deliver record 173 million parcels in the nine weeks to 28 December 2024 [1], up 12% on last year
· Evri delivered biggest-ever individual trading week for parcels of 24.7m, as customers grabbed Black Friday (29 November 2024) bargains during a price-focused ‘thrift-mas’ [2]
· Almost 4,000 parcels delivered to UK households every minute in peak delivery weeks
Yodel helped Kids in Mind deliver thousands of toys to children across the country for Christmas Day.
DPD supports Cody Dock habitat restoration project next to Docklands super-hub.
DPD has donated £50,000 to Gasworks Dock Partnership to support the nature conservation work at Cody Dock on the banks of the River Lea, adjacent to its flagship London sortation centre, Docklands.
Industry encouraged by DfT to shape UK transition to zero emission vehicles
DfT seeking views on how to restore the 2030 phase-out date for new purely petrol and diesel cars and make the transition to zero emission vehicles a success.
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