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New Bosch diesel technology provides solution to NOx problem. Bosch CEO Dr. Denner also calls for transparency on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
Unprecedented emissions: NOx 10 times lower than limits set for 2020. New Bosch technology retains advantage with regard to fuel consumption and environmental impact.
Dr Denner:
There’s a future for diesel. Soon, emissions will no longer be an issue.
Two wheels make CV Show last-mile moment in exploding world of Express logistics.
MAN launch van, Nissan talk two hundred miles electric and Iveco go gas with blue van.
IOC in Birmingham to walk the 50,000 metre exhibition space of the Commercial Vehicle Show at the NEC - halls 3, 3A, 4 and 5, with the workshop area for the mechanics.
Twenty thousand visitors expected for the three-day extravaganza of all vehicles commercial.
Whistl move to private cloud to facilitate product and international expansion.
Whistl is migrating its business-critical applications to Ensono Private Cloud to aid the expansion of the business and provide greater scalability and cost efficiency, including its core logistics platform that helps process over 4 billion mail items per year.
Whistl will migrate business critical workloads to Ensono’s private cloud platform, including its core logistics platform.
The transformation of its IT infrastructure provides Whistl with a hybrid IT model that will enable it to share workloads between private and public cloud environments as required to support its service offering.
Moya Greene
It's been a pleasure and a great privilege to serve as CEO of this cherished UK institution
Friday sunshine announcement from one of the UK's most respected brands - boss of the Royal Mail, Moya Greene is to retire in September.
Moya Greene has done eight years, from a break-even to almost 500 million profit this year. Friday morning share price remained stable over £5.60.
Moya Greene will leave the board in July. She arrived at Royal Mail from Canada Post where she held the top slot. The privatisation in 2013/14 and a long-running dispute on pensions have been at the heart of her term.
Institute of Couriers chairman, Carl Lomas looks at the headlines,
Lomas, ‘Infrastructure remains key, fleet charge at a hub or individual driver charge at home ?’
Nigel Banes SMMT, ‘ A patchwork quilt of London geographics, street-by-street compliance is not the way.’
Simon Scarfe TfL, ‘Working with 33 London Boroughs is a big job. Compare it to 33 small cities’
Sam Clarke Gnewt, ‘ Working in silos will create a long road to success.'
Tracey Worth IOC, ‘Clean air is not just about alternative fuel !’
The full house tallied up 24 thousand vans at a single DfT round table, with giant display TVs for the energetic agenda.
Thursday, 12th April at 4.00 pm Regus Heathrow, Bath Road.
IOC chairman Carl Lomas was a guest of Hounslow Chamber at the oblong table of the Regus office at Heathrow with shippers, freight forwarders and handlers talking logistics in a frank and heated exchange opening on infrastructure. ‘Heathrow understands cargo but do they see cargo as a market ?’
Keynotes followed on next generation workforce, e-retail digitisation and a finish on alternative fuel vehicles for clean air at Heathrow.
IOC Chairman Carl Lomas, sec of the DfE Inst for Apprenticeships Express employer group talks employment status and levy qualifications.
Lomas met Ben from Yodel to explain the latest position of apprenticeship qualifications for the Express sector and take a broad look at the IOC Taylor response document.
Capturing his thoughts - It’s a sector-wide issue, there is a lot of material on the IOC web worth a look, easy summaries for both Taylor, the IOC response and the March 2018 Good Work document response. There is also a full bubble on the express qualifications where the first delivery that uses levy is very close at both manager and frontline driver level.
An ocean of space, painted shades of blue, 21m tall, speculatively built on the M1 Middle England corridor at the heart of exploding e-retail.
IOC maintained its influence on the work of Local Enterprise Partnerships in the last week of March. As an active member of the SEMLEP Logistics Forum we contributed to an event at the Altitude building at Magna Park in Milton Keynes.
SEMLEP is viewed by government as the most effective of the LEPs and other LEPS are adopting their ideas on employer engagement and implementation of local growth plans. In the SEMLEP area, logistics employs nearly 100,000 people, so IOC's work with SEMLEP ensures the needs of the Express Delivery sector are to the fore in their plans.
Discussion in the Forum – attended by employers, local councils, training organisations and academics from nearby Cranfield University - covered career pathways for young people and ways to promote apprenticeships in the sector.
Mike Brown opened the Friday morning event with group focus on how TfL can work in partnership with the freight industry and business community to deliver the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS).
Big final mile players in the room - Hermes, DPD & DHL among the final mile folk - Ocado & John Lewis.
Exploding express, a third of all transport today is final mile and it was well represented.
Academics from Westminster and Sheffield.
Heavy truck folk talked parking tickets dominating but real focus was on Mayor's Transport Strategy; find an easy link to the new document on the IOC web.
Sadiq Khan Mayor of London
Transport is a cornerstone of my vision for a fairer, greener, healthier and more prosperous city.
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