Yearly Archives: 2023

GXO has expanded its partnership with Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F Co), managing the fashion retailer’s UK e-commerce fulfillment and returns from its dedicated, newly refurbished 170,000-square-foot facility near London. The expansion follows the success of GXO’s partnership with A&F Co in the United States, where the company operates a high-tech distribution centre featuring advanced automation and goods-to-person robotics, intelligent analytics…

Parcel delivery company DX Group has invested another £3m to boost its fleet of electric vans for exclusive use in its delivery and logistics partnership with IKEA. The funding, which will see 53 new electric vans added to the fleet, is the group’s second major round of funding in electric vehicles for its IKEA contract. It follows the launch of…

It’s Bluewater Innit? It started in 1999! If you want to go to Bluewater by train, you might try Greenhithe for Bluewater station. But you would probably want to catch a bus! Fastrack B will get you there. But let’s indulge in a little;e nostalgia. Once upon a time the village of Greenhithe sat happily on the lush and verdant…

Dutch multinational Janssen Group is continuing its drive into the UK market with the acquisition of Maltacourt Global Logistics. This is Janssen’s second acquisition in the UK logistics sector this year, following its takeover of Norman Global Logistics in March. Announcing the deal, Janssen Group described freight forwarding firm Maltacourt as a “highly respected and rapidly growing player” in the…

The Generation Logistics campaign, which aims to improve recruitment and retention in the logistics workforce, has won another year of government funding. The £300,000 of DfT funding – down 13% from last year’s £345,000 award – will be used to focus largely on raising the profile of logistics in schools and colleges, by supporting educators with resources and material. As…

 Remember Superloop? It’s Mr Khans spiffing idea to have a limited stop bus service right round London sort-off following the North and South Circular roads – but it has a huge gap where the loopy route doesn’t cross the Thames on its Eastern flank. So it won’t be a proper loop let alone a super one! The section featured in…

• Tube pickpocketing up as police report stats (Standard) • The problem w/ Rowan Atkinson’s take on electric cars, is too many electric cars (LloydAlter) • The work of Tube fluffers, now called track cleaning teams, has evolved (BBC) • North America’s first platform screen door subways & métros: Video (RMTransit) • The ups & downs of the elevator industry:…

Is There A Link? The model railway world was surprised to hear the news that Simon Kohler was “retiring” from Hornby, a departure that happened at the end of May. He shot to fame with a wider audience as a star of two TV series entitled “Hornby A Model World” broadcast on the “Yesterday” Channel. Then we heard that Simon…

A Treetise On Trees (?) Part 1 Joyce Kilmer was (a) a bloke, (b) an American, (c) a poet and (d) a bit of a one hit wonder! He is remembered for a poem about trees. The sentiment is slushy, typically Victorian (penned in about 1900) and not very well thought of in serious poetry-loving circles. But fbb agrees profoundly…

Topless In Derbyshire. As a bus spotter, armed with your camera and notebook, you might choose to stand somewhere along the A623 between Baslow and Calver. You may choose to lurk outside Hulleys depot … … and watch the comings and goings whilst waiting for FOUR open top bus movements, (three northbound and one southbound) performed by THREE different open…