VMS Refrigeration has supplied refrigerated vans to Ticco Foods, a leading supplier to foodservice customers across the UK and Ireland.

Dutch fashion giant Varova is to centralize its logistics by tripling its distribution centre in Arnhem, The Netherlands. System integrator Inther Logistics Engineering B V is taking overall responsibility for the logistical organisation.

Following up on last fall’s successful campaign to include a port performance statistics program in the federal long-term surface transportation bill, the National Retail Federation is leading a coalition of more than 100 groups in sending specific recommendations to the Department of Transportation.

Cabka-IPS has come up with a potential solution for the efficient handling of bulk bags. The company says the loading equipment is easy to stack; during handling it protects the filled bags from the fork arms of industrial trucks to reduce downtimes and costs.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Dunavant continues to expand its distribution footprint with additional warehouse space at 900 Terminal Road in Fort Worth, Texas.
The strategic addition complements a strong portfolio of logistics and transportation services. The warehouse is additive to the existing Dunavant Dallas terminal.

B&B Attachments, the UK’s leading supplier of fork lift truck attachments has had a record year, with sales of the Intersoft Nexo weighing systems at an all-time high. The Intersoft Nexo weighing system provides support to operations when handling materials on-site, increasing productivity and safety across a diverse range of industrial sectors.

Belgium-based Egemin Automation has partially automated the internal transport of finished products in the new lubricant oil-blending plant of Total Oil Asia Pacific in Singapore. The newly built facility is the largest production site of the Total group in the world. The oil giant now uses E'gv®s (Egemin Guided Vehicles) or automated guided vehicles to transfer pallets from the four filling lines in the production area to the distribution zone. This allows the plant in Singapore to work faster, safer and more efficiently. With the automation project Total aims to increase safety and processing capacity in the plant.

Jungheinrich has announced that it has won the contract to provide the handling systems for IKEA Russia’s new distribution centre. A 45 metre high, high-bay warehouse measuring 200 metres in length and 130 metres in width, the store will offer a total of 210,000 pallet locations.  

The International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA), the resource for warehouse logistics, kicks off a year-long celebration of its 125th Anniversary during the March 13-15, 2016, IWLA Convention & Expo in Orlando, Fla. With the theme, “We’re Just Getting Started,” IWLA is recognizing the past, present, and future of warehouse logistics innovation.

Ports America, the largest stevedore and terminal operating company in the United States, is realigning its West Coast strategy by investing in Los Angeles, Long Beach, the Pacific Northwest and western Canada.