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More on the Nargis air operation in Logistics and Transport Focus

November 5th, 2008 | By: Martin Arrand

I forgot to mention in my post yesterday about last week’s HELP Forum meeting that Mike Whiting has also written about the air operation during Nargis, both the air-bridge from Bangkok and the helicopter operation in-country. Mike was OiC for Aviation for the Logs Cluster, so this is an authoritative account. You can find his [...]

Canals cut emissions – and congestion – for Tesco

November 12th, 2007 | By: Martin Arrand

While working on a European distribution strategy assignment for a client earlier this year, I did some work on how to use lower-carbon multi-modal transport and still get goods to the customer on time. So I was interested to read about Tesco’s latest innovation – bringing imported wine down Manchester Ship Canal by barge. My [...]

Royal Mail’s latest carbon reductions: green logistics or green-wash?

September 23rd, 2007 | By: Martin Arrand

The Royal Mail here in the UK put out a press release last week announcing that it was “piling post hight to reduce environmental impact”. The story relates to the acquisition of 140 double-decked trailers for its distribution network, each with increased carrying capacity that will reduce the total road miles in the system. On [...]

Online sales grow – supply chains change

May 29th, 2007 | By: Martin Arrand

The BBC reported last week that UK online retailing grew by 33.4% to £10.9bn last year. Today the headline was that supermarket Kwik Save was closing 79 stores in a bid to stay afloat. The former story is a well attested trend, and putting it next to the latter is to make a point in [...]