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Kerosene – supply and quality
...Distributor Debate earlier this year. Julia, a chemist with 19 years experience in fuel and fuel additives, understands fuel. In her capacity as technical business development manager at Fuel Additive...
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Products for a greener sector
...carbon emissions by targeting 10% savings on fuel. The programme has now reached its halfway point and is getting good take-up from the fuel distributor sector. The recent addition of...
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Fuel distribution landmark for Clugston Distribution
...expanded into bulk fuel distribution in 2012. The company’s dedicated bulk fuel logistics fleet now consists of 18 vehicles, 20 trailers, 32 drivers and two planners serving an ever-growing number...
Analysis
Greening the sector: Dover Fueling Solutions considers the future for fuels
...energy and global platforms, shares her thoughts on the future for fuel with Claudia Weeks, content editor for Fuel Oil News. Can you tell us more about Dover Fueling Solutions?...
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Driver shortages create barrier
...just distributors that are struggling to fill the skills gap, however. A latest report from Logistics UK highlighted that almost one in ten logistics businesses (9.8%) say the recruitment of...
Insight
The chemical supply chain: addressing the sector’s skills gap
...including the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and Logistics UK as official partners of Generation Logistics, an industry-led campaign aimed at bringing industry together, shifting perceptions, and encouraging...
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Unprecedented demand for Transport Manager conferences – Logistics UK says ‘book now’
Logistics UK’s Transport Manager 2022 conferences are set to defy expectations, with over one thousand delegates already booked to attend – 38% more bookings than at the same stage in...
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Logistics UK hosts decarbonisation panel
In a bid to answer some of the logistics industry’s concerns about the switch to zero emission vehicles, Logistics UK hosted a panel session, ‘Funding and financing decarbonisation – obstacles...
Opinion
Supply chain expert says globalisation could be reversing
Logistics and global trade networks could be moving to a new economic order, according to Alan McKinnon, Professor of Logistics at Kuehne Logistics University and keynote speaker at Logistics UK’s...
Opinion
Logistics operators report escalating costs as fuel prices soar
Sharp increases in fuel costs coupled with global supply chain pressures are resulting in a dramatic escalation in cost for UK logistics companies with the economy affected by the resultant...
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HVS to develop world-first self-driving hydrogen HGV with share of £6.6m funding
...the UK market. Accelerating towards the next generation of transportation and logistics, the Hub2Hub consortium will create a self-driving heavy goods tractor unit, which will begin vehicles trials in 2024,...
Interview
Kevin McPartlan of Fuels for Ireland
...“It is important to recognise that the future fuels may not even be the fuels that we have or know right now but may be a zero-carbon fuel that may...
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Distributor diaries November 2023:updates from our distributor community
...and to see the support from the local community.” Good luck to Warrington Town FC for the upcoming season! New Era Fuels runs fleet exclusively on HVO New Era Fuels,...
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Will the government give logistics the attention it deserves?
...logistics. In its Logistics Manifesto 2015, FTA said that the freight industry requires better support from government, and set out key issues which need addressing– including a cut in fuel...
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XPO Logistics holds 4th annual UK Female Drivers Forum
Earlier this week XPO Logistics held its fourth annual Female Drivers Forum at the company’s national distribution centre in Crick, Northamptonshire. As in previous years, all XPO Logistics female drivers...
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Airport Energy – making every single litre count
...the industry and in limited supply.” The company now provides 95% of Heathrow’s airside fuel. Additionally, it manages fuel supply and fuel facilities at Stansted and Edinburgh with fuel also...
Case Study
QMRE: Transforming plastic waste into sustainable solutions
...oil could soon become a mainstream component of transport fuels, aviation fuels, and even marine fuels. Additionally, QMRE is exploring solutions for specific plastic waste streams such as carpets and...
Analysis
Cyber Love: Innovation & advances in fuel distribution technology
...including its flagship mobile application, Fuelstar. “Often companies will have developed paper-based systems for this, but over many years, we’re finding that the majority of fuel distributors are using some...