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Britain’s largest kitchen supplier has started importing goods from China by train because of the rising cost of using maritime shipping containers.Howden Joinery, the FTSE 250 group which supplies
Staff Shortage and Increased Costs Placing Business Recovery At Risk
Logistics UK Report Finding a Resilient Industry But Age Old Issues Still at Play
UK – Logistics businesses have shown impressive resilience throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, adapting their operations swiftly and efficiently in the face of extreme pressures to keep the nation stocked with the goods and services it needs.
According to a report, by Logistics UK as the country now tries to move further to recovery the age-old problem of HGV driver shortage places any possibility of recovery at risk with almost one in ten logistics businesses (9.8%) saying the recruitment of drivers is an ‘extreme barrier’ to the recovery of their business.
Astronaut to headline Logistics UK conference
To help identify where space-age inspiration could provide solutions for 21st century challenges, Major Tim Peake CMG will be the keynote speaker at Logistics UK’s Future Logistics Conference at the Innovation & Technology in Transport Hub (ITT Hub).
The event is to be held at the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre on 30 June and 1 July 2021, and Peake – the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) – will be kicking off the free, two-day conference with a session challenging the way that logistics, public transport and technology operates, both now and in the future.