Archive for the ‘UK News’ Category

  • Geotab and VisionTrack offer DVS-compliant solution

    on Mar 9, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on Geotab and VisionTrack offer DVS-compliant solution

     Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation, and VisionTrack, the leading supplier of video telematics technology, today announced the launch of VisionTrack’s government compliant DVS solution on the Geotab Marketplace, a growing portfolio of mobile apps, software Add-Ins and hardware Add-Ons. This solution will help fleets with heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the Greater London area meet the compliance standard that is designed to reduce potential risk to pedestrians and cyclists

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  • Logistics UK welcomes NI grace periods extension

    on Mar 4, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on Logistics UK welcomes NI grace periods extension

    Logistics UK has welcomed news that the UK government will extend the grace periods relating to border checks on some agri-food goods – also known as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) goods – which were set to expire after 31 March

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  • Additional COVID-19 services for EU-bound hauliers

    on Feb 24, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on Additional COVID-19 services for EU-bound hauliers

    The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed that more than 200,000 HGV drivers and crew have been tested en route to France, since new COVID 19 testing requirements came into place

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  • Personal Freight Services chooses Descartes’ e-Customs solution

    on Feb 23, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on Personal Freight Services chooses Descartes’ e-Customs solution

    Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, has helped Personal Freight Services Ltd, an Irish-owned freight forwarding, warehousing, and customs brokerage service provider, to grow its business post-Brexit following deployment of the Descartes e-Customs solution

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  • Northern Ireland Protocol needs work says Logistics UK

    on Feb 23, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on Northern Ireland Protocol needs work says Logistics UK

    After issues have occurred moving goods between GB and Northern Ireland since the start of the year, business group Logistics UK has raised the concerns of the sector concerning the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol with representatives of both the EU and UK governments

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  • Advice on short-term ECMT permits

    on Feb 16, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on Advice on short-term ECMT permits

    The Department for Transport is advising that the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the UK and EU allows for a UK haulier to undertake unlimited bilateral (point-to-point) journeys to and from the EU, and unlimited transit journeys through the EU to a non-EU country (though a permit may be required for your final destination)

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  • Dungarvan Transport boosts fleet with new Actros arrivals

    on Feb 11, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on Dungarvan Transport boosts fleet with new Actros arrivals

    Leading Waterford haulage firm, Dungarvan Transport, has hit the ground running in 2021 by taking delivery of the first of a number of new Mercedes-Benz heavy-duty Actros trucks, with further units due to arrive over the coming months

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  • COVID 19 and Brexit take their toll

    on Feb 8, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on COVID 19 and Brexit take their toll

    COVID 19 and Brexit are taking their toll on the movement of goods between Ireland and the UK, according to FTA Ireland

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  • Truck makers gear up to go fossil-free by 2040

    on Feb 3, 21 • in UK, UK News • with Comments Off on Truck makers gear up to go fossil-free by 2040

    Europe’s truck manufacturers have made history by agreeing that all new trucks sold by 2040 have to be fossil-free in order to reach carbon neutrality by

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  • Logistics UK urges government to support supply chain

    on Feb 3, 21 • in UK News, Ultra-Seal • with Comments Off on Logistics UK urges government to support supply chain

     The logistics industry needs government support in the 2021 Budget to ensure the continued health of the UK’s supply chain, according to business group Logistics UK. 

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