NewCold Advanced Logistics has awarded contracts to Dematic to build two high-bay warehouses at new sites in Truganina, Melbourne. The automated cold storage facilities, which when built will be the largest of their kind in the Southern ...
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Safer Storage Systems recently launched SSS Racking onto the Australian market. This new range of pallet racking materials is said to be a premium grade that offers a number of key advantages. The industrial storage system was developed ...
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DP World Australia has agreed to plans with Austrak to further develop Austrak’s intermodal freight hub at Somerton. DP World Australia will operate the new inland freight hub known as Somerton Rail Port, 23 km north of the Port of ...
Global supply chain risk Q2 2016. Global supply chain risk climbed in the second quarter of 2016, reaching the highest levels since records began in 1995, according to the CIPS Risk Index, powered by Dun & Bradstreet. The Index, ...
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New research from Worldpay reveals that high-spending super-shoppers in Australia see online shopping as a daily task, not just an occasional treat A small group of highly active Australian shoppers account for 92% of all spending on ...
Aerial view of the Enfield container terminal. Aurizon has commenced its rail port shuttle from Port Botany to the Enfield intermodal facility in Sydney. The Enfield to Port Botany rail service is part of Aurizon’s investment at ...
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Sydney Airport has unveiled Australia’s first electric airport bus, as part of a $5 million investment in environmentally friendly ground transport technology. The Electric Blu bus is the first of a fleet of six electric buses to be ...
The most efficient heavy-duty counterbalance forklift for warehouse and manufacturing applications to come from Crown Equipment has been launched in the Australian market. Helping the company deliver a more extensive counterbalance ...
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On 1 July 2016, the Australian Border Force (ABF) voluntary trade facilitation initiative, Australian Trusted Trader (ATT), opened to all Australian businesses active in the international supply chain. In the first six weeks of full ...
The Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia, Queensland Division, in conjunction with ABB Enterprise Software, All Purpose Transport and Leadership Management Australia (LMA), is pleased to announce the finalists for the ninth ...
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America’s back, free trade agreements are helping (particularly with China), and Europe remains on Australian business horizons despite Brexit. This is according to the 2016 DHL Export Barometer. However, exporters are muddling ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose two separate proposals by consortia to acquire the 50-year lease of the Port of Melbourne, following careful consideration of potential cross-ownership interests and ...
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GS1 Australia officially launched the new Apparel RFID Implementation Guidelines to provide retailers and suppliers in the Australian apparel, fashion and footwear industry with best practice guidance on RFID implementation based on global ...
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Business expectations for sales, profits and employment have bounced back for the three-month period to 31 December 2016, according to Dun & Bradstreet’s July Australian Business Expectations Survey. The surprising turn of events ...
Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) has broadened its material handling product range by introducing a new range of versatile elevated work platforms. The elevated work platforms (EWP) are currently part of the demonstration fleet ...
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