Crossrail Ltd (CRL) today appointed Martin Rowark as Head of Procurement. Reporting directly to Commercial Director Martin Buck, he will lead the CRL Procurement Division to achieve best value in the delivery of the procurement requirements of the Crossrail project to programme and budget. Mr Rowark will join Crossrail on 21 December 2009.
Vélizy, 3rd December 2009 – Thales has been awarded the bid to upgrade and improve signalling systems and rail traffic control for the Ronda-Gaucín stretch of the Bobadilla-Algeciras railway, which covers 50km in Eastern Spain. ADIF, the rail infrastructure organisation, has placed a contract, worth 19.7 million Euro, to the consortium headed by Thales.
Birmingham 3rd November 2009 - In today’s economy logistics organisations are challenged by many factors: Increased security measures; growing costs and competition; and environmental concerns. As a result many operators are looking at ways to simplify their business and streamline costs by whatever means possible. Crucially companies depend on real time and accurate exchange of information between their partners to enforce operational strategies and achieve efficiencies.
A mismanaged supply chain can have any number of hidden costs and consequences that all generally result in a company wasting money or going over budget...
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has criticised proposals by the Liberal Democrats to introduce a ‘per flight’ aviation tax. FTA believes such a levy misunderstands the important role that air freight plays in the movement of goods in and out the UK, and would unfairly penalise the aviation industry and the consumers, businesses and producers that rely on it.