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New Digital Transport Platform is the icing on the cake for leading Bakery Ingredients company British Bakels

Leave a Comment / 3T News / By Damon Ankers

3T Logistics and Technology Group has recently been selected by leading Bakery Ingredients company British Bakels to digitise their transport operations and drive down transport costs. Commercial ingredient manufacturer and distributor British Bakels has invested in 3T’s Digital Transport Platform, EVENT to help streamline their transport processes and drive down costs by using a collaborative …

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3T becomes ‘Made in Britain’ member

Leave a Comment / 3T News / By Damon Ankers

Privately owned UK-based 3T Logistics & Technology Group, A five-time Gartner Magic Quadrant recognised company, is proud to announce that it has joined Made in Britain’s manufacturing community. Members of the non-profit association are united by the use of its iconic collective mark, which symbolizes well-made British products, showcasing the highest standards in safety, design …

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4PLs ideally placed to deliver crowd logistics services

3T News / By Reagan Nyandoro

4PL providers “by definition” have the skills needed to deliver successful crowd logistics services, according to a researcher in an interview with Supply Chain Quarterly. Aurelien Rouquet is one of the authors on a recent academic paper published in the December 2017 issue of the Journal of Business Logistics. In the paper, the authors look …

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'Operation Stack' HGVs waiting at Dover, by Barry Davis

How 4PLs can help deliver Clusters 2.0

3T News / By Reagan Nyandoro

An EU-backed project to optimise freight clusters in European transport systems could ultimately benefit from the complex coordination capabilities of fourth-party logistics providers (4PLs). The scheme, dubbed Clusters 2.0, launched last year and is due to run until 2020 – part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme of environmentally driven research – with nearly €6 …

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Companies to need more 4PL after Brexit

Industry News / By Reagan Nyandoro

A report from Deloitte has outlined the potential impact of Brexit on consumer goods suppliers, including why the UK’s exit from the European Union is likely to increase companies’ reliance on 3PL and 4PL. The analyst’s January 2018 Consumer Review reveals that a third of consumers believe goods and services in general will cost more …

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2017 was a year of growth for 3T Logistics

3T Logistics announce 50% increase in turnover since 2014

3T News / By Reagan Nyandoro

2017 was a busy and successful year for 3T Logistics. The company’s investment in personnel, technology and premises yielded great results with the announcement of an increase in statutory turnover of around 50% over the last four years. As Europe’s largest independent 4PL, 3T manage over £200 million in transport spend across Europe and the …

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3T nominated for logistics partnership award for work with JCB

3T News / By Reagan Nyandoro

3T Logistics has been nominated for a prestigious industry award in recognition of the company’s work with JCB improving their transport management operations over the past decade. 3T are on the shortlist for the Logistics Partnership of the Year award organised by the Logistics Leaders Network. To reach the final, 3T had to demonstrate supply …

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4PLs are ‘in ideal position’ to promote collaboration

3T News / By Reagan Nyandoro

4PLs have been singled out by researchers as being in the “ideal position” to promote collaboration across massive logistics networks in ways that would not be possible for individual companies within those networks. The study in Transportation Research Procedia looks at how just one 4PL can manage multiple networks – in this example, four European …

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The Rise of the Machines – Introducing DOCK

3T News / By Reagan Nyandoro

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into …

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Modern 3PL ‘is not your grandfather’s 3PL

3T News / By Reagan Nyandoro

Modern day third party logistics A white paper from the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business describes modern-day third party logistics as “not your grandfather’s 3PL”

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