Chilled solution cuts costs for Londis


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Norbert Dentressangle has won a €20 million four-year contract from ADM Londis to provide centralised chilled distribution of products to the grocery chain’s network of 250 stores throughout Ireland The company will deliver more


than 15 million cases of products per year using a fleet of 50 trucks from two warehouse locations - the existing ambient Londis facility at Johnstown in Co Kildare and a new centralised chill facility at Swords, north of Dublin, opened by Dentressangle as part of the new agreement. Thanks to the new partnership,


Londis retailers will, for the first time, be able to place their chilled orders direct with the ADM Londis Group Support office and receive the products rapidly in a single delivery. Claude Tonna Barthet, group


operations director at ADM Londis, says: “The group’s centralised chill


facility incorporates over 780 product SKUs, removing on average 40 individual supplier deliveries per week from the shop floor. “The entire operation is reliant on


a very fluid process from placement of orders by retailers, to suppliers delivering into our chilled warehouse


Left to right: Claude Tonna Barthet and Stephen O’Riordan from ADM Londis with Mark Boulton, business development director for Norbert Dentressangle Logistics Ireland


in Swords, concluding with products being picked, dispatched and delivered by Norbert Dentressangle to our retailers, all within a three-day timeframe. Despite the complexity of the solution, we have experienced a very smooth launch with excellent feedback from our retailers.”


During the existing five-year


logistics partnership between the two companies, a €2 million warehouse investment in Johnstown has already increased warehouse efficiency, enabling a 30% cost reduction that Londis passed on to retailers in the form of lower prices. ADM Londis


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O’Riordan said the new deal would generate higher sales and improved margin for franchisees at a “challenging time in the retail market”.


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DB Schenker’s new 8,000 sq metre logistics centre in Santry, north Dublin, was reported to be Ireland’s largest commercial property letting in the first quarter of 2012. The facility is certified by the Irish Medicines Board and holds the Technology Asset Protection Association’s ‘A’ security standard. Large multinationals in the life sciences, high-tech and consumer export markets are DB Schenker’s main target in Ireland. The company also opened a new facility in Cork earlier this year.


BG Freight Line has introduced a weekly Rotterdam-Liverpool-Belfast service, calling at Belfast’s VT 3 terminal every Thursday. The route supplements existing weekly Rotterdam-Belfast-Felixstowe and Antwerp-Dublin-Belfast services. BG also operates a series of services from once to three times weekly connecting Rotterdam and Antwerp with Cork and Dublin.


The Logistics Institute at Hull University Business School is hosting a conference on 12-13 September to encourage European business to take advantage of the estimated £120 billion market along the E20 transport corridor from Limerick to St Petersburg, which it claims is under-utilised. For further information, visit www.hull.ac.uk/hubs.


Seatruck Ferries launched a Heysham-Belfast service in May,


redeploying two vessels, Arrow and Ranger, that previously operated to Larne. Seatruck uses Belfast’s Albert Quay terminal. Alistair Eagles, Seatruck MD Irish Sea, says the decision to move from Larne was “in line with customer demand”. The operator now holds 20% of the Irish Sea market and claims the freight-only unaccompanied trailer model will continue to gain ground.


Dundalk-based McArdle Transport has rebranded as McArdle Skeath aſter acquiring Skeath Refrigerated Transport. Micheal McArdle, MD of the family-owned company, said the deal was “significant for us and our clients at a time when the industry faces many challenges from fuel costs to ever changing regulations”. McArdle Skeath has also built a new warehouse at its five-hectare headquarters, bringing its storage capacity to 20,000 pallet spaces.


Minister praises DPD technology


Richard Bruton, Ireland’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, credited DPD’s innovation and use of technology as he opened the company’s expanded parcel hub at Athlone in April. “Our business is a bellwether of


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Jobs Minister Richard Bruton (left) with Brendan O’Neill, CEO of DPD Ireland, at the company’s Athlone expansion


DPD now claims to be Ireland’s leading express parcels provider with a network of 38 depots handling more than eight million parcels a year. The company has capitalised on the emergence of e-commerce and internet shopping. O’Neill said DPD was “fast


becoming the preferred carrier of the business to private consumer market. We routinely deliver to over 1.75 million Irish households and 85% of businesses.”


The Internet has an equally


important role in providing options on delivery points and offering the receiver interactive delivery scheduling, so consignments reach the customer when expected. Following customer


feedback


that indicated they wanted more delivery options, DPD introduced the Predict service, giving the receiver a three-hour time window in which to expect delivery of their parcel.


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