A more intelligent approach to freight movements could help ease driver shortage

Ocado Group has invested £10m in a collaboration with autonomous mobility company Wayve to develop autonomous urban grocery deliveries.

Crouch Logistics was hampered by a tiered charging structure which led to it losing money on each of its drivers, every day, before it eventually collapsed into administration and was sold back to its management for £150,000, documents revealed.

The UK saw steep declines in imports and exports to the European Union (EU) as well as a slight decline in trade with non-EU nations, in the first quarter of 2021, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).