This will be the third year of the programme, which also received industry recognition in January when DB Schenker won the BIFA freight service award for Staff Development.

The new group of eight will be based in a variety of locations up and down the UK and will undertake a 30 month long apprenticeship. They are required to complete two frameworks as part of the programme and when successfully passed, they will receive an NVQ Level 2 in Business administration and an NVQ Level 3 in Customer Service.

Managing Director, Helgi Ingolfsson, said: “Getting young people into logistics is vital, they are the future of the company and that is why I wholeheartedly support our apprentice programme.”

Find out more on the DB Schenker website

The dinosaur, named ‘Tricky’ the triceratops is a long term resident of the Dinosaur Museum in Icen Way, Dorchester.  Owners Mike and Jackie Ridley decided that Tricky was showing signs of age and needed a makeover.   The work could not be carried out on site, so Tricky had to be moved to a workshop where the model could be cleaned and repainted.

Pickfords, the UK’s largest removal and storage company, was called in to move Tricky from the museum, via crane onto a flat bed vehicle, ready to be driven to the workshop.   It took four men to move the model and one to watch the fragile tail as the life-sized dinosaur inched past telephone wires and metal railings.

The whole removal was filmed as part of Channel 5’s new series of ‘The Removal Men’, a fly on the wall documentary about Pickfords and its customers.

• Read about Pickfords in our company profiles
• Read more on Pickfords’ blog

First time in the UK for over 17 years

The pandas – Tian Tian (aka Sweetie), an eight year-old female panda, and Yang Guang (aka Sunshine), an eight year-old male - were flown non-stop from Chengdu Airport in China to Edinburgh Airport in Scotland on a specially-chartered Boeing777F flight known as the “FedEx Panda Express”. On board the Boeing 777F aircraft—which was solely dedicated to the pandas’ journey—Tian Tian and Yang Guang travelled in two custom-built transport containers.

Image courtesy of Thadz on Stock.xchng.

Paul Brooks, Chairman of Skills for Logistics, and Sales Director of Unipart Logistics, said “The £4 million … investment announced today … is a clear indication of the recognition by governments across the UK of the importance of logistics and wholesaling to the economy and its recovery.”

• You can find out more about the funding on the Skills for Logistics website
• Have you thought about how important logistics is to UK retail, for example? Browse our Logistics in life section.

Information on careers in logistics for young people

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