UK's freight providers look to booming e-commerce for growth

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Despite a decidedly grim outlook for the UK’s high street retailers, exponential growth in the country’s e-commerce sector is expected to provide significant amounts of business to supply chain operators and freight service providers.

Steve Agg, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) told delegates at this week’s Multimodal show in Birmingham that current research indicates that there will be 30% fewer chain stores on the UK high street by 2020 compared to today – but the ...