Floor space at Multimodal 2012, aimed at all sectors of the UK and Irish logistics industry and its customers, is selling out.

The event, now in its fifth consecutive year is to be held at Birmingham’s NEC from May 1-3.

The show will host a wide spectrum of companies, including third party logistics providers (3PLs), ports, deep-sea and short-sea shipping lines, freight forwarders, international hauliers, rail service providers, terminal operators and equipment and  technology suppliers. A host of industry leading companies have confirmed their, while there are also a host of first-time exhibitors.

Multimodal is the venue at which buyers review innovative logistics solutions. A raft of forwarding and freight and logistics management companies are also joining the line-up.

“Today’s astute logistics operators are aware that in the current tough business climate they need to maximise their market profile, and Multimodal 2012 is the ideal forum in which to achieve that,” said event director Robert Jervis.

One of the companies in the Multimodal line up is articulated forklift truck technology company Flexi Narrow Aisle which will be demonstrating how the Flexi articulated forklift truck range (pictured above) has been developed to improve storage, handling and customer order assembly efficiency in manufacturing and logistics.

www.multimodal.org.uk

www.flexi.co.uk