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The Department for Transport’s Online Benchmarking pilot which went live in August, has been expanded to include six additional KPIs to the two that currently exist.

DHL has launched DHL Tyrebox for Europe, a patented solution for transporting tyres to the market. The system enables tyres to be stacked together and delivered flat-packed.

Synthomer, the synthetic polymers business, has chosen DHL Exel Supply Chain to handle its bulk transport operations in the UK from January.

Norbert Dentressangle says it expects that full-year performance will be hampered by the deterioration in the business environment in the final quarter of 2008.

Marks & Spencer is responding to the downturn in the retail market with plans to manage its supply chain more tightly.

The pressure to make business activity more environmentally friendly is intruding into more and more areas of logistics operations. So it is hardly a surprise that the latest government move is on air conditioning.

The Co-op, advised by Strutt & Parker and DE & J Levy, has sublet Unit 8, Prince’s Court, Wapping Lane, London, E1 to DHL.

Finding the right people in time to help deal with Christmas peak volumes is crucial for distribution companies to maintain good service levels. JESSICA DAVIES reports.

It has been said that logistics is a man’s industry, but one woman who is rapidly dispelling that myth is Pall-Ex founder and CEO Hilary Devey. “It can be very hard for women, particularly in such a male dominated environment,” she says. “But it can be do