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Approximately 500 staff at Woolworths distribution centres across the UK will lose their jobs at the end of December as stores will be ceasing to trade at the beginning of January.

TNT has staked its claim to a partnership with Royal Mail following a statement by business secretary Lord Mandelson, that the government plans to bring in a minority partner to help revitalise the business

Transport secretary Geoff Hoon has said freight is key to the competitiveness of the UK economy in a new Department for Transport policy document published today (16th December 2008).

European Conveyor Systems has fitted a new automated conveyor system, capable of handling up to 30 cartons a minute, for wine and spirits wholesaler Waverley TBS after the one it installed in 2000 was damaged by an explosion.

Lothar Alexander Harings is set to become a member of the management board of Kuehne + Nagel International AG, responsible for global human resources, effective 1st April 2009.

Greggs the baker has signed a five-year contract with Norbert Dentressangle to provide bespoke rigid and drawbar combination trunking between its Nation Savouries Centre in Newcastle Upon Tyne to its southern distribution centres.