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Professor Alan McKinnon, director of Logistics Research at Heriot –Watt University, said that at any given time, there is £460m worth of freight in transit on UK roads.

Argos Direct, the home shopping arm of the high street retailer, has selected Paragon’s Multi Depot routeing and scheduling software as part of a drive to improve its transport planning capability.

Iveco has launched a new version of its Daily van. The Daily is aimed at transport professionals and, like a truck, is built on a steel chassis enabling it to come in some 3,000 different configurations from vans to chassis-cabs and mini-buses.

Hutchison Ports (HPUK) has signed a new contract with LDH (La Doria), extending the current contract until at least the end of February 2009.

Thinking on a global scale is becoming more and more important for companies, with an increasing amount of manufacturing coming out of China. But the challenge is for companies to retain a high level of visibility over extended supply chains.

Symbol Technologies and Peak Technologies, have both been chosen by Virgin Atlantic Airways, to supply RFID technology to track critical aeroplane components, moving through its supply chain from its Heathrow base.