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Leyland Trucks has celebrated production of the 100,000th DAF LF truck. Graham Bellman, group head of transport for Travis Perkins, was presented the keys to the truck by new DAF LF by Andrea Thompson, managing director of Leyland Trucks

Parcel delivery and collection firm Collect+ has appointed Catherine Woolfe, former head of marketing communications at E.ON, as its marketing director

UPS has set out plans to expand its operations at Cologne/Bonn airport in Germany increasing the hub’s sorting capacity from 110,000 to 190,000 packages per hour

The road transport industry now has the UK’s worst fork lift truck safety record, accounting for around a quarter of the overall UK injury toll, according to figures collated by the Fork Lift Truck Association for National Fork Lift Safety Week

Effective management of logistics can increase a company’s economic value with a strong impact on revenues and costs, according to a study conducted by SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy on behalf of Ceva Logistics

Spanish fashion group Inditex has set out a improvements to its procedures for controlling its supply chain in Brazil following press allegations last month that one of its contractors was employing sweatshop labour

Deutsche Post DHL has set out plans to invest 750 million euros in modernising its German parcel network with the aim that parcels will be sent as fast as letters in the future

The Freight Transport Association has backed recommendations by the House of Commons transport committee on sharing data to cut traffic jams