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When Swiss-based transport company Kuehne & Nagel acquired ACR Logistics, its obvious aim was to expand its global network further into the logistically fashionable Eastern Europe and Asia.

With a ridge height of 140 ft (42.5m) – as high as eight HGVs – Kimberly-Clark’s new 160,000 sq ft 34m (112ft) high distribution centre in Northfleet, Kent, is set to be one of the tallest warehouse structures in the United Kingdom.

Recent reports in the newspapers focusing on the Campaign to Protect Rural England’s latest crusade regarding distribution warehouses – March of the mega depots – should not be dismissed out of hand, warns Lisa Fitch of NAI Fuller Peiser.

British Airways has extended its relationship with the leading logistics specialist Gist, to manage the receipt, handling and despatch of all of its in-flight retail (IFR) products.

Kent-based transport company UK Freight Masters has switched its palletised distribution network from UK Pallets to Palletforce, one of the fastest-growing networks in the UK.

UPS has today announced the launch of ‘UPS Mail LogicSM’, a new international mail service that allows customers to streamline their mail operations.

Geoff Newton, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) has left the institute after little more than a year in the job.