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Paper exporter Mark Lyndon UK expects to cut costs and reduce lorry miles by 380,000 by routeing containers through London Gateway, the new port at the mouth of the Thames, when it opens in the fourth quarter of next year

A change in attitudes to parcel deliveries is set to double the volume of items which UK consumers have shipped to alternative collection points rather than their homes over the next five years, according to Global Freight Solutions’ analysis of the pre-C

Operating profit rose 50 per cent at Boughey Distribution to £3m last year, parent NWF Group revealed in its annual results

Manufacturers are taking production back in house and looking for local supply capability in response to increased supply chain disruption cause by recession and natural disasters

Menzies Distribution, which distributes newspapers and magazines produced an operating profit of £14m in the first half of 2012, up from £13.7m last year, despite a 3.7 per cent fall in sales to £648.2m