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Decisions about the location and design of warehouses are critical to shaping modern supply chains, but without effective warehouse management systems to run them they cannot possibly operate efficiently

Zoom Airlines has appointed British Airways World Cargo to provide full cargo ground handling services for its 42 Gatwick flights a week, in a three-year contract.

Total freight traffic through UK ports was 581.1 million tonnes last year, according to figures from the Department for Transport – little changed from 2006.

Linde Material Handling has set out plans to boost its environmental credentials by continuing to carry out research to help develop hybrid vehicles and trucks with hydrogen engines and fuel-cells.

Wincanton is buying Product Support Holdings Ltd (PSHL), which offers logistics services to defence and aerospace markets, in a deal worth up to £30m.

UPS is set to move its intra-Asia air hub from the Philippines to Shenzhen Airport in southern China, in a bid to improve customer service by reducing transit times across the region.