Companies that currently use the railways to move goods say they will switch to the roads if rail cannot compete on price.
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French group Geodis has bought TNT’s freight forwarding business in a deal that values the business at £310 million.
UPS predicts that the number of goods it handles will surge from some 15 million packages a day to more than 21 million on Wednesday 20 December, its busiest day of the year.
WFS (Spa), a division of Worldwide Flight Services, has won a contract with Nippon Cargo Airlines to receive and handle goods at Heathrow, bound for Japan via Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
The PWC Logistics group, which includes; GeoLogistics, TransOceanic, and Trans-Link, is rebranding as Agility.
CitySprint has won a two-year contract with the National Laboratory Service, which carries out environmental testing for The Environment Agency.
Bibby Distribution has won a three-year contract with Suzuki to distribute motorcycles around the UK, along with all terrain vehicles and marine finished goods such as outboard motors.
Target Express has added a new agent to its European delivery network.
Courtenham Logistic Solutions has opened a new £1m distribution facility at Courtenham, Essex, with upgraded product fulfilment capabilities.
Commercial vehicle fleet services provider Fraikin has ordered over £12.5 million worth of new rental vehicles for the first half of 2007.
