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Classic Drinks, the drinks wholesaler and distribution company, has replaced its fleet with 16 new MAN TGL 7.180 4×2 BB 7.5 tonners. The replacements have been supplied with two-year warranty packages by MAN ERF Manchester.

Wallpaper supplier CWV has extended its contract with DHL Exel to handle its warehouse operations from a DHL shared user site in Middleton, Manchester for the next two years.

The FTA and RHA are calling on the government to introduce a system of collecting information from visiting lorry operators and drivers which, in future, could be subsumed “into a formal European database exchange”.

Stewart Oades can take credit for pushing up operating profit at Christian Salvesen by 15.5 per cent after just a year in the hot seat. Operating profit for the full year rose to £20.9m on sales up just 1.9 per cent at £820.7m.

Laurent Farman is to take over as managing director of Renault Trucks from Thierry Lepercq who is stepping down with effect from 14 July. Farman is currently in charge of the Romanian market.

NYK Logistics has won a further contract with Land Rover, to manage the supply of components to point of fit, on the Defender and Range Rover production lines at Solihull.

The International Container Security Organisation, a new not-for-profit organisation has been set up in Brussels to help combat terrorism and organised crime, in the international container freight industry.