Up to 3,000 jobs could be created through the proposal of six new distribution centres at Teesport by PD Ports.
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Paul Carvell has left Business Post and Guy Buswell has taken over as chief executive.
Up to 100 new jobs are to be created by Ocado the online delivery arm of supermarket chain Waitrose,
Eurotunnel has appointed Francois Coart as director for rail freight development.
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.
Some 135 jobs have been saved at a haulage business after the firm was bought by its management. Administrators confirmed the milk haulage business and more than 1,500 cattle at DW Weaver in Endon, had been bought and will now trade under the name of Weav
Quinn Glass, the container glass manufacturer, has started using EWS between Widnes and Mossend.
Kuehne & Nagel has completed the acquisition of ACR Logistics for Euro 440m. With more than 40,000 employees in more than 100 countries, it now ranks among the top five global service providers in contract logistics.
Danish group DSV, which trades at DFDS Transport, is launching a take-over bid for Frans Maas, the Dutch logistics provider. It has aqreed with Koninklijke Frans Maas to make a cash offer of 38 euros a share and a majority of KFM shareholders have agreed
Wincanton has generated £150m cash by re-structuring some of its debt. The company says the funds raised are being used to “refinance existing bank facilities and to position the company to take advantage of the opportunities for continued future growth.”
