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The Northern Irish logistics sector needs to address a critical skills shortage to remain competitive, says Skills for Logistics, the Sector Skills Council for the UK logistics industry.

Kuehne & Nagel has become a major player in the contract logistics market with the acquisition of ACR. Now North West Europe chief Peter Ulber wants to create end-to-end supply chains.

Target Express the UK partner and founding member of NetExpress Europe, has expanded its Eastern European connections.

It’s a tough job but someone has to do it – deliver goods in our major cities with the traffic jams and waiting restriction at the delivery point. Malory Davies looks at the measures that can be taken to make life a bit easier in the urban jungle.

Automotive manufacturers are turning to the web to create new business models capable of delivering improved customer service and increased productivity. However, electronic data interchange formats continue to cast a long shadow across the sector. By Jo

Kwik Save has awarded the UK warehouse and distribution contract for its ambient and frozen goods to TDG in a deal worth more than £9 million a year.

Official statistics for Irish air exports for the first quarter of 2006 show IAM, Ireland’s largest GSSA, performing ahead of the market with eight per cent growth, against an overall market increase of seven per cent. IAM says it now controls 20 per cent