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Ian Jones, who recently retired as managing director of Mercedes Benz Commercial Vehicles, has become a non-executive director of Howard Tenens

United Parcel Service now expects its 5.16bn euro takeover of TNT Express to be completed in early 2013

Susanna May of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is to be keynote speaker at the FSDF conference which takes place in Nottingham at the end of September

Justine Greening has been replaced as secretary of state for transport in a move widely seen as punishment for opposing further expansion at Heathrow

The British International Freight Association has urged members to ensure that their procedures, when accepting consignments for shipment, are as tight as possible in the face of a growing trade in fake products

UPS has extended the offer period for its TNT Express bid until 9th November

TNT Express has reported a 67.4 per cent rise in operating profit to 77m euros in the second quarter of 2012, on sales up 1.7 per cent to 1.8bn euros

The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation under the EU Merger Regulation into the proposed acquisition of TNT Express by UPS.

UPS is planning to extend the offer period for its proposal to buy TNT Express beyond 31 August 2012, in accordance with its commitment as set out in the Offer Memorandum

The UK’s rail freight network is to receive millions of pounds of funding from the European Commission’s trans European transport network executive agency