The threat of a Christmas postal strike has been dropped after negotiators from Royal Mail and the Communications Workers Union reached a deal in principle on pay, legal protections, industrial stability and pensions

Wholesale supplier QTram has taken a 35,339 sq ft warehouse at Trafford Park in Manchester.

Materials handling group Cooper is restructuring its business to create three distinct business units

UK property regeneration company Harworth Estates has secured approval for a massive logistics hub near Bolton in the North West

Supermarket chain Aldi said it is to create around 400 jobs at its new 856,000 sq ft regional base in Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire which is expected to open in 2015

Castledene Transport, which is based at Aylesford in Kent, has joined the Palletline network

Arla Foods has chosen Transdek to install six loading and lifting systems at sites across the UK, including two tailor-made 6.5-tonne double deck lifts at its fresh milk dairy at Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire

Gazeley has acquired a strategic 18.5 acre logistics site in Daventry between Northampton and Rugby

Kuehne + Nagel’s merger with European wagon hire and rail logistics firm VTG, has been granted approval from the German and Austrian antitrust authorities

The National Skills Academy Logistics has been put into liquidation by its National Employer Board, following what it describes as protracted negotiations with the Skills Funding Agency