Vancouver-based Waterfront Shipping has awarded a contract to MAN Diesel & Turbo to provide four of the company’s ships with its new ME-LGI dual fuel engines, which run on a mix of 95 per cent methanol and five per cent diesel fuel

Michelin Solutions has launched the Effifuel solution which it claims is unlike any other in the market today

Bob Common MILT has joined Bisham Consulting’s international management team, hoping to provide the company with additional specialist expertise in oil and gas and chemicals and materials

Toyota Material Handling UK’s managing director, Mike Mathias, has joined the Consolidated Fork Truck Services board

Russian container transport operator Ruscon has launched a new train service to supply the Volkswagen assembly plant in Nizhniy Novogorod

JCB has signed with Gazeley for a long term lease on a 383,000 sq ft warehouse development at Blue Planet, Chatterley Valley, with a conditional £2.9 million of government funding

Home furnishings retailer Crate and Barrel has implemented Kewill’s Flagship parcel shipping and Netship expense management software, to efficiently handle the several million parcels it despatches each year

DB Schenker has opened a new healthcare and pharmaceutical logistics centre in South Korea, as part of its plan to increase global supply chain competence in the healthcare market

B&Q, Travis Perkins and Dixons have signed up as sponsors of a new Novus Logistics and Supply Chain BSc degree, joining companies such as Sainsbury’s and DHL

Power Automation Systems has hired Bob Thompson as director, customer consulting services in the US