Xergi has signed contracts to supply UK-based Tamar Energy with two Anaerobic Digestion plants, as part of Tamar’s plans to build a network of more than 40 new bio-gas plants by 2018

Schoeller Allibert has launched Eureka double-base, a new lightweight stacking container, which aims to offer threefold benefits for automated handling applications

Pall-Ex has launched an operation in France – its fourth network on the continent – with a hub in the Bourges region and 40 member hauliers. During the first full night of operation, a total of 474 pallets passed through the hub

The Royal Mail has secured a 111,000 sq ft warehouse in Beckton, East London, which it will use as a distribution and sorting centre

The UK’s retail supply chains face major upheavals over the next five years with more than 60,000 shops closing down in the face of continuing austerity and the rise of internet shopping

Retailers in the non-food sector, are set to invest some £5 billion in making the transition to omni-channel over the next five years

Optrak has become a founding member of the recently launched Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF), which means the SRF will now use its vehicle routeing software as part of the research into improving management of road freight transport

Dutch brewer Bavaria has signed a shared transport agreement with Heinz and Mars, to move their products across Europe by inland waterways

The UK arm of DB Schenker Logistics, Schenker Limited, has expanded its fleet by adding 43 additional trucks to two of its main hubs at Nuneaton and Basildon, as part of its new investment programme

Rigid Containers has taken a ten-year lease of The Co-operative Group’s former regional distribution centre at Chelston Business Park in Wellington, Somerset