DHL Express had introduced a daily flight between Japan and DHL’s American hub in Cincinnati, which will enable a next-day delivery service to the US and a two-day delivery service to the Japanese capital, Tokyo

Kuehne + Nagel has taken over 70 per cent of the shares of Universal Freight Services from the Khimji Ramdas Group in the Sultanate of Oman

Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management has been chosen by Italian retailer Unicoop Firenze to streamline its store and inventory operations

DHL is investing $50 million (£32.7 m) in a new 44,000 sq m logistics centre in Sagamihara, Japan, as part of its plan to invest around $385 million (£252 m) into North Asia by 2015

DAF Trucks has launched new LF and CF models which use the Euro 6 Paccar MX-11engine

The fall-out from the horsemeat scandal is continuing with research showing a slowdown in the growth of the £2bn ready meals market

Home deliveries for online shopping have driven growth in UK Mail’s parcels business – with a 20 per cent rise in the fourth quarter, the group said in its pre-close trading update

Fox Head, the Californian-based owner of sports apparel brand Fox, has relocated its European distribution hub from the UK to Menlo Worldwide’s site at Eersel in the Netherlands

The increase in online shopping has changed the retail industry for good and this year’s European Supply Chain Excellence Awards judges will be looking at how the companies nominated for the Retail & E-Tail award have dealt with this

The British International Freight Association has welcomed the news that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and International Federation of Freight Forwarders (FIATA) have approved the standard for the multilateral electronic air waybill