The UK’s high rate of fuel duty means that £1,000 of diesel bought in bulk on the continent will take a truck 220 miles further than if it were bought in the UK, according to the Freight Transport Association

Travis Perkins, one of the UK’s largest builders’ merchants, is set to save around £250,000 a year after switching to a fleet of Yale counterbalance and reach trucks and using batteries and a battery management system from Hoppecke Industrial Batteries

TNT Express has revised its targets for 2011 to reflect a challenging trading environment

Transport union RMT is to ballot its management grade members at Freightliner Intermodal for strike action and action short of a strike over pay and conditions

ProLogis European Properties has completed the sale of a 10,400 square metre building in Basingstoke to Sainsbury’s

The number of people earning a second income by trading online has doubled in the past year, according to a survey by Collect+

Menlo Worldwide Logistics, part of Con-way Inc, has launched Menlo Transport Services

Kuehne + Nagel has opened new logistics facility inside Contecar Port at Cartagena in Colombia which will serve as a regional hub for the group in South America

New supply chain director for LumenOptix; Fisher joins Instant Logistics; Pedersen for Agility; EMEA role for Dabrowski at Tydenbrooks

Nissan’s site in Sunderland is regularly cited as Europe’s most productive car plant – and a key element of its success is an integrated supply chain which is designed to produce the most efficient process flow