The Road Haulage Association is urging changes to planned restrictions on transport and distribution within London during the 2012 Olympics, imposed by Transport for London and local councils

P&O Ferrymasters has signed a cooperation agreement with Moscow-based Sovtransavto, a holding group for some 20 transport and logistics companies involved in international and domestic trades

Cheaper fuel tops the list of demands on the government’s new e-petition web site – ahead of capital punishment, legalising cannabis and EU membership

Given the events of the past year, it is not surprising that minds have been focused on making supply chains more resilient. But that is all about to be formalised with a new international standard ISO 28002:2011.

Premier Foods, which makes Hovis bread and Branston pickle, is looking for £20 million in savings from logistics and head office restructuring

The Channel Islands Co-operative Society is to extend voice picking to its Guernsey depot

Marketing firm MDA has outsourced its transport operations to City Link

Energy Minister Charles Hendry has given the go-ahead for a 900MW gas power plant at the London Gateway Logistics Park, which is being developed on the old Shellhaven site at Coryton in Essex

Mitsubishi has created three new ranges of forklift cabins – the VersaCab, PlusCab and ProCab ranges, for use on the 1.5 to 5.5 tonne Grendia family of diesel and LPG trucks

Online grocer Ocado is to open a distribution depot at Stanford-in-the-Vale between Oxford and Swindon from where it will distribute 10,000 orders per week