Kuehne + Nagel has opened an aviation logistics hub in Montoir-de-Bretagne in Western France to handle production logistics of Airbus’s manufacturing plants at Nantes and Saint-Nazaire

It is unlikely that there will be sufficient prime space available to meet demand in 2011 according to Lambert Smith Hampton’s latest research the National Industrial and Distribution Report 2011

Honda is to cut production at its Swindon plant to 50 per cent of the planned weekly level from 11th April, owing to supply chain problems caused by the earthquake in Japan

Bel, the group behind Babybel and Kiri cheese, has started using road-rail in its cold logistics following a pilot test in March

Trials of the next generation of tachographs show that savings of 45 minutes of driving time a day are possible in multi-drop delivery work

DHL Freight has opened a 20,000 sqm logistics centre near Kiev in the village of Kalinovka to serve as a main gateway for its network in Eastern Europe, especially the Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia

Oil exploration company Perenco UK has extended its contract with ASCO, the oil and gas logistics specialist, in a five year deal worth £21.5m

Karen Dee joins the FTA; Hitachi promotes Briggs;
Blydenstein made director at FEFCO; Traxon Europe hires Flacke

Niftylift, the UK-based manufacturer of cherry pickers, boom lifts, access and work platforms has avoided the need to move to a larger production and storage facility after replacing its reach trucks with Flexi VNA articulated trucks.

The company that Edward Stobart built may not be the biggest, but it has caught the public imagination in a way that no other logistics operator has