Some 619,000 goods vehicles travelled from Great Britain to mainland Europe in the third quarter of 2010, an increase of 2.5 per cent on 2009

Axxom Software has unveiled its Orion-PI Fleet Planning software, which is designed to improve transport efficiency, reduce environmental impact and lower costs.

High street sales volumes were up compared to last year for the fifth consecutive month, according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Distributive Trades survey, spurred on by the pre-Christmas period.

Eagle Freight has taken Vantage Asset Management’s 34,728 sq ft customs approved warehouse on Calmore Industrial Estate

Kiaba named Eastern Europe director at Ceva; Seafield takes on Measey as general manager; Priority freight hires McGill

German logistics firm, Spedition Gschwander, has created fuel savings of between five and ten per cent after deploying Shell’s FuelSave Partner software.

German retail giant Metro Cash & Carry has opened a logistics centre near Frankfurt airport dedicated to fish

Aramex has launched a new sea-air route from China into Europe which, it says, is a faster and a more cost-effective

Bulk chemical logistics specialist Bertschi has opened a plastics hub at Middlesbrough following the signing of a long term cooperation contract with SABIC

Achilles has re-launched THEMiS, a specialist web-based procurement decision support package aimed at utilities, public sector and private organisations in the UK and Ireland