Automation specialist Vanderlande Industries is extending its relationship with Dutch research institute TNO for a further two years

The Kion Group has taken full management control of the joint venture company Kion Baoli (Jiangsu) Forklift.

Logwin, the Luxembourg-based logistics operator, has set up a subsidiary in Kenya

The Bond Group has received an interest-free loan from the Carbon Trust as part of an energy saving project at its warehouse in Sheerness

The Rail Freight Group has called on the government to drop plans to upgrade the A14 and invest in a rail link instead

Asda is to buy Netto Foodstores to compete in the smaller store sector, in a move that follows the announcement of plans to expand its home delivery business

Parcel service Collect+ has hired Mark Lewis, former managing director of eBay UK, as its new chief executive officer

Polish operator CTL Logistics has run its first train from Hamburg/Bremerhaven through Katy Wroclawskie in south west Poland to Sosnowiec, near Krakow

DHL Supply Chain has targeted the 3 billion euro market in outsourced service logistics in Asia Pacific which it reckons is growing at 25 per cent per year

Sofa retailer ScS taken delivery of ten Mercedes-Benz 7.5 tonners taking its delivery fleet to 55 vehicles