RedPrairie is set to offer its products in Poland after signing a partnership agreement with Polish systems provider HIT-Kody Kreskowe.

Jayline Products has launched a product to prevent damage caused to palletised loads by the forks of forklift trucks.

Heinz has signed a contract with Kewill to deliver an integrated global customs system for its European operations.

Ian Baxter, managing director of RH Freight has called for MPs to reveal their transport policies in the run up to the general election.

DHL has launched a direct weekly LCL weekly service from Hong Kong to Guatemala in Central America.

The Co-operative Food is trialling the use of rail to carry produce between Daventry, close to its national distribution centre at Coventry, and a rail freight terminal at Mossend, near its depot at Cumbernauld, in Scotland.

Wars, earthquakes and floods can all cause major disruption to supply chains and it is all too easy to think of supply chain disruption in these terms.

AG Barr, the maker of Irn-Bru, has signed a three-year warehousing and distribution contract worth £18 million with Eddie Stobart.

International engineering group IMI has signed a three-year contract with Geodis Calberson, expanding its existing relationship.

Europa Worldwide Logistics is looking to extend its services in Eastern Europe with a combination of land and sea routes to the Baltic States, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine during 2010.