Shower manufacturer Triton has signed a deal worth more than £150,000 a year with City Link for the national distribution of customer parcels and the delivery of extended warranty mailings.

Toshiba Medical Systems Europe has extended its deal with Ceva Logistics for a further four years, building on a nine year relationship.

RH Freight is set to introduce two daily services between the UK and Lithuania and Latvia. Previously the route was served once a week.

Eye care group Bausch & Lomb commissioned an automated material handling system by Knapp at its European logistics centre at Schiphol in the Netherlands, as part of a multi-million euro investment in its supply chain.

As more than eighty heads of state jet in to support the Copenhagen climate change summit this week, few can be under any misapprehension that carbon reduction is falling from importance.

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has thrown his weight behind plans to resume serial production of an upgraded new generation of the giant Antonov AN-124 freighter aircraft.

Tine BA, Norway’s largest producer, distributor and exporter of dairy products, has commissioned Swisslog to design and implement a distribution centre in Oslo, worth £21 million (35 million Swiss Francs).

BMW South Africa has signed a three-year contract with Kuehne+Nagel for automotive parts and accessories warehousing and distribution.

Software house Tecsys has launched EliteSeries 8 Visual Logistics which it describes as a new technological innovation that will enable customers to streamline putaway, picking and packing and “achieve the highest in order accuracy and fill rate known to

Michael Proffitt has joined BiS Henderson as a strategic advisor focusing on knowledge based supply chain recruitment.