Kuehne + Nagel is managing the transport for the Ben Hur Live musical across 14 venues.

Daikin UK has signed a further three-year UK warehousing and distribution deal with Norbert Dentressangle.

Calderhead Refrigerated Transport and Coldstore has implemented Four Soft’s warehouse management system 4S eLog at multiple sites.

Discount retailer 99p Stores has taken the former Woolworths warehouse in Rugby, which is being marketed by GVA Grimley

Online retailer Amazon has taken ProLogis European Properties’ 545,000 sq ft warehouse at ProLogis Kingston Park, Peterborough

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) project delays caused by lack of business-to-business planning and integration could cost manufacturers more than $1 million (£600,000) a month, according to GXS.

Polish health & beauty chain Rossmann has picked Vanderlande Industries to modernise its Lodz-based hub, with the installation of a six-aisle miniload automated storage and retrieval system, in a deal worth seven million euros (£6m).

Dematic is set to unveil a manual warehouse picking system, which it reckons can boost picking performance to some 400 cases per hour per picker, at the Logistics Link North show in October.

Transport industry leaders reckon theirs has been the sector hardest hit by the recession, according to a report, “Changing risks – changing responses: risk management in the transport industry”, by Marsh, the insurance broker and risk advisor.

Some 82 per cent of shippers are employing cost-cutting tactics and 60 per cent are rethinking their supply chains and relationships with third party logistics providers as a result of the recession, according to the 14th annual Third-Party Logistics Stud