When Malcolm Rail took over operations at Daventry International Railfreight Terminal last year, its first point of call was to team up with Cooper Specialised Handling to find a way to speed up the required 6,000 weekly lifts and cut running costs.

Traffic through UK ports was down by nine per cent in the first quarter compared to last year, according the figures from the Department for Transport

DB Schenker is the largest overland transport operator in Europe, according to rankings released today (10th June) in Transport Intelligence’s latest report, European Road Transport & Logistics 2009.

Houston Bottling and Co-pack, an independent Scottish-based bottling and co-packing company for the Scotch Whisky industry, has implemented Duty Management software from RedPrairie in a bid to grow the business.

Oliver Wight has appointed Andy Walker, former supply chain director EMEA for paper, packaging and building products manufacturer, Georgia Pacific, as an associate.

Printing ink and pigments producer Sun Chemical has implemented a turnkey print and apply solution from Zetes at its plant in Badalona, Spain.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has become the funding partner for Sainsbury’s supplier financing programme Trading Finance Platform, effective 19th June.

Cranleigh Freight Services has bought 12 DAF tractor units and mega roller bed trailers to support the three major airline contracts it won this year.

Ordnance Survey has completed a two-year programme of quality control on its flagship transport dataset OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network (ITN) Layer.

Wholsesale bathroom distribution company Froy & Sons has implemented Solarsoft Business Systems’ Dashboard technology, enabling it to streamline internal business processes and improve management information.