Tate & Lyle has signed a deal with Russell Group to deliver sugar from East London to Scotland by rail.

Iveco has delivered a Eurocargo diesel-electric parallel hybrid urban distribution vehicle to Coca-Cola Enterprises at the European Business Summit in Brussels.

Hyster has extended its Fortens forklift range with the introduction of an 8-9 tonne capacity series.

Surefreight, which operates between Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, reckons it has achieved cost savings equal to an annual £300,000 in trials of the EcoTrak system.

Toiletry wholesaler M&S Toiletries has ordered 25 Scania trucks backed by a five-year repair and maintenance contract hire agreement.

Parcelforce Worldwide has teamed up with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Wellcome Trust to deliver treasure chests full of activities and science experiments to more than 23,000 state primary schools across the UK as

I was recently fortunate enough to be invited to Downing Street for a reception on apprenticeships. It was an event attended by the prime minister and a number of other ministers (what is the collective noun for government ministers?).

Much has changed since the days when logistics was a matter of loading and driving a truck. Technology advancement has spurred the sector on to the point where it now – along with supply chain management – has become the backbone that supports today’s glo

The credit crunch has meant that the development pipeline for 2009 is virtually zero with static rents, rising construction costs, softening investment yields and a dearth of development funding all conspiring against developers.

Indeed King Sturge’s latest Industrial Floorspace Report says: “The level of industrial development under construction on a speculative basis within Greater London has fallen. There is currently some 602,542 sq ft under construction across eight schemes;