Chris Coffey, the founder and managing director of Circle Express is stepping up to become chairman and chief executive, opening the way for Tom Ryan, hitherto business development manager, to become the new managing director.

The economy is the most important issue facing Asia Pacific logistics executives, according to a survey by research provider Transport Intelligence.

Culina Logistics is taking over Wincanton’s chilled consolidation activities in return for a 20 per cent stake in the company

TNT has been awarded a number of environmental and occupational health and safety standards for its global management systems.

Entertainment logistics specialist KB Event has invested £1 million in 12 new vehicles, ten of which are EGR Scania trucks.

Logistics operator Norfolkine has taken delivery of refrigerated trailers from Gray & Adams which are 92 per cent recyclable.

Germans spend 10.2 billion hours a year sorting out customer service enquiries, by far the most in Europe, according to the latest pan European customer service survey conducted by DHL Express.

Kerry Asia Road Transport (KART), the Thailand-based road transport company which is part of Kerry Logistics, is launching a service between Kunming in China and Bangkok.

Levi Strauss & Co has signed a contract with BSI Management Systems to deploy its Entropy Software, a web-based supply chain audit system designed to simplify the management of corporate-wide supply chain compliance.

Kookai UK has selected Kewill to supply and implement its MessageBroker Lite service to improve reporting of business critical data.