Truck manufacturer Volvo has joined The Global Round table on Climate Change, which brings together more than 100 high-level stakeholders from around the world —

Royal Mail has approached Postcomm, the mail service regulator, asking to increase the price of both first and second class stamps by 6p to stem its growing losses.

Multi national apparel company House of Pearl has paid £2.4m for the freehold of a 43,000 sq ft warehouse in Milton Keynes through its subsidiary Poeticgem.

Easter Properties has submitted plans for an 11 unit warehouse and light industrial scheme totalling 158,066 sq ft on Land at Long Tens Way, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham.

NYK Logistics is to provide the sub-assembly and sequencing operation for Grupo Antolin, which supplies headliners for Honda’s CR-V, Civic and Civic Type S in the UK.

Aramex, the Dubai-based logistics provider, has moved its three divisions, Aramex, Priority Express and Vanguard, into one 30,000 sq ft building at London Heathrow.

TNT Freight Management has completed the first phase of Cargo 2000’s air cargo quality management system, at its sites in London, Chicago, Gothenburg, Malmo, New York and Stockholm.

The government has backed down on plans for automatic prosecution of operators whose drivers violate the new drivers’ hours rules.

Plans have been approved to demolish the former Chungwa building at Eurocentral in Scotland and create a new £300m business park which will include four new warehouse units totalling 244,000 sq ft.

New research by Atisreal proves that a typical logistics development significantly outperforms manufacturing and exceeds or matches a light industrial unit in terms of its contribution to a local economy.