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The offices of British Airways and a number of other leading air-cargo companies, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been raided by European and US anti-trust officials, as part of a coordinated investigation into alleged cargo price-fixing.

Peter Hendy, who took over as London Transport Commissioner at the beginning of February, is to deliver the keynote address at the Freight Transport Association’s London Freight Summit 2006.

Postcomm, the independent regulator for the postal services, has proposed penalties of £11.7m on Royal Mail for serious breaches of its licence obligations.

Cert, a bonded warehousing, distribution and contract packing operator, has won a multi-million pound contract to be Red Bull’s logistics partner in the UK.

PSA, the Singapore port operator has withdrawn from the three month bidding battle for P&O. The way is now essentially clear for DP World to secure ownership of the UK container terminal operator.

An employment tribunal at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne has found that Asda illegally offered an inducement to 340 trade union members, to give up the collective agreement negotiated by the GMB union.

Kettering transport company Knights of Old (KOO) has switched its palletised distribution network to Palletforce, in a move that complements the network’s new consolidation programme.