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It seems that everybody is doing it. Deutsche Post and Exel are doing it. Kuehne & Nagel and ACR Logistics are doing it. And now Logistics Manager and Supply Chain Business are doing it. What we are all doing, of course, is getting together.

Lorry drivers will be limited to a five day working week on alternate weeks from 2007, the European Union has decided. Under new drivers hours rules, drivers will have to take a 45 hour weekly rest in any two weeks.

Cranfield School of Management has launched a Supply Chain Risk Forum in response to global events such as; 9/11, the foot and mouth outbreak and hurricane Katrina, which have all impacted on organisations and global supply chains.

The GMB union in Lancashire, has announced that its members employed at the JJB Sports distribution warehouse in Martland Park, Wigan, have voted by 9 to 1 in an official ballot to take strike action in a dispute over pay and conditions.

TDG has warned that profits for 2006 could be materially below those in 2005 because rationalisation in the retail sector means that renewal rates in UK contract logistics are lower than normal.

Business Post Group announces that Paul Carvell, chief executive, has resigned from the Group with immediate effect to pursue other opportunities.

DHL is making more than 60 staff redundant as well as abolishing a number of temporary posts and short term contracts. In total some 120 jobs are affected. There had been speculation that the number of redundancies could be as high as 250.