Author: Christopher Walton

Acumen has invested £3.6m in vehicles to support new contracts with Jaguar Land Rover

A new award this year will recognise the extra-ordinary achievements of logisticians working in particularly difficult conditions – disaster response, aid provision or support for military operations

Competition from TNT Post UK could cost Royal Mail more than £200m by 2017-18 threatening the universal postal service, Moya Greene, CEO of Royal Mail, has warned in the group’s annual results

A £22m profit from Eddie Stobart Logistics helped cover Stobart Group’s costs after selling off a majority share in the business, the group revealed in its results for the year to 28th February

Central Systems & Automation has sold a majority stake of its business to US heavy engineering and materials handling equipment manufacturer Terex Corporation for an undisclosed sum

Online retail is set to take up to 40 per cent of all trade volumes by 2015, according to research by Deutsche Post DHL

Parcelforce, Royal Mail’s express parcels business, is to launch a Sunday delivery service in June for online shoppers through participating e-retailers

Pressure to maintain service quality at the same time as cutting costs is hardly unknown to logisticians, but there is a constant search for new innovative ways to approach the problem

Palletways has opened a new depot in Nijmegen to meet growing demand in the Benelux region

Aldi has chosen a single envelope design for its new cold store warehouse and distribution centre at Goldthorpe near Barnsley