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Approximately 500 staff at Woolworths distribution centres across the UK will lose their jobs at the end of December as stores will be ceasing to trade at the beginning of January.

Transport secretary Geoff Hoon has said freight is key to the competitiveness of the UK economy in a new Department for Transport policy document published today (16th December 2008).

Lothar Alexander Harings is set to become a member of the management board of Kuehne + Nagel International AG, responsible for global human resources, effective 1st April 2009.

Greggs the baker has signed a five-year contract with Norbert Dentressangle to provide bespoke rigid and drawbar combination trunking between its Nation Savouries Centre in Newcastle Upon Tyne to its southern distribution centres.

UPS has opened a new international hub in Shanghai in a bid to improve access to China and speed up the movement of express packages and heavy freight around the world.