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Canon Europe has appointed Perry Buenen as chief of supply chain management, responsible for strengthening customer collaboration across the company’s pan-European supply chain infrastructure.

DHL Exel Supply Chain has been awarded a contract to handle the delivery of “The OWL” wireless electricity monitors by UK business 2 Save Energy.

Rochdale-based JPM Eco Logistics received £100,000 investment from venture capitalists, Deborah Meadon and Theo Paphitis on the BBC television programme “Dragons Den”.

Nearing the end of the year offers the opportunity to reflect on what might lie ahead for supply chain management in 2008. What will be the key trends?

The logistics market is changing and that presents new challenges for the UK Warehousing Association. As a result, says chairman Derrick Potter, the association needs to be forward thinking in developing its operations.

The decision by the Far Eastern Freight Conference to impose a congestion charge of £70 ($145) per TEU on cargo coming into the UK from Asia has, quite understandably, been greeted with outrage by shippers and forwarders alike.