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The flexibility provided by the Working Time Directive’s “Periods of Availability” is key to the way that many companies have organised their lorry operations,

P&O, the UK’s largest ports and ferries operator has received an approach from Dubai Ports World that could value the company at £3bn.

Pallet supplier Brambles says sales and profits are “well ahead of the comparative period in the prior year”. In Chep Europe, the company has experienced sales growth of around five per cent for the three months to September.

Mitsubishi is changing the way it does business in the UK involving a radical switch from a distributor-based operation to one that puts dealers in direct communication with the parent company’s European base at Almere in the Netherlands.