New transport secretary Geoff Hoon has given the go-ahead to an increase in the number of flights at Stansted of almost ten per cent.

Electrical retailer Comet has signed a five year deal with Wincanton to manage its newly built south eastern distribution centre in Harlow, extending its long standing relationship with the company.

Crown has launched a new range of reach trucks, the ESR 5000 Series, which it says improves performance by optimising ergonomics and uptime.

TDG has announced that its acquisition by LIT plc has been completed.

Manhattan Associates has released Manhattan Supply Chain Intelligence

Palletline has opened a 40,000 sq ft site at Perivale Park in west London to boost service levels into the centre of the city

RS Components has chosen Geodis Wilson to manage some of its air and sea freight routes

Linpac Allibert has launched Linpac Services, a package of services designed to provide effective management of returnable transit packaging

TISS has launched an improved version of its TankSafe “Standard” anti-siphon

The UK arm of AMI, the trade-only air freight wholesaler, is focusing on Manchester with a five fold increase in the number of published airport-airport rates

Masternaut Three X has won a contract to provide a tracking system for Currie European covering the fleet of 420 trailers and 80 owned tractor units.

Automotive logistics company Gefco is to invest heavily in expanding its operations in Central and Eastern Europe.

Rugged mobile computing manufacturer JLT has added Mobexx to its UK network of value-added resellers and distributors.

Bisham Consulting has opened an office in the Netherlands to lead its development into Continental Europe.

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK has centralised its gateway network for LCL ocean freight business at it Bradford office