Van builder UVB’s General Manager Rob Hampson took over from predecessor Terry Sinnott just over a year ago. The Mover’s Editor Steve Jordan caught up with him at The Mover & Storers Show to find out how UVB has changed since he took the reins, and how Euro VI is affecting the market.

FEDEMAC, the European Movers Federation, established in 1959 as a lobbying organisation dedicated to influence the law-makers and authorities both in the EU and worldwide, has introduced a new level of commercial membership.

E-mobility software company Virta has recently received a capital injection from energy company E.ON. The investment will accelerate Virta’s international growth and strengthen its position in the European market.

Bobby Black, Managing Director of Scottish removals firm Black’s of Brechin, is taking part in this year’s Inverness Etape, a fund-raising cycle event around the iconic roads of Loch Ness held on 28 April, 2019.

In December, Syndicat National des Professionnels de la Relocalisation et la Mobilité (SNPRM) in France elected a new Board in a rejuvenation of the organisation created in 1995 to bring together mobility experts in France and elsewhere.

Pickfords has won the ‘International Moving Company of the Year’ award at the Expatriate Management and Mobility Awards (EMMAs) 2018.

An All-Party Parliamentary Group for Road Freight and Logistics, chaired by the Rt Hon Sir Mike Penning MP, meets today (26 February) for the first time to address some of the big issues facing the industry including Brexit, air quality and the driver shortage.

Deputy Editor David Jordan looks at the UK’s proposals relating to the employment of foreign workers when the UK leaves the EU, deal or no deal.

EUROMOVERS will be holding its annual conference in Copenhagen, from 16-19 May, 2019.

This year’s British Association of Removers (BAR) conference will take place from 23-25 May in the historic English town of Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Swiss moving company Harsch has announced the acquisition of two local moving companies in the Vaud canton of Switzerland: CEVY and BOVY.

More than 400 Freight Transport Association (FTA) members and guests from all modes of the transport industry gathered at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel on 13 December to celebrate the second annual FTA Logistics Awards.

Brexit warning to businesses with overseas workers to renew their passports.

The minimum amounts you and your staff pay into your automatic enrolment pension scheme will increase from 6 April, 2019.

The Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain, Richard Turfitt, has reinforced the importance of continuous professional development for those responsible for managing haulage, bus and coach operations.

The UK Communities Secretary Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP has welcomed figures published in November showing over 222,000 new homes were delivered in 2017 to 2018.

Whilst pro-Brexit groups foresee a bright future for the UK as a global trading nation, chief executives and directors at ports and harbour authorities around the UK reveal that, with ten weeks to go, little or no planning has been done.

London-based class action law firm Edwin Coe LLP has filed a group action seeking damages for direct and indirect purchasers of trucks who were victims of fraudulent price fixing by major truck manufacturers over a 14-year period.

SilverDoor Apartments, has launched a new powerful online booking platform aimed specifically at the global mobility industry.

Pickfords Business Solutions and VINCI Facilities, a construction and facilities management expert, were awarded ‘Best Partnership in Relocation’ at the PFM Awards 2018 held at The Brewery, London on 7 November.