Volvo Trucks has introduced a new safety function - Distance Alert - which makes it easier for truck drivers to keep a safe distance from the vehicle ahead and avoid critical situations.

TwentyCi Group has appointed Mark Witherspoon as non-executive chairman.

Arpin Group has appointed Bridget Ritchie - Vice President of Global Business Development and Corporate Accounts - to the Arpin Group Management Committee.

Aakanksha Bhargava, CEO, of India’s PM Relocations (PMR) has been conferred with the National Runner Up Award in the Lady Transport Personality Category at the celebrated Mahindra Transport Excellence Awards 2018, held in New Delhi on March 19, 2019.

Danish shipping giant Maersk will enhance its Remote Container Management (RCM) platform later this year with a virtual assistant, named ‘Captain Peter’. The app will assist customers throughout the journey of their cargo.

Bonnie Cameron from Aires reflects on the health of the US property market.

One of Norway’s moving industry pioneers, Jan Emil Carlsen, has died at the age of 84 after suffering from pneumonia, his family has announced.

Members and affiliates of UK-based Your Moving Group (formally U Move Group) gathered in Sheffield on 13 May for the Group’s national meeting.

Blockchain remains a popular topic, but supply chain leaders are failing to find suitable use cases.

E-Movers in the UAE has recruited a team of female packers to work from its Dubai office.

Figures from John Mason International show that over half its customers leaving the UK in the past two years did so because of Brexit.

Burke Bros Moving Group was pleased to again be the official logistics provider for the annual Wolverhampton to Aberdovey, Wales, Charity Bike Ride held on 21 June.

After gaining regulatory approval from the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), four container shipping companies - AP Moller – Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Ocean Network Express - officially established the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) on April 12, 2019 in Amsterdam.

Online freight forwarder iContainers says that the US is still experiencing supply chain headaches over a year since the hard enforcement of the Electronic Logging Device (ELD).

Bill Paxton from Paxton International in Washington, DC has been appointed as chairman of AMSA (American Moving and Storage Association).

Scania has opened a new commercial vehicle service centre close to Gatwick airport in the UK.

Richard Dolan from Simply Store recently spoke at the EUROMOVERS conference in Copenhagen promoting his Simply Store franchise and recruiting franchisees for a business that he expects will retrieve at least some of the storage business that was taken from the removals companies by self store.

Graebel has its consulting service that helps Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies imagine and introduce a tailored mobility strategy designed entirely around their business needs.

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has launched an enhanced insurance scheme for its members.

Online freight forwarder iContainers says the maritime industry will be left ‘shaken’ for at least a year following the implementation of the IMO (International Maritime Organization) 2020 regulation.