CARU Containers, who claim to be the world's largest independent supplier of new and used containers, has acquired rivals ECB Group and CCA. ECB is a regular supplier to the moving industry.

Movinga, a new online removals company based in Germany, has reportedly received around US$25 million in Series B funding from investors led by global venture capital firm, Index Ventures.

If you’re a driver, you probably think that if you were silly or careless enough to get 12 penalty points on your licence during a three year period the courts would ban you from driving.

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A, the world’s second-largest shipping line, has resumed vessel operations to Iran, after services were suspended in 2012 in response to trade sanctions.

Mike Reason, one of the founding members of Reason Global Insurance and known to many throughout the moving industry, has died.

At a seminar on 3 February, held by The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport at the offices of Holman Fenwick Willan LLP in London, Jamie Frater, Senior Asset Manager London Container Terminal, Tilbury confirmed that LCT will not be turning customers’ containers away, even if they do not have a Verified Gross Mass (VGM) after the deadline on 1 July, 2016.

By Steve Jordan. It was over four years ago that I last interviewed what was then Britannia Squab in Warwickshire. Since then a lot has changed. I was intrigued to find out what and why.

There are many family businesses in the international moving business, but few, perhaps, as successful as The Paxton Companies from Washington DC. Steve Jordan caught up with Freddy Paxton, the company’s chief marketing officer, to find out more.

On 1 July 2016 every container loaded onto a vessel will need a Verified Gross Mass (VGM) certificate. Here, Steve Jordan speaks to John Trenchard of APM Terminals to find out what his part of the supply chain is doing to help.

Do your trade customers take an age to pay you? They do! Have you ever wondered why? Here, Steve Jordan suggests that the old accounting rules just don’t apply in today’s financial environment.

Nikki Gee from The Mover magazine voices her opinion on the latest idea from the RHA.

According to FEDEMAC, approximately 1,500 HGVs were checked during the month of September and 148 were found to be ignoring London’s Safer Lorry Scheme’s rules introduced on 1 September, 2015.

Momentous relocation has announced the launch of a unique facility for existing and fledgling moving companies looking for warehousing and offices close to London: The Aylesbury Moving and Storage Centre.

Orphee Moschopoulos-Beinoglou, President of ORPHEE BEINOGLOU S.A. has announced that his company has been included in FORTUNE’s Annual List of The 30 Fastest Growing Enterprises in Greece for 2015.

The 2016 Commercial Vehicle Show will be held at the National Exhibition Centre on 26 – 28 April.