Steve Jordan talks to Angie Mirams from Welti-Furrer: Switzerland’s oldest moving company.

Deputy Editor David Jordan takes a trip to the West Midlands to visit, one of the UK’s top commercial vehicle body manufacturers, JC Payne.

It may seem like common sense, but many companies overlook the benefits of maintaining a clean, accurate and well managed database. Here Darren Frostick, Director of Leading Edge Market Solutions – a company that supplies information for the removals, office fit-out and telecoms industries about companies planning to relocate - gives his advice on how to keep your data relevant and up to date.

EUROGROUP has picked up the award for Global Team of the Year Small Program at the 5th annual International Movers Convention (IMC) in Phuket Thailand in recognition of the company’s increased movement of international shipments.

A new organisation, MoverShip, based in Switzerland, has recently launched a new website that helps moving companies fill space on vehicles and get backloads throughout Europe.

News that tolls on the Severn bridges are to be halved has been described as a step in the right direction by the Freight Transport Association.

Total and Philippine oil company Filoil have agreed to create a joint venture for the fuel sales business in the Philippines.

John Mason International is offering customers the chance to instantly add up the cost of packing up and relocating abroad - thanks to the launch of its smart new online quote tool: the Instant Quote estimator.

The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) has released its Annual Report for 2015.

On 12 April, 2016 Reason Global Insurance sponsored the FIDI Fun Run, held at the FIDI convention in Geneva, in aid of Operation Smile Honduras.

On 5 April, 2016, Highways England published its Innovation strategy which sets out for the first time its wide-ranging plan to ensure it is keeping pace with advances in technology, bringing benefits to road users up and down the country as well as unlocking economic growth.

The Mover, March 2016, page 8.

M&G Transport has spent £1.25m regenerating a run-down industrial building in Acocks Green, Birmingham and creating a home for its new brand, M&G SelfStore.

The migrant crisis is an ever increasing problem with a substantial impact on the road transport and rail industries. UK Border Force are now putting tighter controls in place at many of the ports, including Calais, Coquelles and Dunkerque. By James Lomax, Backhouse Jones Solicitors

On 5 March, 2016 the BBC reported that driverless lorries are to be trialled in the UK with the Department for Transport saying the UK would "lead the way" in testing driverless "HGV platoons"

On 1 April, 2016 the UK government’s small and medium sized businesses (SME) credit data sharing scheme will make it easier for new challenger banks and alternative finance providers to check credit worthiness of potential business customers.