The Conveyancing Association has launched a new Best Practice Guide to help improve communications between conveyancers and estate agents.

The Board of Skills for Logistics (SfL) in Milton Keynes announced on 6 January, 2015 that it has taken the decision to close the business and is considering placing the company into administration in order to facilitate this closure.

Kennedy Movers of Waterford Ireland has joined the Alliance of Independent Movers, the first removals company in the republic to do so.

G&R Removals – best known for moving pianos - had an unusual assignment last December: to move a huge German WW1 naval shell from Exeter to the north east coastal town of Hartlepool.

reallymoving.com has reported an increase in interest in moving house throughout the UK of up 20% as a result of the recent stamp duty cut.

When Armishaws Removals of Wincanton. Somerset decided to sponsor the 2:15 at Wincanton Races on Boxing Day, the company could hardly have foreseen the result.

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has confirmed that The United States Air Force (USAF) is to pull out of RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire.

The Freight Transport Association has announced the appointment of David Wells as its new chief executive officer. He will take over from Theo de Pencier - who has led the Association for eight years - on 15 May.

Crown Records Management has appointed Mike Dunleavy to the new position of head of customer development and experience for the UK and Ireland.

Mike Jacobs, formerly project director of O’Neil Software, has been promoted to vice president of marketing. His responsibilities include messaging campaigns that promote the O’Neil brand.

3D drawings are helping Volvo Trucks and bodybuilders to work together to reduce the lead time on vehicles by up to two weeks. The drawings allow the truck and the body to be built simultaneously.

Oman-Beverly Smyth is the warehousing sponsor for the Pigs on Parade fundraising campaign in aid of Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation taking place Dublin in January.

On 6 January, 2015, Graebel Companies, Inc. announced that the company has embarked on a global expansion and will introduce ground-breaking initiatives for its Global 100 and Fortune 500 clients.

Arpin Group has opened New England's first 100% green gym for its employees.

Australia’s Grace Removals Group has continued its fleet replacement programme as part of its plan to meet and exceed Australian emissions standards and deliver on its commitment to safety.

The Global Shippers' Forum (GSF) has said that it welcomes the news that the EU’s new Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, will be keeping a ‘close eye’ on the mega-alliances in the container industry (see The Mover, January 2015, Page 20).

The December issue of The Mover included a Mystery Mover photo of the greatly missed Pierre Luigi Muzzio, of Alpha International of Naples, Italy. Pierre Luigi died in 2007 but Antonio Gil from Mudanzas Clara del Rey in Madrid wrote to tell us of a remarkable talent that he had.

Maersk Line and Hamburg Sud are ranked as the two most reliable container shipping carriers, according to performance rankings published in the new online version of the Carrier Performance Insight (http://cpi.drewry.co.uk) published by shipping consultancy Drewry.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd (HHI) has built the world’s largest containership, the first of five 19,000 TEU containerships ordered from China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) in May 2013. The ship has been named CSCL Globe.

From 6 May 2015 drivers convicted of a road traffic offence in any of the 28 EU Member States, will be prosecuted in the same way as if they had committed the offence in their home country. The regulations will come into force in the UK, Ireland and Denmark two years later (6 May 2017).