The Mover has been informed that Max Godfrey, previously of Whittles of Preston and a past BAR President has been unwell recently.

There is significant congestion at Long Beach and Los Angeles ports.

The Graebel companies have launched a new website this week.

Beijing, China has been assigned as the chairmanship of APEC, so the Chinese government has imposed traffic restriction between the period of November 3-12, 2014.

Michael Lacsni has joined Santa Fe Relocation Services in Australia as Director of Corporate Development.

Damian Aebischer has accepted a new challenge in his career as the Director of Moving at Packimpex Ltd. This is in addition to his existing role as the company’s Director of Finance and Administration.

A new Smart Vehicle Replacement Tool designed to help fleets adopt flexible life cycles has been introduced by Chevin Fleet Solutions.

Scania is offering free activation and a ten year subscription to its OnBoard Monitor telematics package to the operators of Scania trucks built from 2011 onwards.

O’Neil Software recently announced its first Hosted RS-SQL customer, Professional Records Imaging Management (PRIM) based out of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, who is now running its records management operation directly from O’Neil’s new cloud service.

After a long history in its classic building in the fashionable neighbourhood of San Telmo, the company has relocated to a larger and more modern combined warehouse and office space in the neighbourhood of Munro, one of the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires, closer to customers and with space to grow and expand.

Voerman in the Netherlands has introduced a new service to help customers make good use of leftover food when they move house.

Port Bulgaria West launched a new Black Sea Roll-On/Roll-Off (RO/RO) service between the Bulgarian city of Burgas and the Georgian port of Poti on 13 August, 2014.

Crown Relocations has announced a Gift Box donation programme in conjunction with its long-term charity partner, The Salvation Army, Hong Kong.

Top management at Volvo Trucks’ Head Office in Warwick got a soaking last month as they took part in the ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’.

KPMG’s UK Head of Infrastructure, Building and Construction, Richard Threlfall, has recently reported the sharpest rise in housing construction in the UK since November 2003, which must be good news for the moving industry

On 23 August, 2014 Edward Bernstein died aged 97.

Phil Stewart has re-joined Clark & Rose after a two-year break. Phil had been with Clark & Rose for ten years before joining Constantine in 2012.