40ft Shipping containers have become so cheap to manufacture that it has become more economically viable, in some cases at least, to leave them behind when they arrive at their destination than to return them to their place of origin.

Maersk Line, the world's largest shipping line, has had a tie-up with the Swiss MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company and France's CMA CGM, two of its closest rivals, approved by US regulators.

Kirk Dugard, Project Manager for Dartford-based Simpsons Removals has been appointed to the BAR Board as a Directly Elected Director.

According to a recent survey by the insurance company Gocompare, around 50% of Britons that would like to move house will be unable to do so for at least 12 months.

The ability to unlock cash from pensions, due to be applied next year, could deliver a boost to the housing market and see more parents choose to help their children up on to the first rung of the property ladder, according to KPMG

Chris Burke from Burke Bros Moving Group, headed to Uganda in February trekking through mountains, forests and across lakes in aid of charity.

Sales were up an unprecedented 60% for vehicle tracking supplier Quartix. The company reported its turnover as surpassing the £13 million mark for 2013.

A north Staffordshire manufacturer has won its biggest ever contract, to supply three 38 person, seven floor goods-and-passenger lifts to a landmark new self storage facility.

Over two thirds of motorists want the government to apply the brakes on plans to lower speeds limits on the motorway according to a new poll by Motorpoint.

Sally Traffic, from BBC Radio 2, was at Welcome Break’s South Mimms service station, off junction 23 of the M25 in Hertfordshire on Wednesday to celebrate the motorway service operator’s first ever National Truckers Appreciation Week.

TruckPol, the dedicated road freight crime police division in the UK that closed in 2012 after its funding was cut by the government, has been revived by the National Business Crime Solution (NBCS).

Having recently achieved ISO 14001 status, Dijkshoorn Euromovers of Rotterdam, Holland has purchased a new removal lorry with the new high standard Euro 6 Engine.

Army Ants Removals has joined the Alliance of Independent Movers (AIM), the UK’s newest trade association.

There has never been a clear path into the removals business. Here, Steve Jordan asks whether it’s now time that there was.

Buzzmove.com. the new price comparison website for the UK moving industry, has just announced a $650,000 (£395,000) investment brokered by Telefónica, the owner of O2. The new investment will allow the company to roll out the service, trialled in London over the last nine months, nationwide.

This month I thought I might tackle a subject relevant to all of us that are European citizens. In March, the European Parliament (EP) Plenary Session adopted stricter rules upon the protection of personal data after voting on its 1st Reading of the draft regulation and directive - updating and modernising the 1995 Data Protection Directive.

Results from the 2014 KPMG’s Real Estate Invest Survey (RE-Invest Survey) show that the global real estate market will see a resurgence of deal activity over the next 12 months. A bullish attitude is back as investors target opportunistic assets to maximise their returns.

Long-term placements, where executives are encouraged to build a new life abroad for the good of their company, are being rejected in favour of short-term foreign assignments, with staff expected to uproot themselves regularly.

Hendley Removals & Storage is a new company, started by brothers Darren and Matthew Hendley, in Paddock Wood Kent. Steve Jordan stopped by to talk about the business and to find out the answer to two fundamental questions: What makes them different and why would two guys, with no experience in the industry, start a moving business in the middle of a recession?

Paul Evans has bought Momentous in Aylesbury, UK, returning him to the moving industry he left almost three years ago. It’s a small company with a big potential. Now that Paul’s involved, that future has taken on a whole new hue of rose. Steve Jordan spoke to him at the FIDI conference in Singapore to find out more.