In November, the 9th generation of the De Haan family, together with Wim de Haan, Arend Reijm, Leonard Gort and the contractor drove the first pile for the foundation of a new container storage facility.

The 2014 Santa Fe Global Mobility Survey is in full swing again with HR and Mobility Managers invited to take part. If your company is working in the corporate mobility business maybe you might like to invite your clients to take part.

Yury Sokolov, an employee from Voerman in Russia, has been honoured with the task of being one of the relay of Olympic torch bearers for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

A consultation on a proposal to introduce a maximum mandatory speed limit as part of the planned upgrade to the M1 in South Yorkshire and the East Midlands has been published by the Highways Agency.

The UK government has approved funding for the Heysham to M6 Link Road and work has already begun on the project due for completion in the summer of 2016.

The Freight Transport Association has announced the return of the Van Excellence Conferences 2014, which are scheduled to take place on Tuesday 8 April in Elstree and on Thursday 10 April in Manchester.

White & Co has been ranked 56 in the Motor Transport Top 100 biggest players in the road transport industry.

In November last year ministers published figures showing that in the first month of the Help to Buy scheme more than 2,000 people had put in offers on homes and applied for a Help to Buy mortgage. That number has now trebled to more than 6,000.

Former President of BAR, John Tarsey died just before Christmas at the age of 93.

A recent newsletter from the Self Storage Association addressed a concern from Trading Standards that some self storage businesses could still be offering moth balls containing naphthalene to their customers for protecting items, especially clothes, while in store.

DVLA is improving the process for commercial drivers who need to change the address on their driving licence and driver tachograph card.

For trucks with trailers, slippery winter roads and downhill gradients represent a tough challenge for even the most skilled of drivers. There is always the risk of the rig becoming unstable and, in the worst-case scenario, starting to jack-knife. Volvo Trucks has now developed a system that significantly improves safety.

Roads Minister Robert Goodwill has visited the 15ft-deep sinkhole on the M2 and pledged to get remedial works done to UK road as quickly as possible. The hole is just one of the results of the string of severe weather which has been battering the country and opened up between the carriageways of the M2 between junction five and six on Tuesday.

Last Friday 7 February, Angus and Ria Russel from Britannia Lanes of Somerset and Bristol received a call for assistance from a local Facebook group called FLAG (Flooding on the Somerset Levels Action Group). The organisation was in desperate need to find donations to help the local residents who had been flooded out of their homes by the recent atrocious weather and for a distribution centre to help gather and distribute the supplies. Ria and Angus’s warehouse is only a few miles from some of the worst-affected areas so they immediately set about doing all they could.

French minister, Frédéric Cuvillier, has written to EC transport commissioner, Siim Kallas, demanding that he "take measures as soon as possible" to address infringements of cabotage regulations in the sector.

Intermovers Malaysia was short-listed in the annual Sustainability Awards for Supply Chain & Logistics.

According to Move with Us, the network of independent estate agents, homebuyers and sellers can reduce the amount of time it takes to buy or sell property by up to 11 days using a new online conveyancing system, which speeds up the legal part of the transaction and brings conveyancing into the 21st century.

2014 will be a big year on the Freight Transport Association (FTA) calendar as the Association celebrates its 125th anniversary.

Turning yoghurt pots into diesel and making jet fuel out of household waste are just two of the ideas in the spotlight as part of the government’s new ‘call for evidence’ on advanced fuels.

A new agency with responsibility for maintaining vehicle standards has been launched as the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Transport Minister Robert Goodwill has announced.