A Cold Move For Hammond

• George Hammond (Shipping), the international distribution company, is moving into chilled distribution. The Kent-based company is to lease a 4,500-pallet chilled store at......

Channel Link Under Threat

• The only ferry service between Newhaven and Dieppe could close because of huge losses, The twice daily service is owned by French company SNAT, a subsidiary of SNCF, but is......

C Company Buys Bullens

• Bullens, the Wincanton Distribution Services removals company, has been bought by Hoults Removals, NFC's removals division, for £3.9m. The acquisition, predicted by Commercial......

Ryder Wins Healthy Deal

• BRS has lost a long-term contract with Yorkshire Regional Health Authority to Ryder Distribution Services. The contract, based at the health authority's 9,000m 2 warehouse at......

• Gone South

• Norfolk Line, the Dutch haulage and shipping company, is closing down its Great Yarmouth operation and moving to Felixstowe. The 60,000 units previously shipped from Great......

Paper Prize

• Williams Distribution, the Transport Development Group company at Alltami near Chester, has won a contract to distribute paper products for Kimberley Clarke.......

Scania Slide

• Saab-Scania profits have fallen for the first nine months of the year to SKr892m from SKr1.57bn for the same period last year. Scania truck sales in Western Europe remained......

Moving Up

Newcastle-based haulage company Irving Transport Services has expanded its fleet from seven to 10 vehicles, doubled its depot size and become a limited company. It hauls for......

Tractor Changes

• Parcels delivery company Lynx has bought 60 ER_F' tractive units to replace part of its fleet, which was previously all Volvo FL7. Lynx has some 200 vehicles in total.......

: Market Maker • Nfc Will Be Listed On The Ftse, The...

100 largest publicly quoted companies, on 1 December. It will be the only distribution company on the list.......