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• Gerber Foods is using English Welsh & Scottish rail freight to move up to 66 tonnes of soft drinks a day from its Somerset factory.
• Detroit Diese boosted its third-quarter profits by 7% to £325m. Profit for the three months to September 30 grew by 15% to £5.1m.
French and Danish transport groups Geodis and DSV completed the acquisition of on 1 November.
Daly Transport Services and Fashion Distribution are joining forces in a to service branded importers and designer labels. DT Services will operate out of Hornsey, London.
• Reports suggest that some
Italian may stop moving goods from next Sunday (9 November) to protest at their government's unwillingness to help them.
• The container terminal at Thamespott, Kent has been extended to allow it to load two ships at a time.
• West London-based Anglo-Polish haulier
Trans, which runs 37 trailers, has gone into administrative receivership with debts of £2m. Accountants KPMG failed to sell the company as a going concern.
• Norfolk-based iJE & PJ Jolley has asked Commercial Motor to point out that the company's reported income tax offences relate only to night-out money. The company is still trading as usual.