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DHL has doubled the number of its global depots from eight to 16, aiming to strengthen its position as a leading global clinical trials logistics (CTL) provider.

Deutsche Bahn (DB) and Russian Railways (RZD) have jointly committed to the development of young academics by setting up a new Competence Centre for Logistics at the Graduate School of Management at St Petersburg State University.

Transport and logistics provider Gefco has won a contract from Kawasaki for UK warehousing and distribution of its motorbikes, jet skis, four-wheel-drive vehicles and garden power products.

United Airlines' pilots were joined on a picket line yesterday by counterparts from five other carriers in a show of growing domestic and international solidarity across the industry, Dow Jones News Service reported.

The chairman of Japan Airlines Corp, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January, said he aims to bring the airline back to profitability on a monthly basis from the beginning of autumn this year, reported Dow Jones Newswires.

Staff unions at SNCF will support a one-day national strike in France on 23 March in defence of employment.

Wal-Mart Canada has named CN as its Innovator of the Year, an award recognising the rail operator's efforts to deliver cutting-edge supply chain solutions for the retailer's evolving logistics network.

Davies Turner has improved the efficiency of some garment flows between Turkey and the UK by a third, in order to generate cost and environmental savings.

DHL Supply Chain has won a £75 million (US$112.8 million) contract to manage the warehousing and distribution of dry goods and chilled produce for BP's UK convenience retail business.

Norbert Dentressangle achieved an 11% increase in operating profit of €87.9 million (US$120 million) in 2009, despite a tough first half and a drop in turnover.

The German containership L¨¹beck narrowly evaded a pirate attack in the Somali Basin, north-east of the Seychelles last week.

Local authorities, regulators and politicians need to be educated on the importance of logistics, in order to overcome opposition to distribution developments.

Construction begins today on the first new deepsea port in the UK for 25 years.

Shippers are not to blame for pricing instability and the current state of the container shipping market, according to Andrew Traill of shipper forum The Shippers'Voice.

Panalpina Los Angeles has added an additional 3,900 sq m of warehouse space, further extending the company's portfolio of supply chain management services to clients in Southern California and beyond.

Kuehne+Nagel (K+N), which claims to be the world's number one seafreight forwarder in volume terms and among the top three on the airfreight side, is looking to achieve double the projected overall market growth rate in both sectors this year.

Singapore's on-airport perishables centre is approaching completion, and the national carrier is gearing up for a bigger role in the transportation of such cargo.

Goodman Group today hosted the ground-breaking ceremoyt for Interlink, its landmark warehouse and distribution development in Hong Kong's strategically important Tsing Yi port district, reported China Weekly News.

Panalpina Welttransport Holding is aiming for volume growth in line with the broader transport market in its air and sea freight arms, chief executive Monika Ribar told Dow Jones Newswires.

The recovery under way in global economic growth has encouraged logistics firm DHL to launch an investment plan that earmarks Hong Kong as a key distribution centre for the region, Paul Graham, the chief executive of DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific told The South China Morning Post.