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Jars of English Provender Company products will soon be seen whizzing round the country after the Newbury-based sauces, condiments and chutney manufacture signed a deal to add highly distinctive livery to its transport fleet. A line-up of the company's best- selling Very Lazy Garlic and Very Lazy Red Chillies, plus Classic Fresh Dressing, Organic Sweet Tomato and Chilli Chutney and Hot Horseradish appear along the sides of the lorries.

Virgin Atlantic customers using the airline's Clubhouse facility at Heathrow Airport are being offered a new tipple. The airline will offer Akvinta vodka, a 5 times distilled 'super premium' vodka from Croatia, to its passengers prior to the departure of their flight.

XL Airways is to expand the number of seats available on several of its routes from Manchester Airport. The holiday airline will begin using new Boeing 737-900s from the airport on May 29 this year.

Rocketing demand for air travel could wreck the Scottish government's attempts to meet climate change eimmissions cuts, according to a new study. If the number of passengers flying from Scottish airports increases as predicted, emissions from planes could end up swamping those from all other sources - and sabotage ministers' plans to reduce climate pollution 80% by 2050 - the reports claims.

BAA is 'bracing itself for a possible break-up of its operations by bringing in external advisers to help it navigate an increasingly onerous regulatory burden', the Telegraph reports today. It says that the UK airports operator is conducting a beauty parade of investment banks as it seeks guidance on future regulation and strategy.

Ryanair is expected to reveal plans this week to mothball at least 20 of its Boeing 737-800 airplanes this winter as soaring fuel costs make routes uneconomic.

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has warned that Aer Lingus could go bust if oil hits $200 a barrel, the Irish Independent reports. He said yesterday: 'Half the airlines would certainly go out of business if oil hit $200 a barrel. That could include Aer Lingus. Only the strong airlines would survive and that would be British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France and Ryanair.'

The chief executive of Lufthansa has given another hint that the German airline will exercise an option to buy British airline bmi, the second-largest carrier at Heathrow, the Times reports. The news comes exactly a month after another Lufthansa executive said that the airline was 'determined' to buy bmi.

Scottish budget airline Flyglobespan is to be prosecuted for endangering the safety of passengers after allowing a 757 jet to fly 'illegally' from Liverpool Airport to America with faulty instruments, the Times reports. It will be the first criminal prosecution against a British airline for more than a decade.

Four deepsea con-ros under construction at the Hyundai Mipo shipyard for French owner CMA CGM will be equipped with electrical drive liftable car decks from MacGregor, part of Finland's Cargotec group.

SHANGHAI International Port Group (SIPG), the operator of Shanghai Port, handled 2.4 million TEU in April, up 9 per cent year on year, Logistics Week reported.

When it comes to environment, industrials, retailers and consumers agree on one thing: they need to speak the same language.

New Zealand beef products attracted attention at Korea's largest food and beverage exhibition this month.

The New Zealand China Free Trade Agreement Roadshow will help your business to develop the capability needed to maximise the benefits of the FTA.

Today's New York Times story on American Airlines' plan to charge for all checked luggage included a reference to Southwest Airlines that said, "Other major American airlines, including Southwest Airlines, said Wednesday that they were considering matching the fee."

ESS, the leading provider of Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) and Crisis Management software for enterprise sustainability, today announced that it has launched a major global initiative to provide packaged solutions to address five urgent business challenges: Climate Change, Worker Health and Safety, Environmental Compliance, Crisis Management and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting.

Northwest Airlines Corp will stop its freighter service to China's Guangzhou from July 1, the latest sign that high oil prices are buffeting the regional aviation industry, South China Morning Post reported on Friday.

PORT of Shenzhen's cumulative container throughput in the first four months increased 8.5 per cent year on year to 6.67 million TEU. Its overall cargo tonnage increased 14.3 per cent to 69 million tonnes, Xinhua reported.

"With the word 'logistics' as part of our name, we found ourselves often being confused with being a third-party logistics provider or 3PL", explains Steve Hensley, president, Blue Sky Technologies, Inc. "We would get phone calls for moving truckloads from point A to point B or we would get asked to manage a warehouse for a potential client. These are not our core competencies. Since our role is to help customers though visibility dashboard technology to better leverage their existing investments in supply chain infrastructure, changing the name seemed like the logical thing to do."

A subsidiary of YRC Worldwide, Roadway is working in cooperation with YRC Logistics Global on the expedited product. It is offering new supply chain services for international shippers at both origin and destination. The carrier is able to offer the service by utilizing multiple shipments from seven ports of origin in China. Once cargo arrives at US ports it receives priority unloading. Shipments are then expedited through Roadway's network with guaranteed delivery to final customer.