JOHN West Foods Ltd has awarded CEVA Newsfast a logistics contract worth GBP6 million (US$11.7 million) annually.

CEVA Newsfast, a port of CEVA Logistics, said in a statement that the long term contract, which started on April 1, includes managing the supply chain of John West's range of canned-food items once they have been imported into the UK from its canning factories in the Seychelles, Ghana and Portugal.