Logistics UK in talks with foreign secretary over Northern Ireland protocol

Local authorities across the country will be able to charge utility companies as much as £2,500 a day to work on roads in peak hours from next year.

Skills shortages in the logistics sector stretch beyond the role of HGV driver, with companies providing warehousing warning that they have been in “crisis mode” for two years.

International transport charity Transaid is part of a consortium which is to investigate how to identify and prevent human trafficking along key trade corridors in East Africa.