Recent data from the Netherlands Statistical Office (CBS, 2024) indicates that the Netherlands continues to be a top destination for highly skilled migrants.

Craig Reilly, from DASA (Dubai Arabian Shipping Agency LLC) in Dubai has been awarded the trophy as the ‘The Middle East Business Leader of the Year’.

A few predictions and a little advice to help you prepare your business for the year to come, from Laura Moxham of Your Business Angels.

Ramiro Quiros, from Movingtech.ai, provides a beginner’s guide to AI for moving companies.

At last, the EU has standardised charging ports for mobile phones and other portable electronic devices with all new devices sold in the EU now required to support USB-C charging.

The EU’s Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive, intended to create a more balanced gender representation on the boards of listed companies across all EU Member States, is set to come into force on 30 June, 2026.

Forum for Expatriate Management has once again honoured the Mobility industry in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at the EMEA Expatriate Management & Mobility Awards (EMMAs), presented in London on 30 October.

The Movers and Storers Show took place at Stoneleigh in the UK on 19 and 20 November, 2024.

Atlas World Group International has announced that it has appointed Christy Lewis to the position of vice president, general manager. Christy joined the Atlas team as director of commercial operations in July 2019.

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) in the UK is urging the government to reform a penalty scheme which is seeing some transport operators and drivers unfairly penalised when ‘clandestine entrants’ are found on vehicles.

It’s a commonly heard, from companies in the West, that their efforts towards improved sustainability are diminished because other countries produce most of the emissions and do not take environmental sustainability so seriously.

Stephan Strauss has recently taken over as chairman of the Executive Board at EUROMOVERS Worldwide Alliance, the global moving network.

John Mitchell, Business Development Manager with Rotom Roldorent, crate hire and equipment pooling company for the moving industry, looks at the changing world of crate rental.

Steve Jordan reports on a panel discussion in Las Vegas exploring what today’s customers want and what the mobility industry needs to do to keep them happy.

During the IAM Annual Meeting & Expo in Las Vegas in October, IAM (International Association of Movers) announced a ‘soft’ launch of the Global Moving Foundation (GMF).

Anthony A Shipp, President and CEO of M. Dyer Global in Hawaii, explains how the US Global Household Goods Contract (GHC) could reshape Hawaii’s moving industry and impact local companies.

Ebru Demirel, from Asyl International Movers in Türkiye, Chair of the selection committee for the IAM Hall of Honor, opened the 2024 ceremony at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas in October.

Atlas Canada has announce that it has acquired Orbit Brokers, a family-owned provider of customs brokerage services founded in 1988.

The UK’s Office of the Traffic Commissioner has advised that from the end of January 2025, as part of a modernisation process, all alterations to transport managers on an operator’s licence must use the digital process already available within the Vehicle Operator Licensing (VOL) system.

Atlas Van Lines in the USA, the largest subsidiary of Atlas® World Group, has been introduced to the USAA Perks program as a full-service moving partner.