Harrow Green are known as specialist relocation experts for museums and galleries.

A new nationwide study commissioned by Eskenzi PR, and carried out by OnePoll, examined how video conferencing has changed workers’ perception of their colleagues. The results, announced in May, found that 40% of UK workers judge their colleagues on how their house looks over video conferencing.

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is urging the UK government to follow through on its promise made two years ago to provide safe parking spaces for HGV drivers charged with keeping goods moving throughout the pandemic and beyond.

After building a career in the moving industry, Maarten van Zutphen from The Netherlands has ‘gone it alone’ with the launch of his new company CANI Consultancy & Management.

UTA, a leading provider of fuel and service cards in Europe, together with DocStop and Service 24 Notdienst GmbH, are providing truck drivers on Austrian motorways and expressways with free protective masks and disinfectant during the coronavirus pandemic.

Optimal Monitoring in the UK is offering to help businesses minimise empty building energy spend during the coronavirus outbreak, free of charge.

It may be hard to find many positive aspects of the COVID-19 lockdown, but it seems that the reduction in pollution caused by emissions from vehicles and fossil fuelled power stations has made a massive difference to the air we breathe and resulted in dramatically fewer deaths from respiratory diseases.

David Blum, a major figure in the Asian self storage industry, died on 10 April, 2020 of COVID-19-related complications. He was 71.

Copenhagen Airports, AP Moller - Maersk, DSV Panalpina, DFDS, SAS and Ørsted have brought together the demand and supply side of sustainable fuels in a unique partnership, with the concrete vision to develop a new ground-breaking hydrogen and e-fuel production facility as soon as 2023.

Sean Bradley, Managing Director of Freightworks, has provided an update on business in Dubai.

The property website www.localsurveyorsdirect.co.uk reports that it saw a sharp increase in activity in the UK housing market in May and June following the slump due to the coronavirus lockdown.

GAC in Dubai has come up with a fun idea to help keep children occupied during the recent enforced lockdowns: playhouses made of cartons. Shawn Wood, Regional Manager in Dubai, said it was the idea of Klaus Holmager from the company’s Bahrain office.

Ian Studd, Director General of BAR (British Association of Removers) in the UK, has been working with the Trailblazer group to develop a new apprenticeship standard for Category C drivers, the category most appropriate for the moving industry. The new apprenticeship is expected to be approved towards the end of this summer.

Post-lockdown demand from home movers, especially vendors, remained exceptionally strong in the past week as visitor volumes to estate agent websites broke through pre-COVID-19 levels and people sought immediate support online in greater numbers than ever before, the latest data from the Yomdel Property Sentiment Tracker (YPST) shows.

Suddath has recently launched a new global website, suddath.com. The company said that the site provides an intuitive navigation and site structure, a breadth of helpful and informative content, enhanced functionality and improved site speed.

Guidance issued by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) in the UK offers more clarity on the reporting of coronavirus cases in the workplace under RIDDOR regulations (The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013).

ISS Relocations in Dubai has announced the acquisition of the relocations business from Inchcape Worldwide Movers.

On 27 May, 2020 the first container ship, the SCA Tunadal, arrived at Sweden’s newest freight port, Stockholm Norvik Port.

Website live-chat service provider Yomdel is offering British Association of Removers (BAR) members a free 30-day trial of its 24/7 managed live chat service.