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The freight and logistics sector is still suffering a shortage of skilled drivers, according to the Freight Transport Association's July Quarterly Transport Activity Survey (QTAS), sponsored by Santander Corporate Banking.

The 35-staff firm, run by a husband and wife management team, Stephen and Colleen Walker, has already established clients in New York, San Diego and Miami, and is looking to build on this momentum with a renewed push into the world’s biggest food import market.

Stourbridge-based Greenline Coaches Ltd, one of the West Midlands’ leading coach hire companies, has purchased three new coaches to cater for strong demand for its travel services. The firm was supported with £500,000 funding from Santander Business Bank.

Greenline Coaches is a family run business whose ethos is to always put the customer first. The team have many years’ experience in the coach holiday, private hire and day tour sector, which has contributed to the success and growth of the businesses since it was established in 2010.

The Government’s new Apprenticeship Levy represents an attractive opportunity for the transport and logistics sector to broaden its skills base and bring in new recruits – including young talent that T&L businesses often struggle to attract.

While Mexico is currently the world’s 15th-largest economy, the World Bank has predicted it will become the fifth largest by 2050. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita is larger than countries such as Brazil, Russia, India and China, and, off the back of its fast growth, Mexico is edging up the list of countries that UK businesses should be looking to export to.

Cardiff-based taxi group Dragon Taxis has been bought in a multimillion pound deal by Veezu, a Newport company run by former Cardiff Devils chairman Paul Ragan.

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