International Logistics Group Ltd., the UK subsidiary of the Yusen Logistics, the group's logistics company Japanese shipowner Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), has bought the Noel Topco Ltd., a Sheffield-based company that is the holding company of a group of ten companies, mainly Global Freight Solutions Ltd. (GFS) and Intermail Ltd. services to retailers operating via the Internet.

NYK specified that the acquisition is part of the strategy growth of the group in the logistics sector and highlighted that the demand in the UK e-commerce market is very high being the third largest market in the world after China and the USA.