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Developer Wykeland has secured detailed planning for a +2 million ft2 warehouse at its MeltonWest business park in East Yorkshire, which has been linked to Amazon as an end user as reported in Logistics Manager last year. The detailed proposals for the 61-acre site were given the go-ahead this week by a vote of 10…
UK transport and logistics workers take nearly three times more sick leave than the average UK worker, according to new research that identifies the countries most and least notorious for pulling a sickie. Research by Mitrefinch found transport staff took 11.4 days off sick, whereas other workers in the UK took an average of 5.8…
The lack of professional fleet drivers continues to top the national news agenda, linked to fuel shortages and wider supply chain issues. The shortage has also raised awareness of the broader challenges facing professional drivers. A recent study in London found that increases in the key air pollutants – PM2.5, NOx and NO2 – are…
Automated post and parcel distribution systems developer Beumer Group has introduced a new type of small- and medium-sized parcel sortation system. Installed for the first time in Germany, just in time for the peak Black Friday week and Christmas season, the system enables more efficient sorting of the growing number of small and medium-sized e-commerce…
Freight logistics firm Harbour International Freight is to make Trafford Park its new UK headquarters after agreeing a deal to let 43,000ft2 of industrial space at Merlin Park. In a deal brokered by JLL on behalf of landlord Custodian REIT, the transport, customs clearance and freight forwarding solutions specialist has agreed a 10-year lease on…
EO Charging has announced the filing of a new technology patent that it believes will transform the smart charging of EV fleets. EO’s new ISO 15118-compliant EV chargers and software will, the company suggests, “unlock the future integration of commercial EVs into the smart grid (‘V2G’) and leverage AI and machine learning to provide both…
Ford Motor Company and Final Destination Logistics exhibitor, DP World, have conducted a trial with a simulated autonomous vehicle at DP World London Gateway to demonstrate how useful such future technology could be to those managing – and employed on – large worksites. First launched in June, to explore the potential impact upon courier services…
Air cargo volumes fell by -1.2% versus October, according to CLIVE Data Services, reversing the trend traditionally seen in the peak build-up to Christmas. The company attributed this to congestion on the ground muting the normally busier period. CLIVE’s analyses of the air cargo market for the full four weeks of November 2021 measures the…
Out-of-home and e-commerce delivery company, InPost, has launched a new charity campaign, ‘Secret Senda’, in partnership with homelessness charity Shelter. The UK-wide initiative, which runs from today until 31st December, ensures members of the public can use any one of InPost’s 2,500 lockers across the UK, to send charitable donations to Shelter for free. It…
Parcel shipments will be delayed at customs if retailers, marketplaces and their logistics partners are not prepared for the arrival of Harmonised System 2022 (HS2022), according to cross-border data specialist Hurricane. In a month’s time, on 1st January 2022, the World Customs Organisation (WCO) will implement the 7th edition of its Harmonised System, bringing huge…
Retail returns specialist, ZigZag Global – which works with brands including Selfridges, Boohoo, Karen Millen and Superdry – has revealed some analysis of Black Friday weekend (26th November) data from 2021 to understand how shoppers are ‘returning’ to Black Friday and Cyber Monday post-pandemic. The headline stat is a whopping 129% year-on-year increase in return…
Batley & Spen MP, Kim Leadbeater, has officially objected to the development of a +2.8 million ft2 ‘Amazon’ warehouse in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, casting doubt on the capability of the end-user to provide the jobs claimed in the planning proposal put to Kirklees Council in July this year. The proposal is extremely controversial locally and…
In its Q3 trading update yesterday, supermarket retailer Asda outlined some of the proactive steps it has taken to ensure customers can purchase their favourite festive products this Christmas, including the chartering of its own cargo ship. To protect the availability of key festive products including festive decorations, toys, clothing and gifts, the retailer, owned by…
Industrial real-estate developer, Panattoni, has secured the first pre-let agreement at its 1.9 million ft2 Panattoni Park Aylesford development in Kent on the 90-acre former Aylesford Newsprint site. The 110,406ft2 facility has been let on a 15-year lease to DHL. The property boasts 12 dock and six-level access doors as well a 50m yard. It…
Citrus Durham has announced that it is working up detailed plans to speculatively develop a four-unit industrial scheme totalling 337,225ft2 at its £300 million mixed-use Integra 61 development at J61 of the A1(M). The masterplan for the 20-acre plot incorporates four high-quality units of 42,000ft2, 63,000ft2, 84,000ft2 and 148,225ft2 to satisfy huge regional demand. The…
A new flagship UK headquarters for global transport and logistics company DSV is underpinning plans for a 120-acre logistics and industrial scheme being proposed by developer IM Properties near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. The developer has notified the local community to its plans through a consultation document, which states that it is looking to develop the…
Royal Mail has agreed a five-year lease on a warehouse at Manton Wood Business Park near Worksop in North Nottinghamshire. The deal will bring employment to the area as Royal Mail prepares for the organisation’s peak period in the build up to Christmas. The 71,612ft2 property was recently refurbished by landlord Clearbell Capital and is…
3PL Simon Hegele Logistics has doubled its warehouse space with a move to a new facility at Diageo Pension s Trust’s 310,000ft2 Didcot Quarter scheme in South Oxfordshire. The company has taken a 10-year lease on DQ120, a 121,464ft2 facility – the smaller of two speculative buildings on the development. The property is expected to…
2021 has been a big year for electric trucks. Logistics Manager looks at some powerful developments The massive acceleration in online shopping and subsequent e-commerce deliveries has led to what some report was a 25% rise in the latter last year alone. And it is predicted that 10%-20% of the recent increase will continue after the…
Just a few days after the conclusion of the COP 26 conference in Glasgow, DB Schenker and Volta Trucks have confirmed a partnership and pre-order of nearly 1,500 full-electric Volta Zero vehicles – the most significant order for large zero-emission trucks in Europe to date. “We have many challenges to overcome on the road to…
AGVs were a key starting point in the road to autonomous working. But, asks Maria Highland, is there still a place for them in today’s AMR warehouse? Automated Guided Vehicles used to be what we called any unmanned device moving around the warehouse. Originally these would have been mainly forklift trucks moving along embedded tracks…
One way or another, the industry has managed to successfully surf the uncharted waters of Covid-19. Nick Bradley asks what we have learned to be in a better position for the next big disruption Over the course of the past 18 months, the global supply chain has been tested from one extreme to the other…
Having had an extensive career in the 3PL sector – as a solution designer, client and a consultant procuring third-party solutions – it has given me a vantage point to understand the strengths of the sector and consider what future service opportunities could help providers differentiate themselves. First, let’s talk about the strengths. The UK…
The Dept of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has issued an initial report following its call for views on supply chain security. After issuing a call for views the Department of Digital,Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has issued its initial findings on supply chain security. The call for views was in response to the series of very…
The fifth-generation of cellular internet connectivity, 5G, is set to bring in major changes across transport. How will it impact the logistics industry? Eusebiu Catana, Senior Manager, I&D, ERTICO Digital logistics is one of the big promises of 5G and comes with potentially great efficiencies and benefits. The logistics industry is essential for the European…
In his excellent 2020 book Outside the Box, Marc Levinson describes how container shipping has ‘supercharged international commerce’ over the past 60 years. Since published, we have seen the dark side of containerising much of global freight in large steel boxes. Until recently, we have taken it for granted that there will always be enough…
The prime minister last month revealed the real reason for leaving the EU: so that UK can be transformed into a high-wage economy. He told the Conservative Party Conference: “We are not going back to the same old broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills and low productivity, all of it enabled and…
A nationwide B2B survey among 350 retailers across the UK has revealed a deepening level of key concern felt by retailers leading up to this festive season. The study from software company, Scurri, also looked at how supply chain complications have caused changes in online retailers’ key growth markets and their feelings going into the…
Scania GB has officially open its latest sales and service centre, located at Eurocentral in Scotland. The £10m investment occupies a 7.8-acre plot and contains a fully operational workshop and parts department, with office accommodation and extensive secure parking. The building was recently used as a venue to host Scania’s Net Zero Conference, organised in…
Hai Robotics, a producer of autonomous case-handling robotic (ACR) systems, has announced its first project in the UK with Chinese cross-border warehouse operator Winit, ahead of the holiday shopping parcel delivery rush. The warehouse owner Winit is a Shanghai-based provider of overall solutions for cross-border e-commerce and runs overseas warehousing and distribution services in Australia, the US…
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