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SEGRO has submitted plans for a 630,000 sq ft plus speculative warehouse on its 65-acre Kettering Gateway site, near Burton Latimer in the East Midlands. The site has outline permission for 1.2 million sq ft of industrial and logistics space which was granted in 2018. The developer is currently building a unit for BUNZL which…
Ligentia has offered free of charge storage for personal protective equipment (PPE) that has arrived from China in order to protect front-line workers. As part of the initiative Ligentia has been working with Shield Aerosol and Ligentia will be moving the first shipment into the UK of their new DR’s INK Shield free of charge….
An NHS logistics warehouse operated by Unipart Logistics has sold for nearly £13 million. It was bought by Urban Logistics REIT as one of several key acquisitions totalling £56.1 million this week. Specialist commercial property investment manager Orchard Street Investment Management, sold the 152,348 sq ft industrial property which it had held since 2006. Orchard…
CEVA Logistics and Mondadori Group have extended their contract for a further five years. The extended partnership between CEVA and Italian publishing house Mondadori, which started in May 2017, will see the 3PL manage the Mondadori’s logistics between Stradella 4 and Verona. CEVA will be in charge of distributing around 65 million items per year…
Forecasting the demands of a business is also essential, for correct distribution of goods. However, as the supply chain changes so rapidly, especially with the rise of e-commerce, can forecasting professionals and S&OP specialists keep up with the ever-changing trends? Michelle Mooney investigates. Reducing forecasting error is essential if a business wants to thrive. To get…
Arcadia Group’s Sir Philip Green is looking to borrow £50 million against its state-of-the-art distribution centre in Daventry to stave off the affects of the coronavirus crisis and keep the company afloat. According to reports in Sky News the fashion retailer has approached banks and hedge funds about a new round of borrowing against its…
The increase in grocery volumes as a consequence of measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to significant increases in distribution costs at the UK’s largest supermarket Tesco as its supply chain was ‘cleared’ of certain items. In the first few weeks of the crisis, Tesco said that significant panic buying led to a…
EV Cargo division Jigsaw has said that “robust systems” underpinned by t”flexibility and connectivity” have allowed it to respond to volatility in the supply chain associated with COVID-19. Jigsaw said it had adjusted its operational model for certain customers to minimise delays and ensure product is reaching retailers on time. Andy Humpherson, MD, Jigsaw It…
3PL GEFCO has moved 750 tons of spare parts from China to France in eight chartered flights to prevent production stoppages in automotive supply chains over the last two months. The parts – including turbo compressors, pistons, control panels, doors and mouldings – will be stored in airport warehouses to ensure fast access for clients…
Warehouse take-up in the first quarter of this year is up 24% on the long term average, according to new research by Savills. Approximately 7.95 million sq ft of warehousing space (in units of 100,000 sq ft +) were recorded in the first three months of the year. In addition, following the outbreak of Covid-19,…
Investors continue to seek out warehouse investments as a safe haven during the coronavirus pandemic. Urban Logistics REIT will pay out £56.1 million on nine distribution centres and a distribution depot development plot all sourced off-market during the coronavirus pandemic and has a further portfolio acquisition is in the final stages of negotiation that is…
Public capital management firm Triple Point has increases the amount of funding available to the NHS for procurement during the coronavirus pandemic. The funding increase will support the procurement and in-field deployment of vital equipment to cope with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. So far, the company has financed the sourcing of eight ventilators for the…
Sales at online fashion retailer ASOS have fallen by “20% to 25%” it said, as demand dropped following the introduction of COVID-19 protection measures. ASOS told investors today (8 April 2020) that consumer demand in an uncertain environment was “by far the biggest uncertainty” the business was facing, but all warehouses remain operational, albeit at…
Primark has established a fund to cover the wages component of orders placed with suppliers in its supply chain that have been cancelled. Since 22 March Primark’s entire store estate has been closed as a result of measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, which the retailer said has led to a loss of sales worth…
With large swathes of economic activity effectively mothballed logistics and supply chains in the UK are already feeling the effects. Take the UK automotive market. Registrations of new cars in March fell 44% year-on-year, effectively saved by activity right at the beginning of the month when car buyers get a new model with a fresh…
DHL Supply Chain has joined VentilatorChallengeUK, a consortium of businesses including Rolls-Royce, Ford, Airbus and UK-based Formula 1 teams including McLaren, to deliver some 10,000 new ventilators to the NHS. DHL will manage the inbound supply chain for two workstreams of VentilatorChallengeUK, which is ramping up manufacturing of existing, approved ventilator designs. VentilatorChallengeUK will see…
EV Cargo Global Forwarding has said that it is seeing a rise in demand for container storage as current shipping challenges caused by the response to the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to congestion at ports. The division of EV Cargo, which now refers to itself as ‘delivered by Allport Cargo Services’, said that containers from…
There have been more deals done and more space let and land sold in Greater Bristol during the first quarter of 2020 than in the same period in 2019 according to the latest figures from the Western branch of the Industrial Agents Society. Industrial take up saw 342,740 sq ft of warehouse space let and…
Hikrobot has launched a range of autonomous mobile robots for intralogistics applications through its UK systems integrator partner Invar Systems. The robots are designed to provide support the goods-to-person process for pickers, using automated transport to reduce the time employees need to walk around to find an item. The robots have the capacity to carry…
A massive parcel hub let to DHL in Runcorn has sold for £6.6 million more than it was bought for in 2016, representing a 24% increase in just four years. The 651,410 sq ft warehouse was sold by Atlantic Leaf for £34 million to Singapore based alternative asset management firm Elite Partners Capitol. It was…
The letting of a 31,500 sq ft speculative mid box warehouse at Leeds property company Pullans’ Unit 3 Whitehall Point in Leeds, West Yorkshire, has set a new headline rent for the region. Ferraris Piston Service has taken the property on a 10 year lease to facilitate its expansion. The property was being marketed at…
The Association of Pallet Network is calling on the government to provide support during the Covid-19 crisis as haulage businesses suffer due to declines in volumes. The APN has called on members of all eight of its network members – PalletTrack; Palletline; Fortec; Palletways; PalletForce; TPN; PallEx and UPN – to write to MPs and…
UK manufacturer Quickchange has restructured its supply chain to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), including a virus protection panel, to meet the needs of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Working with consultancy Delaware Quickchange has shifted production processes away from its cash management and retail products. On receiving the initial request from Quickchange, Delaware…
The number of new cars registered in the UK fell 44.4% year-on-year in March, while the number of new vans registered fell 54.3% as curbs on movement to stop the spread of COVID-19 brought economic activity to a halt. Some 203,370 fewer cars were registered than in March 2019, as showrooms closed in line with…
Industrial developer and asset manager Chancerygate has let and sold the last unit at its 101,000 sq ft multi-let Eaton Point scheme in Chorley Lancashire. The sale of the final 3,358 sq ft unit which has just been let to print and design business Chorley Print, was made to property investment company WS Properties. Chancerygate,…
Clothes and homeware retailer Next is seeking sale and leasebacks on warehouses and its Leicestershire headquarters that it holds freehold, in an effort to secure £100 million to boost its coffers through the coronavirus crises. Last month Next closed its warehousing and distribution operations and said it would not be taking any further orders via its…
ERP should help a business streamline its processes and manage their supply chains more efficiently. But more data is being generated than ever before, and with artificial intelligence and mobile data changing the way businesses interact with their ERP there is a real danger of data paralysis. Michelle Mooney examines how the next wave of ERP is changing the supply chain. Big data has the…
The FTA has urged the Treasury to create a Supply Chain Continuation Fund to help the parts of the logistics sector hit hardest by the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Elizabeth de Jong, director of policy at the FTA said: “In our view it is paramount that a Supply Chain Continuation Fund is…
Geek+ has appointed AMH Material Handling as an official distributor for its robotic products in the UK. The deal also sees AMH become a UK service partner for all new Geek+ customers in the UK, provide 24/7 national support. Adrian Carter, projects director at AMH Material Handling, said: “Over the last few years automation within…
CEVA Logistics has brought in shipments for the NHS on a specialist flight from Shanghai to London. A Virgin Atlantic plane was used to transport the personal protective equipment (PPE), virus testing tubes, and ventilator parts. CEVA’s teams in the UK and Shanghai worked together to bring nearly 1,100 cartons of supplies on the special…
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