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Unipart Logistics has won a three-year contract to service the new Jaguar Land Rover battery assembly centre in the West Midlands. More than 100 Unipart employees will provide production logistics at the site in Hams Hall, which will provide electric vehicle batteries for Jaguar Land Rover’s Solihull and Castle Bromwich manufacturing plants, in line with…
Deutsche Post DHL said that the impact of the coronavirus on group EBIT would be between €60 million and €70 million for February, after it saw trade volumes weaken in Asia. Chief executive Frank Appel said: “It is currently hard to judge how strong the impact of the Coronavirus will be,” as the company warned…
Noatum Logistics is to add a further 150,000 sq ft of capacity to its London Medway facility, which is set to be completed by the end of 2020. The Spanish freight forwarder said it is increasing the size of its UK retail and e-commerce logistics centre to meet increasing customer demand. Noatum Logistics plans to…
The chief executive of Wincanton, James Wroath, has told Logistics Manager that the 3PL will not rule out further ‘bolt-on’ acquisitions after investors and shareholders reacted positively to its “disappointing” aborted bid to buy Eddie Stobart Logistics last year. On 23 August 2019 shares in Eddie Stobart were suspended, and just over a week later…
OW Robotics is to debut an upgraded design of its goods-to-picker robotics at IntraLogisteX, which takes place at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, on 31 March and 1 April. OWR will live demo the system and visitors will be able to watch robots transporting pods to a picking station. The demonstration will give visitors a practical…
Ted Baker has said that the first phase of its transformation plans will focus on profitability, cost, and the effective use of capital. In an attempt to recover from its £58m overstatement of inventory, the company will initiate a number of cost-saving operations, including reducing its office cost base by reducing the group’s organisational structure….
E-fulfilment specialist 3PL Hallmark Consumer Services has deployed SnapFulfil WMS across the three levels of its 40,000 sq ft in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. As part of the deployment Hallmark will also use SnapFulfil Pack Station functionality caters for all labelling, coupled with Metapack capabilities, it provides carrier rate shipping to ensure the best value carrier…
Global 3PL Kuehne + Nagel said it is “continuing to see success” despite problems posed by the current state of the global economy and the unknown scope of the coronavirus. In 2019 the Swiss giant posted a 1.5% increase in turnover to CHF21.09 billion (£16.8bn) while adjusted EBIT rose 7.5% to CHF1.06bn – the first…
OCS Worldwide has opened two international mail processing centres (IMPCs) with New Zealand Post in the UK. OCS has been working in partnership with New Zealand Post on commercial parcel exports from the United Kingdom since 2015. The mail processing facilities, or ETOE (extraterritorial office of exchange) operations, with New Zealand Post will enable OCS’s…
Howard Tenens has taken a new lease on a 145,236 sq ft warehouse premises at ABP’s Port of Newport. The unit, known as the Neptune Works, is part of a self-contained 9.53-acre site fronting onto the junction of Usk Way and the A48 Southern Distributor Road, positioned at the entrance to the Port of Newport….
Labelling equipment manufacturer Accraply has taken a 46,265 sq ft warehouse in Irlam, Manchester. The company has taken Patrizia’s Unit 30a Northbank Industrial Estate on a ten year lease at a headline rent of £6.50 per sq ft following an extensive refurbishment programme. The unit comprises a detached single storey unit of 41,090 sq ft…
Pall-Ex has appointed Mark Steel as European MD for its international operations. Steel joined the company in 2016 as sales and marketing director, having previously held senior positions at Premier Logistics. The pallet network offers a Europe-wide service, delivered by national partners in eight countries, including France, Italy, Spain, and Romania. Steel said: “This is…
Eddie Stobart Logistics has revealed it made a statutory loss before tax of £199.8m for the six months-ending 31 May 2019 as a suspension of trading of shares was lifted. The 3PL had suspended trading of its shares in August 2019 after it posted a profit warning. This was followed by an aborted takeover attempt…
ABB and Covariant have partnered to bring AI-enabled robotics solutions to the market with a fully automated warehouse order fulfilment solution. Global revenues in e-commerce are expected to increase by over 50 percent within the next five years, rising from 1.7 trillion Euros in 2019 to 2.6 trillion Euros in 2024, according to Statista. Due…
Sensor manufacturer Lenord + Bauer has used an MELFA RV Series robot from Mitsubishi Electric to optimise its manufacturing production cycle in Gladbeck, Germany. The robot cells have taken over monotonous manual picking tasks on various batch sizes, which allows operators to perform more valuable work elsewhere. The high level of customisation of L +…
British Property Federation and Tritax Symmetry say that the logistics sector is set to be a key driver for economic, employment, and productivity growth in the UK. The logistics sector is set to continue to be a key driver of economic and employment growth and productivity for the UK, according to a report released today…
Workshop partner at the Supply Chain Conference 2020, Descartes, has bought Peoplevox for £18.9m. Peoplevox provides cloud-based e-commerce warehouse management solutions, (eWMS), and serves direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands. The eWMS allows customers to connect to webshop front ends, and translates order information into mobile-driven pick and pack processes within the warehouse. It then feeds parcel delivery…
I write this leader within throwing distance of the Home Office… an institution which has hit the headlines all week. It’s made the logistics sector in the UK face up to a serious issue: it is addicted to cheap, foreign labour. So, in Brexit-Britain, from1 January 2021, freedom of movement for European Union citizens in…
Aston Martin’s principal logistics partner DHL Supply Chain, has been awarded a contract expansion for the next seven years to manage its full in-bound supply chain in St Athan, Wales. Originally appointed for a five-year term in August 2017 it was decided that the contract should be extended to 2027. DHL currently handles Aston Martin’s…
RARUK Automation will showcase its new small parts pick and storage system at IntraLogistex 2020. The EffIMat system is patented with Box Mover Technology and can pick five items at the same time from different positions within its vertical shelving systems. It then delivers the items to the picking station on the same tray. Many…
CEVA Logistics has won a five-year contract manage spare parts and components for Airbus at its site in Hamburg. Effective from this month, CEVA will become responsible for consolidating spare parts and components at the site from other locations across Europe including Germany, France, Spain and the UK. At its 226,042 sq ft site in…
Plans have been approved for a three units warehouse scheme totalling 81,430 sq ft in Telford. Redsun Projects was granted permission last week for the three units scheme at Halesfield 18. Units will range from 14,338 sq ft to 39,967 sq ft. Each plot will contain dedicated car parking together with HGV parking and service…
Primark parent Associated British Foods (ABF) may face factory production delays as the Covid-19 virus continues to spread. In a trading update released today ABF said: “Primark sources a broad assortment of its product from China. We typically build inventories in advance of Chinese New Year and, as a consequence, are well stocked with cover for…
Packaging by Quadient, formerly Neopost, has launched CVP Everest, a high velocity packing system capable of producing more than 1,100 packages per hour. The CVP Everest measures, constructs, seals, weighs and labels each parcel. Packaging by Quadient says it can reduce package volumes by up to 50%, cut cardboard usage by 20% and eliminating the…
The Road Haulage Association has joined calls for the government to provide more details on its ‘points system’ for immigrants and the criteria for establishing the basis of ‘skilled’ work . Earlier this week the Home Office said that from 1 January 2021, freedom of movement for European Union citizens in the UK will end….
Logistics Manager understands that Amazon has bought Highgrove Group’s 95-acre FollingsbyMax site in Gateshead in the north-east of England. According to Companies House, Amazon.com became a person of significant control (responsible for 75% or more of the shares of the company) in Follingsby International Enterprise Park Ltd on 28 January, which subsequently changed its name…
Developer Wrenbridge in a joint venture with RPMI Railpen have acquired a nine-acre site in Dartford, paving the way for a scheme that could create about 400 jobs. The plot was purchased from Dartford Borough Council and Prologis and is located at The Bridge, a 1.8 million sq ft development occupied by the likes of…
Dachser has delivered hand-blown plate glass for the renovation of Big Ben, produced by Glashütte Lamberts, to the UK. German manufacturer Glashütte Lamberts will produce a total of 1,300 glass plates for Big Ben’s dial in the clock tower. Renovation work is also being carried out on the glass dials using glass plates from Waldsassen…
Harworth Group has submitted plans for one million plus sq ft industrial and logistics space on a site just off Junction 36 or the M1 motorway in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The 95-acre site represents the second and third phases of the Gateway 36 development. The proposals are for up to 1.1 million sq ft of…
3PL Hi-Speed Services has leased a 100,000 sq ft plus warehouse in Swift Valley, Rugby, Warwickshire. The TPN member took Aberdeen Standard Investments’ Cosford Point warehouse on a ten year lease at an undisclosed rent. The warehouse has 11 dock and three level access doors with 12m eaves. It has ground and first floor offices and 164 car…
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