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The UK’s biggest surplus food distribution charity, FareShare, has opened a new warehouse in Milton Keynes to provide an estimated 370,000 meals t0 people in need over the next year.The regional centre will be FareShare’s 25th warehouse in the UK, aims to serve 49 charities and community groups and will reach over 5,200 people at…
Work has started on a £60 million, 715,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art logistics facility for Europa Worldwide Group in Midlands Logistics Park in Corby. The scheme is due for completion in June 2020 and will double the size of Europa Warehouse’s logistics portfolio. The facility is being constructed to a high-quality institutional specification, including above market…
Demand for global air freight, measured in freight tonne kms, fell 3.9 per cent year-on-year in August – the first time since the financial crisis of 2008 that demand has fallen for 10 consecutive months. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), freight capacity rose by 2 per cent in 2019, meaning capacity growth…
Panattoni has submitted plans for a 305,000 sq ft warehouse at Crewe Commercial Park. The warehouse will be built on a 14-acre plot, adjacent to its newly completed 240,000 sq ft speculative logistics facility The developer has submitted a reserved matters application for a warehouse of 291,239 sq ft, along with 13,864 sq ft of…
Peveril Securities and Marchmont Investment Management have sold South Central, an urban logistic warehouse in Orpington for nearly 70 per cent more than they originally bought it. Savills advised Peveril and Marchmont on their original purchase of the property in Q4 2018 for c. £9 million. Following an extensive refurbishment and new letting, contracts have…
A Scottish judge has upheld a landlord’s right to demand that e-commerce giant Amazon remove itself from a warehouse it owns in Scotland. Investment property firm M7 gave Amazon six months’ notice to quit the 300,000 sq ft warehouse known as Unit 1 Faulds Park, Gourock in February as Amazon’s lease was due to terminate…
Avon Freight Group has signed a 15-year lease for 93,720 sq ft warehouse at St Francis Group and the Richardson family’s Velocity 42 scheme in Redditch. Freight/logistics operator Avon Freight Group is already based in Redditch and is expecting to move in with immediate effect. The signing of the lease comes at a time of…
A 10 per cent tariff on commercial vehicles in the event of a no-deal Brexit has been labelled a “tax on quality” that will “hinder the logistics industry contribution to environmental savings”. Freight Transport Association deputy chief executive James Hookham said: ”There should be no additional financial penalty on buying new vehicles. At a time…
Geodis and chemical company Arkema have tested no-deal Brexit customs arrangements through a dry run organised by French Customs. Geodis and Akrema took part in the trial on 24 September, shipping goods from the Arkema plant in La Chambre, south eastern France to the United Kingdom, under no-deal conditions. The two had to evaluate advance…
Recent research indicates that innovators and early adopters of new technology have a few things in common. They are companies with above-average supply chain performance. They share similar priorities. They view technology similarly. And their approach has made them leaders. According to their responses in a recent supply chain market survey, top-performing companies are innovators…
Hoyer has called for increased standardisation and improved transparency between different suppliers in the chemicals supply chain. The German bulk logistics 3PL is to work with the European Chemical Transport Association (ECTA) to develop a standard framework for transport data and message definition. This, it said, would improve end-to-end supply chain transparency and collaboration across…
JF Hillebrand and its subsidiaries, Trans Ocean Bulk Logistics and Satellite Logistics Group (SLG), are to rebrand as Hillebrand. Cees van Gent, chairman and chief executive, said “Our mission is to deliver liquids and, adjacent to that, other sensitive products in a reliable way, with ultimate care, in the shortest possible transit times and always…
This may be a gutsy move, but I’m going to challenge some comments yesterday from the new chairman at DSV Panalpina, Professor Thomas Plenborg. “Once we’re 12-18 months into the integration of Panalpina, and we can affirm we’re on track, then I think we’ll start to talk about the possibility of boosting organic growth through…
Transport management software company Mandata has appointed Chris Rigg as its next chief executive, replacing Mark Norcliffe who retires next month. Rigg was most recently chief executive at Quantum Pharma, prior to its sale to Clinigen. Rigg said; ”we operate in a world where the adoption of technology and software solutions are critical to the…
Gazeley is proposing to speculatively develop a 746,478 sq ft warehouse at its Magna Park Lutterworth scheme in the East Midlands subject to planning. The huge facility is one of four properties on a speculative scheme totalling 1.3 million sq ft being brought forward by Gazeley following its acquisition of a 220-acre tranche of land…
The new chairman of the recently merged DSV Panalpina, Professor Thomas Plenborg, has said that the business will be targeting acquisitions in the road freight sector – once the integration of the two businesses has been completed. DSV completed its takeover of Panalpina in August, creating a business which will have sales of some £14.5…
Heathfield, East Sussex-based Palletways member Independent Logistics Solutions has appointed Brian Lee as its general manager. Lee has moved from Surrey-based Fredrick R Miller, also a Palletways member, where we was the general operations manager. ILS currently employs 35 people, and covers the TN1-12, TN17-40 and BN20-27 postcodes for the network. Palletways UK MD Rob…
The Road Haulage Association is providing free industry advice on how Brexit will affect your business. Events delivered by legal experts, Backhouse Jones, plus a dedicated helpline will allow you to understand these changes and plan ahead. If your business needs to get things from A to B, then visit www.atobrexit.co.uk for details of free…
Walker Logistics has eliminated the use of plastic-based void-fill materials in over 90 per cent of the orders it processes at its Berkshire-based fulfilment facility. Commonly used materials such as bubble wrap, air-filled protective cushions, and polystyrene chips have been replaced by more environmentally friendly alternatives, which Walker produces on-site by recycling its clients’ own…
EV Cargo chief executive Heath Zarin has said the business now has “the infrastructure in place” to achieve its goal of “radically transforming the logistics industry”. Zarin’s comments come after EV Cargo held its first senior management conference since merging its six constituent businesses under the same brand. Private equity investor EmergeVest merged Adjuno, Allport…
Specialist logistics developer and investor PLP (Peel Logistics Property), has bought a 17 acre development site at Smithy Wood Business Park in Sheffield from St Pauls Developments and the Norfolk Estate where it will speculatively build a 343,000 sq ft warehouse. The site was sold subject to planning and having received it, the new owner…
Allport Cargo Services is to reduce single-use plastics across its business by 2021, replacing it with sustainable alternatives, with a view to eliminating its use altogether. Allport said it was already beginning to remove 51, 000 single-use plastic seals that are used on its fleet, retrofitting vehicles with static security combination locks that generate random…
Omni-channel retailer Ted Baker saw e-commerce sales fall 1.3 per cent during in what it described as a “challenging” half-year in the sector. The retailer pointed to heightened levels of consumer uncertainty in its key markets, as well as “the well-publicised challenges that continue to face some of the group’s UK trading partners against the…
3PL Wincanton singled out its five-year deal with retailer Morrisons for the provision of transport services as a highlight ahead of its six-month interims. The company said it had secured good levels of new business in the first half of the year, and pointed to renewed contracts with existing customers adidas, Williams Sonoma and Cormar…
Trebor Developments and Hillwood have won detailed planning for a five unit speculative mid-box warehouse scheme in Haverhill, Suffolk. The developer is expecting to start construction shortly and will deliver a range of high quality, speculative, industrial units in 2020, ranging from 12,915 sq ft to 64,734 sq ft, each with secure yards and high…
Menzies Distribution has completed the sale and leaseback of eight distribution depots across its UK logistics network generating £24.65 million. The proceeds of the sale will support the company’s ambitions to grow the business exponentially following its sale from John Menzies in September 2018. Chief executive Greg Michael said: “Since our acquisition by private equity…
E-commerce and specialist distribution company The Delivery Group has taken Mountpark’s 137,865 sq ft speculative warehouse at Mountpark Warrington Omega for a specialist mail hub. James Wilkins, MD of The Delivery Group , said: “The Delivery Group handles over a billion items a year and as we continue to grow, this new distribution hub will…
Bidcorp has entered into a contract for the disposal of its Best Food Logistics business to Tesco subsidiary Booker Group. The transaction is subject to approval from the Competition and Market Authority in the UK, which is expected to take several months. Bidcorp has been exiting low margin logistics activities globally where it does not…
Dave Lewis, chief executive of Tesco, has resigned and will leave the business in the summer of 2020. Lewis joined Tesco in 2014 will be leaving the supermarket giant in 2020. He said his ”decision to step down as group CEO is a personal one. I believe that the tenure of the CEO should be…
German toy manufacturer Theo Klein has appointed Import Services as logistics partner, to provide retail supply chain services, from product sources in the Far East and Germany, to customers in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Klein Toys – which includes brands such as Barbie and Hot Wheels – searched for a retail logistics partner…
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