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Palletline Logistics has acquired pallet distribution and warehousing company Ningbo Palletised Distribution. Under its new ownership, the business will operate as Ningbo Wrexham and Ningbo London which between them employ 120 employees and operate 70 vehicles. The company’s main focus lies in palletised distribution, walking floor bulk distribution, storage and warehousing, pick and pack, contract…
Intralogistics company Fortna will be exhibiting at IntraLogisteX the UK’S best warehousing show. The company will be exhibiting on stand 606, and the EMEA team of the consulting, engineering services, and software company will provide information about its comprehensive portfolio of services: Fortna designs and delivers intelligent solutions powered by FortnaWES software to optimise fast,…
Trebor Developments and Seddon Developments have sold their Prime Point 14 speculative development to Aver Property Limited Partnership. The two units which are 66,628ft2 and 76,742ft2 respectively, will be constructed during 2022 by Seddon Construction Limited and provide a BREEAM rating of “Very Good” and an EPC “A”. The units will be available for rent…
The Very Group, which operates digital retailer Very.co.uk, has announced plans to transform the technology behind its e-commerce platform to “significantly improve customer experience”. The move is one of the first in a series of investments in technology and talent Very will make in 2022 to create the best possible conditions to further improve its…
Renewable biomethane provider, CNG Fuels, yesterday opened what it claims is the ‘world’s largest public access biomethane refuelling station’ in Avonmouth, near Bristol. The site will meet the growing demand from major brands to cut emissions from haulage and save money, while also supporting the decarbonisation of the UK’s road haulage sector, responsible for 18%…
GS Yuasa Battery Sales UK Ltd (GYSUK) has announced that construction has started on a new headquarters and distribution centre. Work commenced on the 178,500ft2 purpose-built facility, situated in Dorcan, Swindon, at a ground-breaking ceremony. Following sustained growth over the past decade, GS Yuasa has outgrown the sites it currently operates from in the Swindon…
Australian supermarket giant, Coles, is to offer drone delivery for more than 250 of its most popular grocery items, the company has announced. Partnering with global on-demand drone delivery service, Wing, customers in Canberra will be the first to pilot this exciting new technology, with delivery in minutes. The drone delivery pilot will offer a selected…
IntraLogisteX exhibitor and AMR specialist Geek+, alongside Engero, have deployed a fleet of Geek+’s moving robots to create a smart, unmanned cold chain port warehouse in the Chinese port of Tianjin. As a result, the warehouse has seen improvements of 35% in storage, 42% in handling efficiency, and up to 99.99% in handling accuracy. Due…
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is surveying its entire membership to ascertain their views on the current practices undertaken by container shipping lines, as well as their opinions on the easements and exemptions provided to those lines under competition law. BIFA Director General, Robert Keen, says that over the past several months, the Secretariat…
Property developer, Stoford, has announced a new site-wide agreement with the Church Commissioners for England for an additional 500,000ft2 of logistics and industrial space at Exeter Logistics Park, Clyst Honiton in East Devon. Stoford will develop the scheme on a design-and-build basis, with new units made available on freehold or leasehold terms. Stoford has already…
Aver, a joint venture between NFU Mutual and Ergo Real Estate, has agreed to fund Cole Waterhouse and Peveril Securities’ 330,000ft2 Novus Point development in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Outline planning for the warehouse to be built on the 15-acre former Stoke Speedway site at Lymedale Business Park, was granted in July 2020. Construction could start this…
Real-estate investment manager Barings is seeking to develop a 381,000ft2 logistics hub in London with joint venture partner, developer HBD. A detailed planning application has been submitted to develop a strategic logistics scheme in Rainham, London, which will transform a 20.5-acre brownfield site acquired by HBD and Barings last year. The new development, Momentum London,…
DIY Retailer B&Q has secured a 430,000ft2 mega warehouse at Tritax Symmetry’s 721,000ft2 Symmetry Park Doncaster scheme in South Yorkshire. The company has secured a 15-year lease on the bespoke building, which will become a seasonal warehouse and distribution centre. The facility will be built to net zero carbon in construction, in line with Tritax…
Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has announced that it has deployed 5G technology and the Internet of Things (IoT). The Port of Felixstowe along with consortium members, Three UK, Blue Mesh Solutions and the University of Cambridge, was successful in an application for grant funding under the 5G Testbeds and Trials programme run by the…
Despite a government ban on Russian cargo ships coming to the UK, a loophole in the new legislation means Russian gas and oil could still arrive at UK ports. Trade union Unison has said that the loophole means that two tankers; Boris Vilkitsky and Fedor Litke are bound for Grain LNG, with plans to unload…
Works on a new £12 million facility to extend and enhance Co-op’s Newhouse distribution centre is underway as the convenience retailer commits to ensuring it has the right logistic and supply facilities in place to continue to deliver improved service and support to its communities now, and in the future. The new distribution facility – which…
Goods worth £17 billion worth of Russian exports to the UK are set to be disrupted amid the travesty happening in Ukraine. According to analysts from data and analytics company Russell Group, a ‘significant amount’ of the £17 billion Russia-UK trade is in precious stones and jewellery (£14 billion). Some of the value is in…
Cross-border e-commerce delivery solutions provider APG has today announced its partnership with global addressing company what3words. APG’s UK retailer partners can now offer their customers delivery to an exact what3words address through a what3words-enabled logistics provider, such as Aramex in the Middle East. APG has established a presence in major trade lanes across the globe,…
Firethorn trust has sold its UK logistics assets for £550 million to private investment firm Cain International. The Grade A logistics portfolio comprises seven UK sites, which total 3.25 million ft2 across 22 assets, including two newly built developments, and five consented land sites that are set to be complete by in 2022 and H1…
With hundreds of staff spread over a large warehouse, coordinating, motivating and communicating with your workforce can be challenging. Yet without those actions, it is likely your logistics operation is losing efficiency which will affect business performance. Chosen by Amazon and DPD, Bodet’s IP Harmonys System is an all-in-one Audio Alert & PA System designed…
Technology provider SnapFulfil has partnered with knitting yarn company The DMC Group, to implement its cloud-based warehouse management system. The DMC Group distributes all Sirdar, Rowan, Wool, and the Gang, including Tilsatec products, and has moved to optimise inventory and distribution efficiencies at its 180,000ft2 DC in Wakefield. SnapFulfil was chosen because it optimises the…
Canmoor is set to welcome the Steder Group as the latest new occupier at Westway Park in Renfrew, Scotland. The global logistics service provider has signed up for 60,000ft2 of logistics space at the newly refurbished Block D on a 10-year lease. The Scottish & Dutch-owned company, which is headquartered in Hillington, Glasgow and in…
Sparck Technologies, the new name for Packaging by Quadient, has hit a major milestone with 100 million boxes produced on its fit-to-size packaging machines worldwide. As Sparck’s advanced CVP Everest and CVP Impack packaging systems make each cardboard box to the exact size required for every particular order, the company calculates that some 34,250,000m2 of…
Investor and developer GLP has bought a 9.18-acre redevelopment site in Trafford Park, Manchester. Currently occupied by manufacturer Tenmat, the site will be redeveloped when Tenmat relocates to Irlam at the end of this year. GLP Development Director Adrienne Howells, said: “This is an attractive site in one of the largest, most well-connected logistics parks…
Industrial real estate developer Panattoni has signed its third pre-let at its 1.9 million ft2 logistics development in Kent following pre-lets to DHL and logistics firm Fowler Welch. Parcel delivery company Hermes has secured a 15-year lease on a 78,794ft2 net carbon zero facility, which it will use as to handle more than 220,000 parcels…
The 155,000ft2 ‘sustainable’ warehouse targets operational ‘net zero carbon’ office space. St. Modwen Logistics has boosted the regeneration of Longbridge with a further £20m investment to build the 155,000ft2 warehouse which could create more than 300 jobs. The development is located at The Cofton Centre and is set to be completed in October 2022. The…
Final Destination Logistics DP World is launching a new rail service between Upper Rhine region and the Port of Rotterdam. The new service enhances the company’s already expansive network across European inland network. The new service which will begin operations on 14 March 2022, connects Rotterdam with two roundtrips per week with calls in Germersheim…
Miller Developments has submitted plans for a second big shed at its 2.2 million ft2 Omega West scheme in the North West with another application due later this year. Both units already have occupiers and will be built-to-suit. The first of the two proposed facilities for which an application has been submitted this week, will…
Real estate investor Fortwell Capital, is forward funding developer Jaynic’s 160,000ft2 speculative warehouse at its 2 million ft2 Suffolk Park scheme near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia, to the tune of £13.8 million. Jaynic is Fortwell’s fifth borrower in the industrial/logistics space sector, with the single unit at Suffolk Park the largest that the…
eCommerce has seen unprecedented growth during the pandemic, as consumers and businesses increasingly went digital. The surge in online sales also brought a matching swell in intralogistics and warehouse operations. What’s more, crises of labour shortage and warehouse space in the UK have made many companies realise that if they want to improve the customer…
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