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The Logistics Manager Top 50 Service Providers is to launch on 30 November a week of webinars and analysis of the fastest-growing 3PLs in the UK. This year the Logistics Manager Top 50 Service Providers will be revealed over whole week of webinars and analysis that will showcase of how British logistics service providers are innovating to help…
Parcel carrier Hermes is to invest some £41 million in a new 340,000 sq ft mega hub in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The new hub forms the backbone of a hybrid planning application by Newlands Developments for a larger scheme, which includes a further 770,000 sq ft of distribution and storage space on a 132-acre plot…
Mezies Aviation and Qatar Airways Cargo have signed a “long term agreement” to provide cargo handling, freight aircraft handling and cargo transportation to and from aircraft at London Heathrow Airport. Qatar Airways Cargo will move into Menzies’ cargo facilities from 1 September 2020, with both parties describing the deal as part of a “joint approach”…
Logistics Manager is to host a free-to-attend webinar “Logistics Service Providers: How to Achieve Supply Chain Agility Through Digitisation” at 2pm on 23 July. At BluJay, we understand that LSPs need the ability to adapt and deliver on sophisticated requirements for multiple customers while managing cost. Imagine one platform that creates a seamless workflow and integration…
A Supply Chain Excellence Award winner, and judge for the 2020 ceremony, has called on supply chain professionals to ‘bring their supply chain excellence story to life’ and enter the Supply Chain Excellence Awards this year. The call comes from George Munjas, supply chain director at Graze. In winning a Supply Chain Excellence Award last year,…
Xpediator has said that its transportation volumes are moving back towards pre-Covid-19 levels, with trading in the first three months was slightly up on a like for like basis with a steady recovery since April. It a statement to investors it said that trading for the first six months of the year had been assisted by…
Hermes UK is to spend £100m expanding its warehousing capacity, as well as recruiting 10,500 new employees, to deal with the demand for e-commerce created by lockdown. The Yorkshire-based parcels specialist has already spent some £30 million so far this year, opening an additional 90 new sub depots as well as acquiring vehicles and customer…
C.H. Robinson has signed a deal with Microsoft to further digitise its supply chain, utilising cloud and Internet of Things technology. As part of the deal C.H. Robinson will integrate its multimodal transportation management platform Navisphere with Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and IoT device monitoring. Chris O’Brien, chief commercial officer at C.H. Robinson, said: “The…
James and James Fulfilment has expanded its returns service for independent e-commerce retailers. Through the expanded service, retailers can choose to provide prepaid postage, meaning consumers can print a returns shipping label at home or receive a QR code to take to a Post Office or Royal Mail Customer Service Point, totalling some 12,500 locations UK-wide….
Having a robust visibility plan can help to fix problems, or even mitigate risk entirely. Visibility can also provide insight into storage, inventor, and how trends are shaping consumer buying habits. Michelle Mooney examines why clear supply chain visibility has never been more needed. Supply chain visibility doesn’t just mean understanding what a product is,…
Logistics and supply chain is over a decade behind other industries, and needs to get “ahead of the curve” in order to compete with sector disruptors like Amazon, according the co-founder of 7bridges, an artificial intelligence-based software provider for supply chains. Speaking to Logistics Manager Phil Ashton, chief executive at 7bridges, said: “The whole of…
Greatline Developments and Mulberry Developments have won planning consent for a 4.35 million sq ft Mulberry Park Corby scheme in Northamptonshire. There had been concern that approval could have been withheld on the 200-acre scheme at Cowthick Plantation, Stamford Road, Stanion as it had been recommended for refusal by neighbouring East Northampton Council which was…
With stores closed and consumers in lockdown, e-commerce alone has not been able to relieve the pressure on the high-turnover world of fashion. Can supply chains adjust to life without the latest on-trend items? Christopher Walton investigates. As retail around the world faced up to the fact that customers were just not going to come…
XPO Logistics has been selected by Greene King to manage a warehousing and distribution centre for the pub chain’s secondary drinks channel. XPO will provide logistics services from five warehouses distributing to retail pubs and restaurants, including Pub Partner independent licensees and on-trade trade customers. XPO said its dedicated sites in Northampton, Tilbury, Avonmouth and…
Automotive logistics specialist G.B. Agencies (GBA) said it is anticipating a five-fold increase in customs declarations for its customers after the end of the Brexit transition period on 1 January 2021. On Monday the Cabinet Office said that from 1 January 2021 importers and exporters would have to complete UK and EU customs declarations after the…
International distribution and services company Bunzl has pre-let a 230,000 sq ft warehouse at SEGRO’s 70-acre SEGRO Park Kettering Gateway in the East Midlands. Bunzl Retail Division is establishing a new operation the site in order to continue to consolidate its warehouse footprint and improve the quality of its operations. The new warehouse will provide…
Tungsten Properties has paid £7.5 million for a plot at Lyncastle Road, Appleton Thorn Trading Estate in Warrington from Travis Perkins in Warrington. Funded by British Airways Pension Trustees, the 11.03 acres site could accommodate a new logistics warehouse. A planning application is being prepared by Pegasus Group. Subject to planning, Tungsten Properties will redevelop…
Herbs and spices company The Bart Ingredients Co has taken a 139,061 sq ft speculatively developed logistics warehouse at Barwood Capital’s Junction One, Central Park as its new headquarters and distribution centre. Bart, part of German food giant Fuchs Group, has taken a 15 year lease on the property where it will consolidate its three…
Sales at ASOS increased 10% in the four months ending 30 June, despite the online fashion giant stifled demand and adjusted warehousing throughput in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Group sales at ASOS for the four-month period were up 10% to £1.01 billion, while for the ten months ending 30 June sales were up…
Air cargo carrier Virgin Atlantic has secured a £1.2 billion rescue package, comprising of refinancing, loans and company-wide cost savings, as it looks to rebuild its business and re-commence flights on 20 July. Virgin said that flying fell by 98% in the second quarter of the year, and since the introduction of lockdown the airline…
Ocado has said that customers will not be going back to pre-Covid-19 shopping behaviours and the sector should expect to see the continued growth of online grocery retail. The comments come after Ocado posted a 27.2% year-on-year increase in retail revenue in the UK during the first half of 2020, with sales topping £1 billion….
The Pallet Network (TPN) has introduced a recycling scheme for members for the return of end-of-life pallets and other waste wood to its hub in Minworth. The consolidated wood waste is then taken away to be processed into raw material for chipboard production and for use in carbon-neutral power stations. Mark Duggan, managing director at…
Ice-cream company Froneri, the force behind brands including Häagen-Dazs and Nuii, is investing £750,000 on a 10,000 sq ft extension at one of its Skelmersdale warehouses Leeds-based Castlehouse Construction has been appointed to complete the project which will see the Froneri double the industrial unit size on its Lancashire site to support continued business growth. The…
Logistics Manager and Honeywell examine the warehousing challenges in the new, post-Covid-19 world, in this exclusive and free-to-watch webinar. Since the UK entered lockdown in March, consumer buying habits have shifted significantly, most notably towards online fulfilment models. And, even though restrictions are slowly being lifted, that trend is here to stay. As a result,…
DX Group said it has returned to pre-tax profitability as its post-Covid-19 volumes continued to rise, boosted by an increase in B2C volumes. The express courier had previously reported a return to operating profit in September of last year, but turnover had rebounded despite the impact of Covid-19. DX said its £10 million capital investment…
Chancerygate and Hines has been granted planning permission to speculatively develop a new 100,000 sq ft mid-box warehouse scheme in Tonbridge, Kent. Called Tonbridge Trade Park, the industrial and trade counter scheme will comprise 15 high-quality units ranging from 4,000 sq ft to 15,000 sq ft and has a gross development value of around £20m….
As if business wasn’t getting any easier (and GDP fell 19.1% in the three months to May 2020 according to the ONS) the shadow of a no-deal Brexit is looming large. And while the logistics sector doesn’t necessarily wish to poke the bear of government right now, the tone of its lobbying is getting a…
The FTA is calling on the UK government to continue pursuing a deal with the EU as an “urgent priority”, despite the government issuing wide-ranging advice for border documentation following the end of the transition period. Yesterday the Cabinet Office said that from 1 January 2021 importers and exporters would have to complete UK and…
Industrial developer Panattoni is speculatively developing AEW’s Wakefield515 in West Yorkshire. The building is set to be the largest speculative warehouse under construction in the North of the UK this year and signifies one of the sectors’ largest commitments since the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. The unit is anticipated to be ready for occupation…
Global real estate advisor CBRE has warned that there is likely to be a significant shortening and integration of supply chains, increasing the demand for warehouse space. In its report ‘The Changing Flow of International Trade’ CBRE advises investors that retailers and wholesalers are set to store months’ rather than weeks’ worth of inventory closer to…
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