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Building envelope specialist, CA Group, has successfully gained one of the highest international fire safety standards available for its built-up system – marking an industry first for the roof and wall cladding manufacturer – and making its Twin-Therm® roof and wall products the most fire protective built-up building envelope system available. The company’s long-established building…
Sports Direct has taken Clearbell Property Partners’ 390,000 sq ft warehouse at Sheffield Parkway, South Yorkshire. The sports retailer has secured a five year lease and will use the property as a logistics and distribution hub for a number of its designer brands, including Jack Wills. The refurbished property is part of Clearbell’s Polaris industrial…
At the beginning of 2020 Access Group acquired Mintsoft – a software-as-a-service based order and warehouse management software firm – that started life in 2012 as a university project developed by founder Luke Groves. Access is forecasting that the warehouse order picking market will be worth £8 billion by 2025, and by adding Mintsoft to…
Technology and manufacturing businesses can now apply for government funding to develop digital supply chain technologies. The UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, led by Innovate UK, will provide funding for projects worth up to £1.5m. Projects will support the development of new digital technologies and work with manufacturers to revaluate and restructure the way…
Essex-based freight forwarder Uneek Group is to implement a warehouse management system (WMS) from Microlistics. It will initially implemented at two Uneek Group warehouse sites, covering approximately 55,000 sq ft in total. Amit Patel, general manager at Uuneek Group said: “We wanted a WMS solution that can do everything we need from day one, without…
Losses at Eddie Stobart Logistics widened to more than £200 million, despite a 9% increase in turnover, as the group published details of its financial performance during a turbulent 2019. For financial year 2019 the company made a pre-tax loss of £238.9m, compared to a pre-tax loss of £22.3 million in its restated financial year…
The July issue of Logistics Manager is out now in print, online as well as for the iPad and Android. Inside you’ll find a special report looking at healthcare and pharma supply chains, as well as a materials handling special focusing on AMRs, AGVs, reverse logistics and the latest issues affecting forklifts. Cover Story: Special report on healthcare and…
New research from Cushman & Wakefield shows that overall take-up for 2020 is expected to surpass the 10-year average of 33 million sq ft. The company said that there was a further 16 million sq ft of long-term deals under offer at the end of the second quarter, and on that basis take-up is likely…
Specialist logistics developer Tritax Symmetry is to bring forward a one million sq ft scheme in conjunction The Land Trust at the former Cronton Colliery in Knowsley, Merseyside. As well as the employment site there will also be a 65-acre country park established to provide publicly accessible open space and community facilities. The Land Trust…
Air cargo volumes in the last week of June were 12% higher than in the final week of May, as the sector showed tentative signs of recovery.According to CLIVE Data Services global air cargo volumes in June were up 6% compared to May. However global volumes were down 25% compared to June 2019, while May…
A “freshness” of approach, thinking and creativity will be required in order to win a Supply Chain Excellence Award in 2020, according to one judge and previous winner. Now r roup between 2007 and 2017 and has also served as supply chain director at Sainsbury’s as well as providing his own consultancy services. He is…
DHL has confirmed that it has pre-let SEGRO’s 694,608 sq ft mega shed at East Midlands Gateway. Logistics Manager reported that the developer had put forward proposals for the mega shed in April this year for an unnamed occupier on a 33.66 acre plot on the 6 million sq ft scheme in Leicestershire. DHL intends…
Pallet-Track has seen its one millionth pallet move through its regional hub in Greater Manchester. Pallet-Track’s 70,000 sq ft, wholly-owned Northern Hub is based in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, and has a nightly throughput average of 1,562 pallets. Pallet-Track founder and managing director Nigel Parkes said: “Coronavirus may have disrupted life across the globe, but the logistics…
Volumes at Palletforce hit an all-time high last week as the network handled over 100,000 pallets during the week, 13% higher than the same week last year. To date, some 41 million pallets have passed through the network, a division of EV Cargo, and while it saw a significant drop in volume during lockdown it…
DB Cargo UK has won a new five-year “hook and haul” contract to transport supplies of sustainable biomass to Drax. The rail freight operator will run an average of 60 trains per week from the ports of Immingham and Hull to Drax Power Station in Selby, North Yorkshire. Drax supplies 12% of the UK’s renewable…
The Delivery Group has organised a ‘Carrier Consortium’ – including express carriers such as Yodel and UPS – to support the collection of Covid-19 tests across the UK. The test collection programme is part of a study coordinated by Ipsos MORI in partnership with Imperial College London for The Department of Health and Social Care….
Consumer goods importer M H Star has snapped up developer Jaynic’s SP206 warehouse at Suffolk Park, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Moris Ye, assistant manager – UK Operations at M H Star UK, said: “Choosing to purchase this warehouse from Jaynic was an easy and straightforward decision from us at MH Star UK. With our business…
Omni-channel fashion logistics operations are looking for easy to install, modular and scalable infrastructure in order to cope with multiple demand peaks and the easing of lockdown restrictions, according to Interroll. Speaking to Logistics Manager Ben Dietrich, global sales business manager e-commerce and fashion at Interroll, said that omni-channel retailing was experiencing multiple demand peaks,…
Some 43% of supply chain practitioners are concerned about their supplier’s ability to fulfil orders, and 40% are concerned about their suppliers’ business health. A global survey of some 600 business leaders, conducted by Coupa Software, also found that 37% of financial decision makers are concerned about how quickly their company can change suppliers if…
The UK logistics market has recorded the highest quarterly take-up figures on record for Q2 2020, achieving total take-up of 12.78 million sq ft compared to 7.83 million sq ft in Q2 2019, according to the latest data from global real estate advisor, CBRE. Following a robust Q1, the total take-up for the first half…
The UK manufacturing sector showed signs of stabilising in June, following the steep slump caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the latest IHS Markit / CIPS UK Manufacturing purchasing managers index , output edged back into growth territory and manufacturing production rose slightly for the first time in four month as factories restarted, lockdown…
DSV plans to invest DKK 2 billion (£243 million) on a 7.5 million sq ft logistics centre in Denmark. as it consolidates activities from its Air & Sea, Road and Solutions divisions. DSV said it intended to consolidate its warehouse and cross-docking terminals in the Horsens area in Jutland, Denmark, to ensure increased efficiency and…
Sainsbury’s has seen its business change “fundamentally” during lockdown, with digital sales more than doubling in recent weeks. Overall grocery sales at the second largest supermarket in the UK were up 10.5%, with total retail sales up 8.5% during the three months ending 27 June. However online grocery sales grew 87% year-on-year, with orders increasing…
Matt Gregory has succeeded Isabel McCabe as managing director of Voiteq UK, from 1 July 2020. Formerly sales director, Gregory joined Voiteq in October 2017. He said of his appointment: “Voiteq was the first to introduce voice-directed work into UK warehouses, and for the past 20 years our expertise, knowledge and technology suite has evolved…
DHL Aviation has chosen Descartes’ Global Air Messaging Gateway to standardise electronic messaging with its customers. The messaging gateway will standardise electronic messaging with DHL’s global freight-forwarding organisations, other airlines, postal service operators and express courier companies, as well as ground handling agents (GHAs). DHL will also use Descartes’ Air Shipment Management (ASM) to streamline…
An ‘online giant’ has snapped up a 35,200 sq ft warehouse Network Spaces’s Element warehouse scheme at Alchemy Business Park in Knowsley. The e-commerce firm has taken a 10-year lease on the unit which it intends to use to fulfil demand form local consumers. In June 2019 Network Space completed three B2/B8 units of 22,900…
Suttons Tankers has won a three year contract with Ryse Hydrogen to supply bulk hydrogen gas to Transport for London. TfL have purchased 20 new hydrogen fuelled buses to move towards providing more sustainable methods of transportation, and carbon neutral by 2050. The new contract will begin at the end of September 2020, with phased…
While some are looking at the lifting of some Covid-19 lockdown restrictions on 4 July as Independence Day. But, as a much more gifted journalist than I put it, it is not Freedom Day, but Complexity Day. This has been seen no more so than in the on-trade. With bars, pubs, clubs, hotels and restaurants…
Rising ecommerce demands due to COVID-19 have warehouse and distribution centers facing an unusual challenge – meet rising shipping demands while adhering to social distancing guidelines. Automated Packaging can increase efficiency while alleviating labour challenges. Ensure social distancing guidelines are met with automated packaging. Automated packaging solutions reduce the risk of contamination through less handling…
APC member Transplus has opened a new operational depot in Andover, increasing its capacity by 25%. As well as increasing operational capacity, the company has also increased the number of drivers it employs by 25%. This increased space will allow the company to continue its overnight parcel collection and delivery service offerings to local businesses;…
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