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Amazon is opening a new delivery station in Northern Ireland to meet a jump in demand. The 9,500 sq ft warehouse is located at Channel Commercial Park in Titanic Quarter, Belfast and is expected to bring 15 new jobs. The company runs a fulfilment centre close-by but the new delivery station was required to deal…
Northamptonshire-based Fortec member Linkline Transport is to expand into home delivery and is using Mandata’s cloud-based Transport Management System (TMS) to support its operations. Linkline will combine general loads with individual parcels and drivers will react to ongoing route changes and new jobs via PDAs. Tom Ball, general manager at Linkline, said: “Coronavirus has triggered…
The FTA has called for an implementation period for whatever Brexit agreement the government reaches in Brexit negotiations – so logistics and supply chain can “prepare effectively”. With less that seven months to go until the end of the Brexit transition period the association also said that the government must consider how the Northern Ireland…
Europa Worldwide Group division Europa Warehouse has said that its £60m warehouse in Corby, Northamptonshire will open on schedule, despite the impact of Covid-19. Linde Material Handling UK started working on the project with Europa in August 2019 and has supplied 78 miles of pallet racking space – with an overall capacity of 97,000 locations…
Take-home grocery sales rose by 14.3% in the 12 weeks to 17 May, the fastest rate since records began according to data from Kantar. Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said: “The most recent three-month period now includes both the pre-lockdown rush to the shops in March, and eight weeks of…
Caddick Developments has won planning permission for the second phase of its Moor Park 25 scheme in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. The five-unit second phase will total 180,000 sq ft with units ranging from 19,000 – 59,000 sq ft. Two of the Phase 2 buildings currently have occupier interest. Moor Park 25 is a 15.4 acre new…
Developer investor Peel L&P’s £10 million proposal for major improvements to Junction 23 of the M6 will pave the way to opening up its 1.8 million sq ft Haydock Point scheme in St Helens by 2021. PLP confirmed the route and funding to the council as part of the overall terms and conditions required for…
Meal box firm Gousto has extended its contract with Yodel . The new agreement will see Yodel distribute at least 3 million recipe boxes per year. Yodel said that during lockdown it had made some 20,000 food deliveries a week. According to Kantar online sales accounted for 11.5% of all grocery in the 12 weeks…
Amazon has reportedly paid in the region of £65 million for a residential site in Greater London. The 95,000 sq ft former Pentavia Retail Park in Mill Hill, Barnet had secured planning permission for more than 800 homes last year from London Mayor Sadiq Khan, despite the residential scheme being turned down by Barnet Council….
May saw a small recovery of air cargo volumes, however, a fall in demand over the last two weeks of the month means the market still ‘remains erratic’ according to Clive Data Services. The research firm said that it had seen a slight deterioration in demand for air cargo in May despite a “small recovery”…
A campaign group comprising of some 35 UK manufacturers have called for an “aggressive” reshoring of supply chains in the UK in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. UK Manufacturing Unite includes members such as Hutchinson Engineering, MJ Allen Group and Zeal Electronics and is calling for collaboration among manufacturers to to ‘build economic stability…
DSV Panalpina has said it wants to “lead the way in logistics” when it comes to sustainability. DSV Panalpina has committed to reducing absolute GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions from its offices, warehouses, and company cars by 40% by 2030 from a 2019 base year, and the company has also committed to reducing absolute GHG emissions…
Culina Group division Great Bear Distribution has taken Tritax Symmetry and British Airways Pension Fund’s speculatively developed 334,760 sq ft logistics facility at Central M40 in Banbury. The 3PL has agreed a 15-year lease and will be taking immediate occupation of the building, which is prominently located on the M40. Constructed by A&H, the high-quality…
Karen Reddington has been appointed as regional president of FedEx Europe and chief executive of TNT. Redington has been with Fedex for 23 years and was most recently regional president for Asia Pacifi. She succeeds Bert Nappier, who was regional president and chief executive for the past two years. He moves to the role of…
UK manufacturing continued to suffer under lockdown restrictions and global supply chain disruptions, but the rate of contraction eased compared to April. However, according to IHS/CIPS data for May, the sector remains at depths unseen outside of the current pandemic and the global financial crisis of 2008-09. In its monthly index of manufacturing purchasing, IHS/CIPS…
Mid-box industrial and warehouse developer Tungsten Properties has paid £7.07 million for a development site in Cleckheaton near Bradford in West Yorkshire. The 10.4-acre site, at Interchange 26, was bought from Opus North with funding from British Airways Pension Trustees. Enabling works for the site are currently being carried out by Opus North to provide…
UK’s largest tile specialist Topps Tiles has agreed the sale and leaseback of its head office and central warehouse buildings at Grove Park, Enderby, Leicester, to UK Warehouse Properties. The sale for £18.1 million, which is expected to take place in early June 2020 represents a premium of approximately 29.3% to the balance sheet asset…
A majority of UK businesses are looking at international expansion after the impact of Covid-19 and Brexit exposed reliances on domestic trade, according to a study by cross-border shipping specialist One World Express The study of more than 924 senior decision makers in a cross-section of UK businesses found that 57% were considering expansion into…
Hörmann has been awarded a two year contract to provide nearly 1,000 loading bays to developer Panattoni. Panattoni awarded contract to Hörmann UK after a two year period during which it supplied over 440 loading bays to new developments across the UK between 2018 and 2019. Over the last two years, Panattoni has delivered over…
On 1 January 2021 the transition period for the UK leaving the European Union will end, and with negotiations taking place virtually this year, business leaders in logistics and supply chain are planning for uncertainty. To guide you through the coming months, Logistics Manager will host a webinar on Tuesday 9 June at 10.30am, to…
Much to my own personal disappointment I found myself recently drawn into a social media spat regarding politics. Yes… I know. I shouldn’t have done it. I was disappointed in myself and should have risen above it, but sometimes you see something that just pushes your buttons. In this case it was on LinkedIn, the…
Clipper Logistics saw its EBITA profit rise 19% year-on-year despite the impact of lockdown on the final five weeks of its financial year. In a statement to investors Clipper said that it had traded well throughout its financial year ending 30 April which would result in an EBITA of approximately £24 million. Executive chairman Steve…
Express courier DX is pressing ahead with capital investments in its DX Express division despite the challenges presented by the coronavirus crisis. DX Express has completed the rollout of over 1,100 new driver handheld devices across its network of 31 service centres across the UK. Simon Harper, operations director at DX Express, said: “The rollout…
More than half a dozen investors are looking to forward fund a logistics scheme that has just won planning permission in Staffordshire. Novus Point is the name of the scheme on the former speedway track in Newcastle-under-Lyme, which is being promoted by investment and development company Cole Waterhouse, working with funding partner Peveril Securities. Logistics…
Primark is believed to be looking for up to 400,000 sq ft of warehouse space on a short term basis to store excess stock owing to lockdown. At the start of the re-opening of stores the fashion retailer, which does not have an ecommerce channel, had £1.5 billion of stock on hand, and had also…
From system design, receiving, order picking and consolidation to shipping, we can help you accelerate your transition from DC Now to DC Next. Preparing for the future will mean increased integration of warehouse automation software, labor-enablement and management technologies and robotics. But this is not a journey your business needs to take alone. We are…
Kuehne+Nagel has secured a lease extension to 2030 with landlord Aberdeen Standard Investments’ AIPUT fund (Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) at its 208,000 sq ft Heathrow South Cargo Centre warehouse at Heathrow Airport. The lease extension secures the site’s pivotal role as a nationally-important facility for the movement and storage of imported/exported pharmaceuticals and other…
Central Logistics Solutions (CLS) has signed a deal with The Pallet Network (TPN) to cover Leicester postcodes for the network. CLS which includes Amazon, Network Rail, Travis Perkins, Toyota and BMW as customers, said that its directors did “exhaustive research” to find the pallet network to join. John Musumeci, director at CLS, said: “We narrowed…
Supply chain resilience and agility will be the biggest priority in the next 12 month for almost half (48%) of senior supply chain professionals, according to the latest research from IDC. Beyond resilience the next top priorities were operational efficiency (46%) and improving product compliance, quality, safety or environmental sustainability (44%) . In a study…
Dart Group has sold its temperature-controlled logistics division Fowler Welch to Culina Group for £98 million. Dart Group said that the sale would enable Fowler Welch to “continue to flourish and grow profitably under new ownership” allowing it to focus on its Jet2 leisure travel business. The sale includes Fowler Welch’s 50% share in fruit…
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