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DHL Supply Chain has renewed its contract with Jaguar Land Rover, with an an extended brief to manage the in-bound supply chain for the company’s new manufacturing site in Slovakia. The two parties have worked together for ten years, and the extension takes it forward for a further five years. During this period both parties…
Planning has been given to two new warehouse units totalling more than 100,000 sq ft of space in North Wales. Flintshire Council has given the go ahead for 102,967 sq ft of new business space at Zone 2 on Deeside Industrial Estate. Planning consultants, Indigo Planning and architects, Fletcher Rae, have worked on the successful…
Developer Tungsten Properties has paid £1.425 million for a 2.2 acre site at Eastways in Witham, Essex from Aryan Holdings. The developer has secured planning for three units totalling 45,000 sq ft ranging between 11,000 – 45,000 sq ft. Fortwell Capital will provide funding, which will allow the units to be available on a pre-let/sale…
A brick built warehouse in Poundbury, Dorset, has been put up for sale by the Duchy of Cornwall’s estate for £2.5m. A 41,940 sq ft industrial unit in Dorset is being sold vacant after the former occupant expanded and relocated to a larger workspace in Poole. The building has 30,741 sq ft of industrial accommodation…
Hermes Investment Managers have secured planning for a new urban warehouse on the site of a major Jaguar Land Rover car park in Birmingham. Birmingham council approved plans for the 2.7-acre site off Chester Road at Erdington Industrial Park last week. The 37,932 sq ft warehouse and 4,000 sq ft of office space will have…
Express parcels carrier Yodel and freight forwarder DG International have launched a global outbound service for UK retailers. The new international service has been developed to provide a more efficient home delivery service to more than 200 countries for parcels of up to 30kg. Yodel can now offer flexible overseas road, and air shipping solutions,…
P&O Ferrymasters is to offer customs declaration services to its customers after it signed a strategic partnership with customs service provider SGS Maco. SGS Maco will work with P&O to help its customers making customs declarations at ports in the Netherlands and Belgium – as well as offering fiscal representation services for companies transporting goods…
PrettyLittleThing has relocated to a new 600,000 sq ft warehouse in Sheffield, where it has installed a sortation system from BS Handling Systems. The sortation project for the online retailer saw the installation of a custom pink 60 metre powered belt conveyor with two 180 degree bends, and 6 x 22 metre long conveyor feeder…
Sometimes, when you’re wondering from stand to stand in the light of the halls in the NEC in Birmingham it is easy to forget that there is life beyond its four walls. Sometimes you pop on a stand and amid all the hoopla; branded workwear and impeccably shiny exhibits it is hard to place the…
Temperature-controlled 3PL Fowler Welch has switched to Transdek to increase its loading efficiency, and reduce vehicle turnaround times at its Washington distribution centre. Fowler Welch’s 59,200 sq ft hub in Tyne and Wear provides a relaxed consolidation facility and pick-to-order service for a major retailer, as well as straight-to-store orders for the convenience sector. The…
AV presentation products manufacturer Sahara Presentation Systems has signed a five-year contract with Europa Warehouse, part of Europa Worldwide Group. The deal extends the 15-year partnership between the two parties until 2024. Europa handles Sahara’s inbound logistics from across Europe and Asia, as well as domestic distribution. Sahara operates from Europa’s Dartford warehouse which has a…
As UK customer delivery costs continue to rise, exacerbated by the Brexit uncertainty for hauliers operating cross-border, knowing you are getting the best value for money from your palletised transport providers is becoming critical. The Gold Standard Index™ is a proven benchmarking tool, trusted by leading FMCG suppliers, that compares how a customer’s current solution…
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has awarded CEVA Logistics a five year contract to manage warehousing and deliveries for the largest hospital inventory system in Europe. The two parties have created a new multi-purpose delivery centre in Dartford, Kent, to run what it describes as an urban consolidation model. As a result it…
Developer investor SEGRO is to speculatively develop a 108,000 sq ft five unit warehouse scheme at its SEGRO Park Rainham development due to “the strong and growing demand for industrial space in East London”. Alan Holland of SEGRO, said: “The leasing success to date, coupled with the growing interest for space in this prime location,…
Mail and parcels specialist Whistl is is to trial an electric Renault Master ZE van on its fleet operations in Northern Ireland, the first vehicle of its kind to be licenced on UK roads. The all electric 3.1 tonne van has a range of approximately 100 miles and is being trialled in Belfast on day-to-day…
FDS Corporation, Magnus Group and GMA Warehousing & Transport have all taken warehouse space in Ipswich. Chinese online specialist FDS Corporation has pre-let a 144,000 sq ft at Curzon De Vere’s Port One logistics park situated off Junction 52 of the A14 at Great Blakenham. Construction is due to complete in Q3 2020. Subsequently Kennedy…
Freight forwarder International Forwarding has opened a 2,000m² secure storage facility neighbouring its existing offices and hub in Coleshill, Birmingham. The company said that the expansion was necessary as several existing customers required additional warehousing to protect their supply chains against Brexit. MD Rob Pike said: “We’re really excited about the new opportunities this expansion…
Unipart Group chairman John Neill CBE has warned that the risk Brexit poses to supply chains developed over decades “cannot be understated”. Neill’s warning came in his chairman’s statement, filed to Companies House in the Unipart Group of Companies annual report. He said that 2018 had been a tough year for the UK economy in…
The Greater London Authority has raised clean air and climate change issues over the plans for Gazeley’s innovative multi-storey warehouse in London. The proposed redevelopment of a six-acre plot in Peruvian Wharf, Silvertown, would see a three-storey 426,000 sq ft inner city last-mile logistics hub for London, the first of its kind in the UK,…
Ernst Schulze (pictured) has taken over from Chris Lewis as chief executive at DP World UK, with Lewis retiring after 36 years in the ports industry. Schulze will oversee the Southampton and London Gateway container terminals, the Logistics Park at London Gateway and Community Network Services (CNS), which provides customs clearance and digital logistics services….
The British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) and Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) have agreed to explore plans for a potential merger. No timelines have yet been set and both associations said they would make appropriate announcements as the merger process proceeds. James Clark, secretary general at BITA, said: “Although we are still at the discussion…
Freight management services provider Xpediator saw its pre-tax profit drop 23 per cent in the first half of 2019 after it had to make a number of measures to address its profitability. Turnover for the six-months ending 30 June rose 29.8 per cent year-on-year to £102.4 million (H1 2018: £78.9 million), of which Xpediator put…
SOP International, a specialist importer and distributor of Asian and Oriental foods, has taken a 69,872 sq ft warehouse at Stoford Developments and TPG Real Estate’ joint venture Icon Industrial’s Icon Harlow scheme in Essex. Work on the highly specified building, which contains 59,909 sq ft of warehouse accommodation and two-storey Grade A offices of 9,963 sq ft,…
DHL’s latest last-mile parcel delivery and urban logistics centre at SEGRO Park Newham, which has just completed, is set to be carbon neutral. DHL has taken a lease of a new 51,474 sq ft facility which helps enable the company to grow and enhance its services in East London. The scheme incorporates several sustainability features…
A.P. Moller – Maersk is to deploy cloud-based JDA Warehouse Management as part of its digital transformation strategy – an extension of its end-to-end container logistics service with the software provider. Maersk will initially deploy JDA Warehouse Management in Europe (Gothenburg) and the U.S. (Newark and Santa Fe) later this year and will use these…
DHL Express has put 10 new electric-powered Renault ZE Masters vans on the road in London in the first stage of its plan to run 400 electric vehicles on its UK-wide fleet by 2025. The vehicles have a range of approximately 75 miles and a payload capacity of circa 10 cubic metres. They are fully…
ASOS has extended its ten-year partnership with DPD by awarding the parcel carrier a five-year, multi-million-pound contract to supply delivery services to across the UK until “at least” September 2024. The contract includes a provision for at least 50 per cent of deliveries within the London Ultra Low Emission Zone to be served by electric…
Such is the demand for urban/mid box warehousing that investors are snapping them up without having a tenant in line. Small local investor Dutytown has bought a speculatively built warehouse at Aston41 on Aesop Business Park in Aston Clinton, Aylesbury that is currently vacant. W Lamb Ltd sold the freehold of Unit 5 on Phase…
Tritax Symmetry has signed a 12 year Option, subject to planning, on a 184 acre site at South Elmsall near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, which could provide up to three million sq ft of warehousing space. The site, which sits within the greenbelt, has been under review as part of initial draft consultation of Wakefield…
Property developer and investor Gazeley has bought Tritax Symmetry’s 220-acre plot of land to the south of Magna Park Lutterworth allowing it to create what is considered the largest dedicated logistics park in Europe in one ownership. A spokesperson for Gazeley said: “Following the receipt of outline planning permissions for up to 7.5 million square…
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