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NIC, which produces ice cream ingredients, has taken a ten year lease on a 64,000 sq ft warehouse at St Modwen Park Lincoln, which it will use as its central depot. The company, which is part of Norwegian food company Orkla Foods, has expanded in recent years with the acquisition of several UK based companies…
Professor Richard Wilding of Cranfield University has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme and the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence showcase the outstanding impact of individuals and teams who teach or support learning in UK higher education. Professor Sir Peter Gregson, Cranfield’s chief executive and vice-chancellor, said: “This is richly…
Clipper Logistics has told shareholders that operating profit for the year to 30th April 2019 is expected to be £20.2 million. This is moderately below expectations, and is the result of profits from some new contracts being recognised in 2020 rather than 2019. The move will result in a corresponding uplift in profits in 2020….
The European Shippers’ Council has called on the European Union to prioritise free trade in the future. In a position paper to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade, the ESC said it wants to see a stronger focus on facilitation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and a better harmonisation of FTAs to enable their application;…
Panalpina is to slim down its executive board following the takeover by DSV. It is eliminating the positions of chief commercial officer, chief legal officer, chief information officer, executive vice president, air freight and executive vice president, ocean freight. Consequently, CCO Karl Weyeneth, CLO and corporate secretary Christoph Hess, CIO Ralf Morawietz, EVP air freight…
1. Supply chain is changing the world. The the way we live today owes much to developments in supply chain thinking and practice. It is the ability to manage an extended supply chain that has driven the growth in global trade. And it is the development of logistics and its supporting technology that has enabled…
The Road Haulage Association has welcomed reports that the government is set to cut fuel duty. The “Sunday Times” reported that fuel duty would be cut for the first time in eight years in a possible emergency budget in October. RHA chief executive Richard Burnett said: “After many years of tireless lobbying in conjunction with…
The grocery market has not expanded in the past year, according to figures for the 12 weeks to 11th August from Kantar. Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said: “The memory of last year still looms large for retailers and this summer’s comparatively poor weather, combined with low levels of like-for-like…
The global drone services market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 32.5 per cent between now and 2027, according to a study by Transparency Market Research. The report, Drone Services Market, said Europe is projected to be the second-largest market for drone services during the forecast period. The rising use of drone…
Eddie Stobart chief executive Alex Laffey has stepped down and the company has suspended trading it its shares, warning that profits are “likely to be significantly lower than anticipated”. Laffey has been replaced by Sébastien Desreumaux, who was previously chief executive of iForce and head of contract logistics. He is expected to be appointed to…
Eddie Stobart has snapped up Logicor’s 233,000 sq ft unit LOGIC233@Dagenham, which was previously let to Coca Cola in 2016 on a five-year lease a rent of around £8.25 per sq ft. Eddie Stobart has taken a 10-year lease on the building but terms are currently unavailable. Rent levels in the area suggest that there…
The world’s largest container ship, the 23,756 teu MSC Gülsün, has completed its maiden voyage from the north of China to Europe. The ship was built at the Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje shipyard in South Korea. It is the first of a new class of 23,000+ teu vessels to be added in 2019-2020 to the…
Van drivers have been fined some £1.7 million over the past three years for incorrectly parking or stopping in a loading bay, according to research by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. The research also found that almost a quarter of appeals against penalty charge notices for incorrect use of a loading bay were successful. A total of…
Li & Fung, the Hong Kong based supply chain solutions partner for brands and retailers, has reported an 18.6 per cent fall in core operating profit for the first half of 2019. It said the reduction in profit was down to a decrease in turnover and total margin in the Supply Chain Solutions business coupled…
NASA has taken the next step in its $7 billion lunar logistics plan – asking companies for proposals to deliver cargo, science experiments and supplies to the Gateway to support Artemis missions to the lunar surface. There will be to phases to the plan: speed – landing on the Moon by 2024 – and establishing…
thyssenkrupp Materials Services is investing some €70 million in modernising and expanding its European warehousing and logistics network. It is building a logistics centre and warehouses in Germany, Poland and Hungary as part of its “Materials as a Service” strategy. Some €60m will be invested in a 36,000 sq m logistics centre in Lower Saxony,…
Amazon says it has launched 150 tools and services since the beginning of the year to help SMEs grow their sales in Amazon’s stores, including fulfilment tools like Target Inventory Levels. Independent third-party sellers made up 58 per cent of all physical gross merchandise sold in Amazon’s stores in 2018. The Target Inventory Levels tool…
UPS has taken a minority stake in TuSimple, the autonomous driving company it is working with to test self-driving tractor trailers. It has been providing truckloads of goods for TuSimple to carry on a North American freight forwarding route between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. UPS contracts with third-party trucking companies during its peak shipping season….
Trade union Usdaw has called its members at Sainsbury’s Waltham Point distribution centre out on strike today (22nd August) and Sunday (25th August). The dispute over changes to the attendance policy has been going on for some time, and there have already be two one-day stoppages by Usdaw members. Nigel Scully, Usdaw divisional officer said:…
Jaguar Land Rover is planning to create a new global aftermarket parts distribution centre on a 2.94 million sq ft campus at junction 11 of the M42 near Tamworth. The site would supply 80 markets worldwide and meet Jaguar Land Rover’s long term business needs for parts distribution throughout the UK and Western Hemisphere. JLR…
AF Blakemore, the food and drinks business, has taken a pre-let on a 165,000 sq ft build to suit warehouse at Manton Lane in Bedford from Barwood Capital. The ambient, chilled and frozen warehouse is part of Blakemore’s national expansion plans. A planning application will now be submitted and AF Blakemore is due to take…
Starship Technologies has become the first autonomous delivery service to complete 100,000 commercial deliveries. The company made the announcement as it closed US$40m in Series A funding and revealed plans to expand its service to 100 university campuses around the world in the next 24 months. With the closing of this latest investment round, Starship…
German online retailer Zalando is to start construction of its first Dutch fulfilment centre at a business park near Rotterdam which will serve customers in the UK, Benelux, France and Spain. It will invest €200 million in the centre’s intralogistics. The fulfilment centre will have the highest level of automation within Zalando’s network, which currently…
Peel Ports has been received Authorised Economic Operator accreditation at its principal ports ahead of Brexit. The accredited ports are: Clydeport Operations, Port of Sheerness, The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, The Manchester Ship Canal Company, and Great Yarmouth Port Company. The accreditation recognises that a business’ customs controls and procedures are efficient and meet…
Borr Drilling, the oil and gas exploration contractor, has extended its contract with CEVA to the end of August 2020. CEVA has been working with Borr since its inception in 2016. Borr owns and operates jack-up rigs designs providing drilling services worldwide in water depths up to approximately 400 feet. “There were a number of…
St Francis Group, and development partner Richardson’s are to shortly complete the development of their 333,000 sq ft Velocity 42 scheme in Redditch. Unit 1, Kingsley House has already been let to design and manufacturing company Heartbeat leaving four further units at the scheme ranging from 55,000 sq ft to 92,500 sq ft. Gareth Williams, Director at…
Lineage, the temperature-controlled logistics provider, has expanded its UK fleet with a 41 refrigerated trailers from Schmitz Cargobull. The reefers are equipped with Carrier Transicold Vector single temperature units. The trailers join a 500-strong fleet. Head of transport Will Maycock said: “With the support we receive from the Service Partner network, we’re confident the new…
Aviva Investors has completed two lettings at Uxbridge Industrial Park, meaning the site is now fully let less than a year after completion. Together, the two deals represent approximately 171,000 sq ft of industrial and distribution warehouse space. Unit UX1, which covers 134,000 sq ft of distribution space, and UX2, a 37,000 sq ft unit,…
Failure to acknowledge the importance of those currently, or considering, working as LGV drivers is putting the future of the profession, and the UK logistics sector, at risk, the RTITB has warned. “In our work with the transport and logistics industry, we all too often hear from LGV drivers that they do not see their…
Datalogic has launched the Matrix 300N 2MP barcode reader for demanding reading applications in automotive, electronics, intralogistics and packaging lines. The new Matrix is equipped with a 2 mega-pixel resolution sensor that can read higher resolution 1D and 2D barcodes, including DPM codes, from a greater distance than previously. New features that have been developed…
