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Newlands Developments and private investment partner Equites are submitting plans for a 4.6 million ft2 extension to its Peterborough Gateway scheme at Junction 17 of the A1. Planning for the new site, known as A1 West, is expected in the Spring with construction expected before the end of 2022. The hybrid application includes details proposals…
Building resilient supply chains is business critical for pharmaceutical companies. The Covid-19 vaccine rollout was just one example of why: supply chain disruptions can have an impact on human health. How do pharmaceutical companies achieve and manage resilient, future-proof supply chains? Alpega TMS has released a new ebook entitled, ‘Future-proofing the pharmaceutical supply chain’ to…
Ahead of the 25th Supply Chain Excellence Awards, LogisticsManager.com caught up with British Corner Shop, nominee in four different categories at the 2021 Awards. Taking place on 8th November at the Hilton on Park Lane in London, the Supply Chain Excellence Awards are set to be a night of celebration, as the best in the logistics industry…
Berkshire Grey has announced the launch of its AI-powered robotic shuttle product sortation, (RSPS) solution for retail, grocery, and 3PL order processing. The RSPS allows for store replenishment, split-case cross docking, allocation order processing, and e-commerce fulfilment. By automating order sortation and packing. The system supports filling e-commerce orders through stores and in-person shopping by…
Drawing on the agility and expert best practices embedded within Unipart’s approach – known as the ‘Unipart Way’ – NHS Supply Chain has ensured the needs of NHS trusts, frontline workers and patients have been prioritised. As a key service provider to the NHS Supply Chain, Unipart Logistics has risen to the challenge of protecting…
With COP26 now well under way, the rail industry’s ‘We Mean Green’ campaign aims to highlight how moving more goods by rail could help combat climate change. Every 24 hours, more than 8,000 tonnes of food, products and other essentials pass over the England-Scotland border at Gretna in freight trains – the greenest way of…
Schmitz Cargobull, a European manufacturer of semi-trailers, has revealed its first new product from its UK plant as the S.KO PACE SMART – a fully modular dry-freight semi-trailer designed for UK and Irish operators with market-specific features. “The launch of the S.KO PACE SMART is an important development for the dry freight market in the…
Pallet pool provider IPP has pledged to play its part in preventing empty running by launching an educational campaign targeting UK hauliers, retailers and the entire supply chain within the FMCG markets. The campaign, ‘It’s What’s Inside That Matters’, has been developed alongside the many other collaborative solutions IPP offers, but focuses on empty running….
Peel Ports Group has committed to becoming a net zero port operator by 2040, 10 years ahead of the UK government’s national decarbonising targets. The leading port operator, headquartered in Liverpool, owns some of the UK’s largest and most important ports including the Port of Liverpool, Clydeport and London Medway, and is the first major…
Retailer ASOS has opened a new 437,000ft2 warehouse in Lichfield, Staffordshire. The £90 million fulfilment centre will serve customers in the UK, as well as in more than 150 countries globally. The facility in Fradley Park which will be managed by GXO, will employ 2,000 people over the next three years, and has thus far recruited…
Member associations of the IRU, the world road transport organisation, have voted for an emergency call to governments on dealing with current global supply chain disruptions. IRU’s Goods Transport Council, representing more than three million logistics operators globally, unanimously backed the call on governments to accelerate digital trade tools, stop misguided Covid restrictions, act to…
Ahead of the 25th Supply Chain Excellence Awards, LogisticsManager.com caught up with Foods Connected and OSI, nominee in the Unipart Logistics Sustainability Award and the Kinaxia Logistics Award for Food and Drink categories. Taking place next Monday night at the Hilton on Park Lane in London, the Supply Chain Excellence Awards are set to be a night of celebration,…
Never before has logistics been more critical. Yet outdated perceptions persist to the detriment of progress. Liza Helps reports Blot on the landscape. Monstrosity. Horrific. Oppressive. Troubling. Unsightly. Totally inappropriate. Just some of the words used to describe logistics warehousing in the UK. In itself, this is not anything to cause undue anxiety – these…
The Cold Chain Federation has urged the Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng to prioritise cold storage operators in any plans to protect UK industry from ill effects of soaring energy prices. The Federation represents the businesses across the UK which store and move fresh and frozen food and other goods. It…
The shortage of HGV drivers in the UK has become a huge problem for fleet managers, affecting supply chains, retailers and ultimately the consumer. Exacerbated by the pandemic and the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, the recruitment crisis shows no sign of slowing. A bottleneck in the HGV driver testing system means there are…
Currys and Uber have announced a new trial that puts technology on the takeaway menu for Londoners, enabling them to order small tech items and get them delivered fast. Launching the week of 15th November, the tech and delivery giants will come together to respond to growing consumer demand for speed and convenience with an…
Shippers fearing a lack of peak season inventory saw air cargo rates soar again in October, despite no clear signs of a surge in peak season demand for capacity, according to the latest market performance data from industry analysts, CLIVE Data Services. As in previous months, CLIVE’s latest market intelligence reports air cargo market performance…
Online electrical goods retailer AO has opened its fourth warehouse in Crewe. The new more than 300,000ft2 distribution centre is set to create 80 new jobs, and is the largest commercial property build of the year in the area. It will host more than 200,000 appliances, with the increased stockholding capacity allowing products to always…
Forward funding to the tune of £53.8 million has unlocked a 426,000ft2 warehouse scheme in Nottingham in the East Midlands. Investor Oxenwood Real Estate has agreed to forward fund the 28-acre scheme to be developed by HBD. Detailed planning has just been submitted. Known as New Horizon, the scheme will see the delivery of seven…
Basingstoke & Dean Council has refused planning permission on a 2.3 million ft2 Amazon warehouse on land at Junction 7 of the M3 motorway in a planning U-turn. The Newlands Developments’ Equites Park Basingstoke scheme had been approved by the Council in April this year and was expected to consist of a 625,000ft2 footplate with…
DSV and New Balance have agreed to expand their long-standing collaboration. With the new agreement, DSV triples the volume stored and distributed for New Balance in EMEA. To accommodate this significant increase in volume, a tailor-made and automated 60,000m2 DSV warehouse facility in Venlo, Netherlands, has been upgraded and is now inaugurated. Since 2005, DSV…
Supply Chain Excellence Award nominee, sennder, the digital road freight forwarder, IVECO, and CO3 (a data platform for European road freight) have announced a partnership to track loads on the sennder platform. The three companies are working to simplify transport tracking for the entire industry, by using and activating inbuilt GPS devices on vehicles. The…
Technology company ZeroNorth has highlighted the changing role of weather routing in the maritime industry, as new technologies shift responsibility for mastering the weather to more individuals within shipping companies and amplify the influence that voyage planning has on commerciality. Previously the responsibility of multiple, unconnected individuals with different priorities, weather routing through interconnected and…
Ahead of the 25th Supply Chain Excellence Awards, LogisticsManager.com caught up with Microsoft, nominee in the Unipart Logistics Sustainability Award category at the Awards. Taking place next Monday night at the Hilton on Park Lane in London, the Supply Chain Excellence Awards are set to be a night of celebration, as the best in the logistics industry gather…
Volta Trucks has revealed the final production-ready design of the ‘Volta Zero’ – what the Swedish company claims is the world’s first purpose-built full-electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle, specifically created for inner-city logistics. The unveiling of the Volta Zero’s final design – created by partner, Astheimer Design in Warwick, UK – bears a close visual relationship…
The re-usable packaging solutions and pooling specialist for supply chains, Tosca, has introduced the NeRa Pallet – a nestable, rackable and stackable heavy-duty plastic pallet that can deliver efficiencies throughout the automated distribution supply chain. Designed to outperform wood, Tosca claims the NeRa is the first plastic pallet engineered with PowerDeck strength and fitted with SureFoot…
Lindum Packaging has launched a new range of pallet wrap made with 30% recycled content ahead of the introduction of the Plastics Tax next year. The company – which is the UK’s leading expert on pallet wrapping and stability – reports that the product has been developed to add more sustainable options to its existing…
DHL Supply Chain, the contract logistics arm of Deutsche Post DHL Group, is further accelerating the commercial deployment of autonomous forklifts and pallet movers in its more than 1,500 warehouses worldwide, focusing on sites in labour-tight markets across Europe, the UK, Ireland and North America. Autonomous pallet movers can handle both horizontal and vertical movements of palletised…
Rapidly growing e-commerce fulfilment company Selazar has announced a £20 million growth investment that will increase the company’s valuation, enhance its UK network and fund the company’s expansion into Europe, the USA and Latin America. The funding will also see Selazar offer additional e-commerce fulfilment technology and financial services to customers. The investment by a…
Forward funding to the tune of £53.8 million has unlocked a 426,000ft2 warehouse scheme in Nottingham in the East Midlands. Investor Oxenwood Real Estate has agreed to forward fund the 28-acre scheme to be developed by HBD. Detailed planning has just been submitted. Known as ‘New Horizon’ the scheme will see the delivery of seven…
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