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Logistics development manufacturer Transdek supports the UK Government’s plans for bigger trucks amidst ongoing driver shortages. The company has shown its support for the Department for Transport, which has previously looked at enabling vehicles to carry more loads, and is expected to roll out longer semi-trailers, (LSTs), next year. These trailers, alongside double deck trucks…
Why Brexit will add labour woes to an already stretched e-commerce sector. Available to watch now! E-Commerce sales have grown hugely over the past 2 years and many warehouses with manual packing stations and a reliance on temporary labour have found it difficult to keep up with increased demand. With a wide array of automation…
When a major UK food manufacturer of ready meals and snacks – best known for its popular tinned fish, pastas, canned fruit and pulses – was looking for a pallet capable of handling bulk dried ingredients in its new raw materials warehouse, Goplasticpallets.com was able to deliver the perfect solution. Specifically, a plastic pallet solution…
Next-generation DCs will combine robots with people in ways that are far more fluid and dynamic than traditional automated facilities. Warehouse operators face new challenges in coordinating and optimising the work of humans and their robotic coworkers. This presentation will: 1. Provide an overview of the principal tasks and workflows that will combine robots and…
Stena Power and LNG Solutions, a subsidiary of shipping conglomerate Stena AB, and Global Energy Storage (GES), a developer and operator of energy storage terminals, have announced a strategic partnership to identify and advance LNG logistics and storage solutions. Together, the two companies bring the full range of LNG terminal and logistics expertise from floating…
Commercial real estate investor and developer, Firethorn Trust, has secured planning permission to regenerate a 42.5-acre brownfield site in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire into a 700,000ft2 logistics park. Firethorn acquired the site from Peel Ports Group in November 2020. Planning approval has now been granted for Link Logistics Park, creating approximately 800 jobs for the local…
Employers of LGV or PCV drivers, can now take their training up a gear with RTITB’s online Driver CPC Periodic training portal. Designed to benefit training teams, Instructors and drivers, it features new, relevant topics and refreshed course content, all of which can be built into customisable training playlists. “We developed this portal to provide…
Internet retailer Amazon has opened a 700,000ft2 plus ‘pop up’ fulfilment centre in Peterborough to cope with the expected demand ahead of Christmas. Amazon has taken the 736,708ft2 former Debenham’s unit at Kingston Park, Hampton on an initial short term lease to support its primary warehouse on the adjacent site. Around 2,000 temporary jobs are…
Home Deliveries – How to make a customer focused proposition the reality. Since the start of the Covid pandemic there have been many challenges created in delivery and fulfilment. The massive increase in eCommerce sales has greatly increased the number of packages that need to be handled, customer expectations have also increased and this has…
Kuehne+Nagel and Lufthansa have partnered to promote the use of synthetic fuel from NGO Atmosfair. Both companies have committed to supporting the first production site for synthetic ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel, (SAF), by purchasing 25,000 litres per year for the next five years from Atmosfair. The synthetic SAF is set to replace the need for more…
Marken, the clinical trial logistics operation with UPS Healthcare, has expanded its global network to support increased demand for its clinical drug supply chain services, particularly for cell and gene clinical trials. Plans for the remainder of 2021 and 2022 will support accelerated demand for mRNA therapies, cell and gene therapies, early access and managed…
Denim brand G-Star RAW has selected RFID solutions provider Nedap Retail’s Nedap iD Cloud platform to achieve full inventory visibility in support of its omni-channel strategy. What started a few years ago as an in-store inventory visibility project leveraging Nedap Retail solutions has now grown and is further closing the gap between online and brick-and-mortar…
UK retailer, Asda, has selected Blue Yonder to digitally transform its end-to-end supply chain and retail operations. The supermarket giant will implement several SaaS-based capabilities within Blue Yonder’s Luminate Planning, Luminate Commerce and Luminate Logistics, as well as Luminate Control Tower, all running on the Luminate Platform. Asda’s retail network consists of supercentres, superstores and…
Knight Frank’s preliminary data shows that take up of warehouse space in Q3 2021 totalled 15.7 million ft2, and predicts that take-up of warehouse space in the UK is set to breach record levels set in 2020. So far take-up has reached 46.9 million ft2, 27% above the amount leased in the same period in 2020….
The October 2021 issue of Logistics Manager Magazine is now available to read online! Cover Story: To the Moon and Back Nick Bradley speaks to NASA’s Deep Space Logistics team about an exciting new chapter for human exploration – returning to the Moon in the next four years and then onto Mars and beyond from…
Electric truck manufacturer, Tevva, has announced it has received £4.2 million in funding to help finance the further development of its next generation, zero-emission, long-range medium-duty trucks (7.5-19 tonnes GVW). The funds represent the majority share of a £5.7 million total grant from the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). The grant will be utilised to…
A new Free Running Explosive Detection Dog (FREDDs) Service that will save both valuable time and money for local exporters has been launched by Speedlink International Logistics in Belfast. This is the only service of its kind on the island of Ireland, and it is estimated to shorten the process of screening and shipping dense…
Global automotive logistics specialist GEFCO UK, has expanded its footprint in Liverpool with the opening of a new, state-of-the-art, 176,000ft² logistics sequencing centre in Speke. The facility comes as part of an ambitious €6.4 million investment by GEFCO and its client Jaguar Land Rover and marks a new chapter in GEFCO’s relationship with the automotive…
Schroder UK Real Estate Fund (SREF) has announced that it has completed a significant swap deal with SEGRO plc which involves seven industrial assets based across the UK. The recently completed transaction consisted of the sale of Matrix Park, in Park Royal London and a £65 million capital payment in exchange for the simultaneous purchase…
DP World has opened an 11.5-acre new empty containers park at Southampton to increase storage capacity and maintain service levels for customers during the peak pre-Christmas season. The new facility will be able to hold additional empty containers to meet customers’ requirements, a critical factor in keeping supply chains moving at a time when dwell…
Consumer parcel delivery specialist Hermes has underscored its commitment to an emissions-free future by placing a huge order for 168 fully electric Mercedes-Benz eSprinters. The zero-emission vans should all be on the road before the end of the year. They will be assigned to Hermes’ popular ParcelShops service, which operates from more than 5,000 convenience…
To help its customers reduce their environmental footprints, GEODIS has developed an eco-design approach that integrates the impacts of its logistics services. Implemented by GEODIS for its Contract Logistics line of business, the eco-design methodology aims to identify the environmental impact of a logistics service at all stages of its life-cycle and propose areas for…
Amazon Logistics is to open a delivery station on the second phase of developer Mountpark’s WarringtonOmega development in Warrington – this is the second Amazon warehouse in the town. The 203,390ft2 warehouse is one of three built speculatively by Mountpark in 2020. Each building includes a rooftop Solar PV array that will meet around 50%…
In its continued efforts to help e-commerce, wholesale and retail companies improve their warehouse efficiency, Acme Intralog has introduced pick-to-light technology in partnership with Kardex Remstar. Growing order demand and limited storage capacity combined with fluctuating demand leave e-commerce companies struggling to meet customer delivery times. Using Kardex Remstar’s ‘Color Picking’ pick-to-light solution, Acme offers…
Deliveroo has launched a new rapid grocery delivery service. ‘Deliveroo Hop’, which will operate from delivery-only grocery stores offering consumers grocery in as little as 10 minutes. The service will benefit from a deep integration between Deliveroo’s newly developed grocery management technology and the company’s logistics algorithms and network of over 50,000 delivery riders across…
International real-estate advisor Savills, on behalf of ESB, has brought to market a major land development opportunity in Knottingley, West Yorkshire. Comprising approximately 51 acres (20.63 hectares) of development land and site zoned for light industrial and/or residential uses, the land offers excellent opportunities for redevelopment. Located on the outskirts of Knottingley, the site is…
With the boom in online shopping – and the resulting challenge for logistics companies to create more efficient and safe deliveries – Ford and Hermes UK have now come up with a solution. Why not deliver parcels to your car where they will be safe and dry and can be picked up at your convenience?…
What has been billed as a transformable and dismountable micro electric vehicle has been officially unveiled – and it is made in the UK. The if.Micro makes deliveries more environmentally friendly and cost effective. Research by the company behind it, if.Vehicles, has found that it dramatically cut costs and carbon emissions for the last mile….
National online fulfilment specialist E-Warehousing has taken a complex of three warehouses totalling 114,000ft2 at Avondale Industrial Estate in Cwmbran, West Wales. The space has been taken to accommodate the exponential growth of the business, which already has two similar premises in Kenilworth and Pontypool. Kevin Chalkly, director of E-Warehousing, said: “Pre-lockdown we were already…
InPost has announced a new partnership with supermarket chain Tesco Plc, which will see its automated parcel machines (APMs) deployed across Tesco’s entire large-format store estate in the UK, potentially up to 500 sites, by the end of November. This new partnership adds InPost’s lockers to Tesco’s concession offering, increasing the range of services and…
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