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QuickSTAT has doubled the size and capacity of its warehouse and conditioning facility in Belfast, and will be opening additional strategic in-transit warehouses and conditioning facilities worldwide in 2021. This investment is part of a pharma healthcare strategy to provide Kuehne+Nagel and QuickSTAT customers seamless logistics for all stages of the pharmaceutical life cycle –…
LogisticsManager.com takes a look at why data visualisation is so effective in logistics. Data visualisation is all psychological. Seeing data in the tangible form of a chart or graph is the fastest way to analyse data at a glance. Visual data is designed to tell a story. It sounds simplistic, but the most significant benefit…
Panasonic has agreed to purchase digital fulfilment platform provider Blue Yonder. Panasonic will purchase the remaining 80% of shares for $5.6 billion, (£4 billion), of Blue Yonder, adding to the 20% already acquired in July 2020. By combining Panasonic’s industrial engineering, IoT, and edge technologies with Blue Yonder’s AI/ML-driven supply chain and commerce technologies, the…
Economists predict that the UK economy will show a dramatic recovery from the pandemic – but this could be curtailed by a simple shortage of storage space, writes Matt Whittaker, Commercial Director at Bis Henderson Space. The company’s clients are discussing a serious market failure, yet, extraordinarily, in the government’s recent White Paper on planning,…
DHL Express is purchasing its first 100 units of Fiat Professional’s new Fiat E-Ducato. The large vans are 100% electric, boast a large capacity, long life battery, and a range of more than 200km, making the vehicle very well suited for last-mile logistics. In line with the recently launched Sustainability Roadmap of DPDHL Group, DHL…
IWS Group, The Industrial Workspace Specialists, has acquired The Rack Group, a provider of pallet racking safety, inspection, repair and maintenance solutions. IWS Group provides services and supplies to the logistics, warehousing and material handling sectors in the UK, across Europe and beyond. The acquisition will further strengthen its position in core markets, extend the…
GB Railfreight has partnered with Celsa Steel for 12 years to provide internal rail movements. Building upon an existing relationship of ten years, GBRf will provide internal shunting services including a supply of remote-control shunt locomotives, train crews, and ancillary services. There will also be a team of shunt crews operating shunt movements on a…
TJ Morris has bumped up the delivery of its 800,000 sq ft Home Bargains warehouse in Doncaster by a year. The retail corporation has paid Hargreaves Services, through its Unity joint venture £25m for land at Unity, a major regeneration and development scheme in Yorkshire, a year earlier than planned. The sale was originally expected…
Research by Yodel has found that consumers are increasingly looking for more sustainable retailers to support. More than half, (53%) of 18-34s said they’d be more inclined to purchase if the delivery company focused on reducing its emissions. Younger shoppers are also the most likely (28%) to take the CO2 emissions of their online shopping…
The Brexit Transition Period ended on 1st January 2021. This webinar will look at how businesses have, in reality, been affected by the changes and the level of certainty around the future and further changes from 1st July 2021. In this exclusive webinar, you will find out; • How companies have been affected by Brexit…
Schuh and New Look are the latest brands to sign up to InPost’s recently launched QR code returns service. ‘Instant Returns’ was launched to streamline the returns process for consumers. Customers scan their QR code at an InPost locker and drop the parcel off, without the use of labels. The retailers have signed up to…
West Yorkshire-based online consumer goods retailer Buy It Direct has leased Panattoni’s speculatively-built 23,404 sq ft warehouse at East Midlands Distribution Centre in Castle Donington close to East Midlands Airport. The new facility will provide 90,000 extra pallet spaces for Buy It Direct’s appliances, bathroom products and furniture. The cross-docked warehouse benefits from 76 dock…
A new 55,000 sq ft parcel distribution hub is set to be built at developer Stoford’s Exeter Logistics Park in East Devon. The commercial property developer has submitted two reserved matters planning applications to East Devon District Council, for two new building units on land at the former Hayes Farm, Clyst Honiton. They include the…
Virgin Atlantic has announced the addition of cargo-only services to Frankfurt from its London Heathrow hub. From 25th April, the airline will fly twice a week before increasing to three times a week from 1st May. This is the first time that the airline has offered direct flight services to and from Frankfurt and with…
Panattoni, has snapped an 8.33 acre site on the M3 corridor near to Farnborough, south east of London where it intends to develop a 170,000 sq ft speculative warehouse. The development known as Panattoni Farnborough 170 will see the demolition and redevelopment of the former Benthalls warehouse with a 168,241 sq ft Grade A facility…
Such is the demand for well let warehouses in the UK that Tritax Big Box has paid £90 million in an off-market deal for a wine warehouse in Bristol. The 872,000 sq ft distribution centre is let to Accolade Wines and is a key component of the company’s supply chain used for receiving, then bottling…
Following the news that two of the units on GLP’s Magna Park South site, including the 745,000 sq ft mega shed are under offer, the company has submitted plans a further 1 million sq ft plus of speculative development on its Magna Park North site. The new development will consist of three units of 200,102…
Unipart logistics has seen a strong performance despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite recent global challenges, the company’s turnover is broadly in line with the previous year at £786.7m (2019: £799.2m), resulting in underlying Group profit before interest and taxation slightly lower than the previous year at £16.1m (2019: £17.8m). Company profit before…
Work has begun at M&S’s Bradford DC so that it becomes an online warehouse for M&S.com, the company has today announced The reengineering of M&S’s supply chain, including the extension of Bradford to permanently improve online capacity, is an important enabler to M&S’s MS2 division. Under MS2, M&S is setting itself up to best digitally…
Bullet Express has invested in the Fortec Distribution Network to become its latest shareholder member. Bullet Express is the latest member to join Fortec Distribution. Fortec, began offering shareholder memberships to its members when it was acquired by Pall-Ex Group in August 2020. The model, which has seen a strong uptake since then, provides greater…
IM Properties is looking to increase the amount of space available at its Peddimore scheme in Birmingham by 1.49 million sq ft. The developer is looking to revise the original application for Zone 1A to accommodate its new end user – rumoured to be Amazon. Originally the total floor space for the entire scheme was…
Following a period of expansion, three years after the opening of its warehousing facility at Burnley Bridge, logistics company Fagan & Whalley has begun plans to expand into additional warehousing space at Frontier Park, in Balckburn. The new depot comprises over 200,000 sq. ft. of warehousing and distribution facilities and has been acquired by Fagan…
Ocado has announced today that it has partnered with Oxbotica, to develop a range of autonomous vehicles. The use cases range from vehicles that operate inside of Ocado’s Customer Fulfilment Centre buildings and the yard areas that surround them, all the way to last-mile deliveries. The Ocado/Oxbotica relationship began in 2017, when the companies conducted…
Supply chain operations across the UK and EU are under pressure like never before. The pandemic, Brexit and outdated fulfilment models are all contributing to a major rethink on how supply chains operate. The participants will offer valuable thought leadership on what companies need to do to address the challenges and develop more sustainable models…
Global logistics specialist Menzies has announced announced that it is making all of its operations carbon neutral by 2033. Menzies Aviation will formalise this industry-leading carbon neutrality commitment by becoming a signatory to the UN Global Compact in 2021, which supports the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In order to reach carbon neutrality Menzies…
Plans for a 500,000 sq ft plus logistics and office scheme have been submitted to Harborough Council with the potential to create hundreds of new jobs for Market Harborough. Wellington Business Park is located to the north-west of the town on a 25-acre site within one mile of the A6 and forms part of the…
Geek+ has partnered with Asda Logistics Services, and AMH Materials Handling to increase operational efficiencies at Asda’s distribution centre in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire. Sixty robots have been placed into the supermarket’s distribution centre, allowing 2,000 parcels to be sorted each hour with 99.99% accuracy through its Asda ‘Toyou’ service. The installation marks the first…
XPO Logistics and ASOS have expanded their partnership with a new Lichfield fulfilment centre and Barnsley contract renewal. XPO Logistics has today announced it has been awarded the contract to manage a new fulfilment centre in Lichfield Staffordshire for online retailer Asos. The 437,000 sq ft distribution centre at Fradley Park is expected to commence…
Industrial developer Tritax Symmetry, has secured detailed planning permission for two warehouses totalling 320,000 sq ft at the 111-acre Symmetry Park Rugby scheme in the Midlands, which it will develop speculatively. The units measuring 186,000 sq ft and 134,000 sq ft will be built to net zero carbon in construction Joseph Skinner, Associate Development Director…
Mid box and urban logistics developer Chancerygate has started construction work on phase two of its Mersey Reach development in Aintree to deliver a further 12 new build units totalling 102,485 sq ft. Units will range from 4,000 sq ft to 30,000 sq ft. Phase two is being built by Triton Construction, which won a…
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