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The January 2021 issue of Logistics Manager Magazine is now available to read online! Cover Story; Delivering the Vaccine; Hope on the Horizon; Delivering a super-chilled vaccine for Covid-19 will test cool-chain integrity like never before…. SME Special; Materials Handling Equipment; Small movements, big ideas; How do SME’s benefit from investments in materials investments in materials…
Has automation enabled e-commerce growth, or has e-commerce growth enabled further automation in the warehouse? It’s an unanswerable question, as one factor indelibly impacts the performance of the other. Michelle Mooney investigates. What has changed is the retail landscape that automation is feeding. E-commerce has accelerated by five years in the past five months, according…
Trucks have started to leave the temporary lorry park in Kent, after France reopened its borders to the UK. It comes after the UK government warned HGV drivers to avoid going to Kent amid “major delays and disruption at the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel.” The government added that to leave England, drivers must undertake…
More than 12,500 trucks have been removed from UK roads as the first freight train arrives at HS2’s main construction compound in Buckinghamshire. Over the next year, more than 180 freight trains will deliver the equivalent of 12,670 HGVs, and will reduce carbon emissions by more than 30,000 tonnes. The first train was operated by…
DHL has said that disruption caused by the mutating Covid-19 virus, will affect some services, as Royal Mail suspends some international services after travel impact. DHL said that due to restrictions across the globe after a mutation in the virus was spotted, it has decided to impose a “complete delivery stop” for its Post and Parcel…
Multi-let industrial property Stendrop has acquired three multi-let estates totalling £11.8 million. The three estates in Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Wigan have been purchased in separate transactions for a total consideration of £11.82 million. Bringing the total number of MLI acquisitions since 30th September 2020 to five for an aggregate value of £25.8 million. The 81,495 sq…
Warehouse REIT has bought a warehouse portfolio consisting of four single multi-let assets across the UK for £18.6 million. The assets include; Stonebridge Cross, Droitwich Spa, comprising two detached industrial units totalling 48,000 sq ft within the 77-acre Stonebridge Cross Business Park; Valley Point, Rugby, a 39,000 sq ft unit on Swift Valley Park; 1…
SCB Vehicle Dismantlers has hired Palletways to handle daily collections and provide next day economy service to customers in the UK for SCB. Palletways will also take responsibility for SCB’s international shipping equipment. Peter Irvine, Operations Manager at SCB, said: “Providing a two-hour window means our customers don’t have to wait in all day for…
Going back to a post-Covid-19 economy isn’t going to happen soon, so businesses are adapting to new trading conditions. However, the speed of change is shaking up the property market and demand for big sheds. Liza Helps investigates. It has been a tumultuous year and what we envisioned only a short six months ago is…
Trebor Developments and Hillwood have completed the construction of a 411,470 sq ft speculative industrial unit at Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The £40 million unit is located on a 25 acre site at Armthorpe – with direct access from the A630 to Junction 4, M18 – has 38 loading doors and lorry parking for 75 HGV…
RM Educational Resources has selected Swisslog to fit-out a new automated distribution centre in in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. RM – which provides education resources for early years, primary schools and secondary schools – will use Swisslog’s Tornado Miniload cranes to consolidate its warehouse operations in the UK, which is currently spread across four different sites. Monique Louis, Managing Director at…
France has imposed a 48 hour travel ban on all UK nationals travelling to France, including HGV drivers, in a move which has seen the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel suspend all services for freight. Yesterday France – which is in national lockdown – said it was restricting travel from the UK from midnight CET on…
E-commerce 3PL Streamline Logistics has signed a three-year lease on three units with St. Modwen Industrial & Logistics to expand its premises at Bestwood Business Park in Nottingham. The three units, total more than 53,000 sq ft, are of steel portal frame construction and have 8.5m eaves, level access loading, welfare accommodation, and dedicated car parking spaces. Located…
Online retailing accounted for 31.4% of total retailing, compared with 28.6% in October 2020, according to the latest figures from the ONS, with overall growth of 74.7% compared with November 2019. As non-essential retailers were forced to closed their doors for the majority of November, particularly during the second national lockdown in England, the month…
John Lewis Partnership is rolling out NHS Test and Trace lateral flow Covid-19 testing, partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, following a pilot scheme in November. Covid-19 testing was introduced initially to the national John Lewis distribution centre at Magna Park, Milton Keynes, in November via a pilot scheme. This was in response…
Hermes has taken Oxenwood Real Estate’s 78,650 sq ft warehouse facility in Weybridge in Surrey as its main south-east parcel delivery depot. The facility, Logistics 15, at Vickers Drive, West Park Industrial Estate, was taken on a 15-year lease at a rent of £15.15/sq ft. The facility was acquired in June 2019 from the then occupier, Northamber, by Oxenwood for Oxenwood Catalina, its joint venture with…
GEFCO UK is to provide pre-delivery services for prospective fleet clients at London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC). GEFCO will provide LEVC, formerly the London Taxi Company, with conversions and deliveries to prospective van fleet clients from its Corby finished vehicle logistics centre. Leighton King, Commercial Director at LEVC, said: “GEFCO has provided invaluable support over the past…
The GMB union has slammed Asda following national media reports that its new owners would explore the sale of its logistics assets. Walmart agreed terms for a £6.8 billion sale of a controlling stake in Asda to a consortium led by Lancashire-based brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa – the billionaire owners of petrol forecourt firm…
A.P. Moller – Maersk is to provide global cold chain logistics for pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk over the next three years. The new contract will see Maersk provide Novo Nordisk with cold chain logistics and transportation including ocean services and inland logistics starting in Q2 next year. Maersk will use its ECO Delivery service, which uses sustainable…
Boughey Distribution, part of the NWF Group, has fitted its 226,000 sq ft warehouse in Crewe with an adjustable pallet racking system with 35,500 new positions. Boughey took a 12-year lease at Panattoni’s Crewe Commercial Park in December 2019, with AR Racking subsequently fitting the adjustable pallet racking system on the site which has a top beam height of 12.4m….
Ocado has snapped up the last available speculatively built warehouse at Tritax Symmetry’s 53-acre Symmetry Park, Bicester scheme in Oxfordshire. The online retailer has taken Unit B, comprising 163,664 sq ft on a 20-year lease. The facility will be one of the most advanced in the world with high tech robotics and will create around…
Hicks Logistics has joined Pallet-Track to cover Welsh border postcodes around Chepstow and Avonmouth. Hicks, which has 30,000 sq ft of warehousing space, will cover the region for the pallet network from 4th January 2021. Hicks owner Nigel Evans said: “Being part of a network provides a lot of opportunities for full and part load which…
Forth Ports has welcomed the UK governments £11.7 million fund for an enlarged border infrastructure at the company’s import and export hubs at Grangemouth, Tilbury, and Tilbury2. Contractors are currently on site, and the new border inspection facilities are set to be approved and operational by 1st July 2021. Charles Hammond OBE, Chief Executive of…
GLP has completed the development of over 1.25 million sq ft of logistics space at Magna Park South, Lutterworth. The new development includes three units of 746,000 sq ft, 126,000 sq ft and 300,000 sq ft, which are all available for immediate occupancy, while Unit 4 comprises of 99,000 sq ft and has been leased…
Developer Chancerygate has paid in the region of £3 million for a 5.4 acre plot in Wigston, Leicestershire, which it intends to speculatively develop as a mid-box warehouse scheme. The 127,925 sq ft project will comprise 16 units ranging in size from 3,725 sq ft to 18,350 sq ft and have a gross development value…
Stretton Property Group has secured outline planning for more than 720,000 sq ft industrial and logistics warehouse space on a 40-acre site on Cumwell Lane, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The site will be known as Interchange Park the scheme is located just off Junction 1 of the M18. The scheme can accommodate a range of Grade…
Successful packaging means getting smart; in the materials used, the way items are packed and the technology tracking deliveries. But is it enough to meet the demands of environmentally-conscious customers? Michelle Mooney investigates. In September Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce business, launched a waste reduction initiative to limit excess packaging and make sustainably manufactured products…
Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital and mobility services arm InMotion said it has invested an undisclosed sum in blockchain technology firm Circulor in order to increase supply chain visibility. The automotive manufacturer said that InMotion it would provide it with greater transparency when it came to sourcing premium materials, as providing further visibility into the provenance,…
A major global retailer, understood to be Amazon, has been linked to a new mega warehouse development in East Yorkshire. Wykeland Group has submitted a detailed planning application to East Riding of Yorkshire Council for a development at its Melton West business park. Campaigners ‘Save Ferriby 2020’ – which is against the development – said…
Colliers, Lambert Smith Hampton and DTRE have been selected as joint agents for Canmoor Developments 300,000 sq ft plus Lowry Park scheme in Newton Heath, Manchester. The 14.08 acre site will be developed on a built-to-suit basis with the developer submitting a planning application for multi-let units totalling 300,000 sq ft, or alternatively the site…
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