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Volumes at Menzies Aviation and Air Menzies International – the air cargo and freight forwarding divisions of John Menzies – remained strong in the first half of the year as new contracts stemmed wider losses at the firm. In the six months to 30 June 2020 John Menzies saw significant declines in its ground-handling and refuelling…
Commercial vehicles entering London will need to run at a minimum of Euro-6 from 1 March 2020, as logistics operations have to comply with tighter Low Emission Zone standards. The shift from Euro-4 engine standards for commercial vehicles, including trucks and vans, was set to come in at the end of October, but was moved…
Discounter Aldi is to spend £1.3 billion over the next two years upgrading and expanding its store footprint, rolling out its click and collect service and expanding and adding to distribution centre network. Under the investment plan, Aldi expects to open approximately 100 new stores across the UK over 2020 and 2021 in line with its…
Eddie Stobart is to reduce its holdings in Speedy Freight, after its minority shareholding parent revealed that losses had widened in the six months to May. Eddie Stobart Logistics, the AIM-quoted cash shell which holds a 49% equity interest in the trading entities of Eddie Stobart, said that for the six-months ending 31 May 2020,…
Cold store specialist Lineage Logistics has broken ground on a 230,000 sq ft expansion to create a southeastern superhub at Roxhill’s 180-acre Peterborough Gateway in Cambridgeshire. The new fully automated facility will have 92,000-pallet-position, which will serve both retail and foodservice customers with unique supply chain requirements. The company said that the 35-metre tall building…
Haulage, storage and distribution firm George H Kime & Co Ltd has taken St Modwen’s 54,793 sq ft industrial and logistics unit at St. Modwen Park Lincoln. The company has secured a 15-year lease on a pre-let basis at the unit on the second phase of the 70-acre development, which is now fully let. Nigel…
Caddick Developments is proposing to deliver a new 612,500 sq. ft industrial and logistics hub in Farington, Lancashire. The proposed development would include 612,500 sq. ft of commercial space, offering a mix of industrial and logistics space with ancillary offices, providing the flexibility to accommodate businesses of all types and sizes. Proposals include a range…
A total of three mega warehouses across Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire have been sold by specialist logistics and industrial property investor Tritax Big Box REIT for £77 million. Tritax Big Box REIT has sold a 473,263 sq ft site let to Whirlpool at Warth Park, Raunds, a 255,680 sq ft building occupied by DHL at Langley…
Express parcel carrier Yodel said it would create 2,950 new jobs to handle volumes during the Christmas peak. The new roles comprise of 2,500 self-employed courier positions, as well as 450 positions at Yodel itself, , including couriers and parcel sorters across its 50 locations in the UK. Total online retail sales in August were 46.8%…
Boohoo said it needs to go” further and faster” to improve the governance, oversight and compliance of its supply chain, after an independent review identified ‘many failings’. However the Independent Review, conducted by Alison Levitt QC, also found ample evidence that the steps which boohoo was now taking in relation to remedying problems in its Leicester…
IntraLogisteX is going interactive on the 1st & 2nd October 2020, following the Government announcement earlier this week regarding exhibitions not being allowed to take place. Many professionals from throughout the world of logistics, supply chain, intralogistics and beyond were planning on attending the show in person next Thursday and Friday, sourcing new products and…
Reducing supplier costs would boost earnings of FTSE 350 companies more effectively than cutting jobs, a study has found. According to The State of Spend 2020 report, published today, FTSE 350 companies would see an average 27% increase in EBITDA from a 10% cut in supplier spend. This compares to a 12% EBITDA increase resulting from a…
Plans for a 2 million sq ft logistics park in the West Midlands secured approval from Rugby Borough Council during a virtual meeting on 16th September 2020. Tritax Symmetry submitted proposals for 2,007,470 sq ft of commercial space on a 114-acre site on land north of the A45 and M45 junction, which comprises the employment…
Logistics UK (formerly the Freight Transport Association) has warned that if the government does not consider the economic impact of its latest coronavirus containment measures it could lead to further job losses. Logistics UK’s chief executive, David Wells has urged the government to provide support for industries affected by the impact of Covid-19 and the…
Plans have been submitted for a 1.9 million sq ft industrial and logistics park in Aylesford, Kent. The £180 million proposals have been put forward by specialist logistics developer Panattoni on the 90-acre Aylesford Newsprint site which Logistics Manager reported it had bought in December 2019. The brownfield site has been vacant since 2015 when…
An anti-bacterial hand gel for Boots UK was the 200 millionth item to be picked by a Locus Robotics autonomous mobile robots earlier this month. Locus Robotics Chief Executive Rich Faulk said the milestone came as “more and more” shoppers were moving online in what is expected to be the biggest – and most challenging…
The Road Haulage Association has accused the government of leaving logistics and road transport operators to “carry the can” and says its promises that businesses will be ready as just “a whitewash” with just 70 days to go until the end of the Brexit Transition Period. Yesterday the Cabinet Office published a briefing entitled ‘Reasonable…
Amazon has launched a waste reduction initiative to limit excess packaging and make sustainably manufactured products more easily accessible. As part of its ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ initiative, various grocery, household, fashion, beauty, and personal electronics products, as well as items from a range of other categories, will be clearly labeled as sustainable in search results….
Food services provider Maning Impex is to deploy Microlistics Enterprise WMS at its Camberley, Surrey, warehouse. Manning Impex said it will run Microlistics Enterprise WMS because it outgrew its existing paper-based and manually processed WMS. Mike Cheong, Manning Impex’s chief operating officer, said: “Microlistics WMS being such a robust, agile and technically-advanced platform will allow…
The Cabinet Office has predicted queues of some 7,000 port bound trucks in Kent and delays of up to two days for freight movements by road across the Channel following the end of the Brexit Transition Period on 31 December. According to its briefing ‘Reasonable Worst Case Scenario for borders at the end of the transition…
Tarmac has renewed its contract with GB Railfreight for five years from January 2020 to 31 December 2025, for the transportation of aggregate materials. The contract includes the supply of hopper and box wagons and is an extension to the current contract which covers the northern package of Tarmac’s rail operations, encompassing services mainly from Arcow…
Fleet management specialist Zenith has acquired the fleet services, rental and finance operations of the Cartwright Group from administrators for an undisclosed sum. Zenith said the acquisition gives the group a commercial vehicle rental and leasing fleet of some 50,000 vehicles and one of the largest trailer rental fleets in the UK. Chief executive of the…
St. Modwen has completed a deal to bring ScS (Sofa Carpet Specialist) to Stonebridge Business Park in Liverpool. ScS will take on a 32,000 sq ft unit on a 10-year lease, transferring to this warehouse from a smaller unit in Warrington. The park is located on the East Lancashire Road (A580) in north Liverpool, close…
The CMA CGM Jacques Saade is to conduct its maiden voyage later this month, becoming the largest LNG-powered container ship in the world. The 23,000 TEU vessel will join the French-Asia Line, CMA CGM Group’s route between Asia and Northern Europe. It is planned to be the first in a series of nine LNG-powered ships…
XPO Logistics has been awarded a five-year contract to provide transport and store goods for UK Border Force. Live operations are planned to begin in March 2021. XPO will operate from existing government facilities, providing services covering Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as the UK border in France at Coquelles. XPO will also be responsible for transporting items from the point where Border Force takes control…
It’s time to look back on such contrived online sales promotions as Black Friday and Cyber Monday as relics of their time…. In the same way that we view a man with a red flag running in front of a car to warn of its impending arrival. It serves its purposed, it has done its…
Volumes at Waitrose.com are almost triple the level than they were last year, as the combination of the shift from Ocado and customers buying more groceries online during lockdown boosted the John Lewis Partnership. Like-for-like sales at Waitrose during the six months ending 25 July, were up almost 10% on last year, with Waitrose.com delivering…
Take-home grocery sales rose by 10.8% during the 12 weeks to 6 September, according to Kantar, but slowed down during August at the Eat Out to Help Out scheme skewed food and drink volumes in the supply chain. Furthermore, the retail research firm said that in the most recent four weeks year-on-year sales growth decelerated…
The I’s have it at IntraLogisteX 2020 with a host of exhibitors and conference speakers set to inform, innovate and invigorate your intralogistics infrastructure at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on the 1st and 2nd October. I is for… intralogistics. Well it had to be didn’t it. IntraLogisteX is the ONLY intralogistics show taking place in the…
Investor appetite for logistics space continues unabated with a reported £66 million off-market sale of a 1 million sq ft warehouse let internet giant Amazon in Scotland. South Korean investor KB Securities was reported to have paid around £66.8 million for the fully automated facility in Dunfermline – making the deal the largest single-asset industrial…
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