Dachser Air & Sea Logistics has entered the Swedish market with the opening of an office in Gothenburg.
“For us, Dachser Air & Sea Logistics Sweden is a further investment in our global air and sea freight network and a way to build up our position in the Scandinavian market,” said Jochen Müller, chief operating officer for Air & Sea Logistics.
Orders for forklift trucks were ten per cent down in the second quarter of 2016, although the market remains at historically high levels, according to the British Industrial Truck Association. BITA’s market index report, released at IMHX, said the market had been affected by political uncertainty result from the EU referendum. However, the manufacturing sector,…
Industrial devolpment giant Gazeley is to adopt the GLP brand name three years after Singapore based GLP acquired the company. Gazeley was set up in 1987 as a merchant developer and started its first scheme Magna Park Lutterworth – now a 16 million sq ft park – the largest dedicated logistics park in Europe. It…
Since 1999, the logistics companies Gebrüder Weiss and Röhlig have operated out of their respective air and sea freight offices overseas under the joint name “Weiss-Röhlig”. Both companies are now announcing that this joint brand name will be phased out in 2017. In the medium term, both logistics companies would like to operate in the…
Developer Verdion has announced a £300 million speculative development programme that will deliver all remaining warehouse capacity at iPort, its 6 million ft2 multimodal logistics hub just outside Doncaster. Totalling 1.75 million ft2, this final stage of development at iPort will offer five buildings from 82,000ft2 upwards, with delivery from June 2023. The largest of…
Jaguar Land Rover is planning to create a new global aftermarket parts distribution centre on a 2.94 million sq ft campus at junction 11 of the M42 near Tamworth. The site would supply 80 markets worldwide and meet Jaguar Land Rover’s long term business needs for parts distribution throughout the UK and Western Hemisphere. JLR…
Urban Consolidation Centres can play an important role in helping local authorities to meet emission targets and reduce congestion, according to the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC), the not-for-profit innovation centre which is overseen by Innovate UK. The TSC, on behalf of the Department for Transport, has developed an economic assessment tool that estimates the cost…
