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Jungheinrich has launched two very narrow aisle vertical order pickers, the EKS 210 and EKS 312, with RFID technology built in, which enables a warehouse management system to automatically guide the forklift to the right location.

Wincanton expects its financial performance to be similar to last year, which is around the lower levels of analyst forecasts for the current year – mainly as a result of weakness in the markets for construction, home delivery and recycling as well as low

Former chief executive of Deutsche Post Klaus Zumwinkel has been slapped with a two-year suspended jail sentence and a one million euro fine for tax evasion, according to press reports from Germany.

As the Christmas hangovers started clearing in January, two things became very clear. The first is that a number of retailers did a lot better than the doom-mongers were predicting; the second is that effective management of the supply chain will be even

Companies considering either a new-build project or an extension should be able to negotiate keener prices, according to Chris Friendship of warehouse and distribution property specialist sbh.

The other day I read a document that starts: “Freight is important and matters to everyone”. At first I thought it had been written for five year olds.

Obviously it is a buyer’s market and one would expect this surplus, coupled with the government’s insistence on Empty Rates, to lead to a drop in rent levels. However, Owen Holder of Knight Frank says there is a note of caution. “As yields have moved out