There’s a lot of talk about supply chain collaboration but not nearly as much action. But rising fuel costs and growing environmental pressures are making it increasingly attractive. Malory Davies considers some of the latest thinking.
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West Midlands stockholder The Metal Centre has doubled hourly pick rates, from 15 to 30 per hour with the same manpower, as a result of moving to Unicompact systems supplied by Kasto from a manual handling system using conventional racking and fork lift t
ProLogis’ proposals for a distribution warehouse scheme at New Greenham Common near Newbury Berkshire have been thrown out by councillors. Traffic generation, pollution and the visual impact of the buildings were cited as reasons for refusal. ProLogis has
Rising fuel costs are the most significant pressure coming to bear on businesses this year, which means that service companies now need to reduce the miles that their engineers cover on the roads.
In addition to leasing Ceva an 80,000 sq ft warehouse complex in Daventry, Nene Group has fitted out the warehouse with racking and ancillary products supplied through Nene’s Rentarack rack rental scheme.
Gladman Developments is marketing G-Space 140, a 140,000 sq ft speculative unit near the A14 at Bury St Edmunds at a quoting rent of £5.75 per sq ft.
How many people do you know that rate more than 2,500 references in Google – or are quoted by newspapers all across Europe? I can only think of Geoff Dossetter, who retires on 26th September as director of external affairs at the Freight Transport Associa
Black County-based Pallet Track has acquired a new large distribution facility, as part of a major expansion programme designed to more than double its business.
Liza Helps looks at the opportunities available along the M6 corridor for the savvy occupier.
All across Europe, banks are writing off billions of euros as the credit crunch takes its toll. Deutsche Bank’s last figures show that pre-tax profit for the quarter April-June at 642m euros was down from 2.7 billion euros the year before.
