Rail freight traffic through the Daventry railport on the 365-acres DIRFT Logistics Park is reaching new records, providing encouraging news for the park’s developer, Seven Trent Property, who has been given the Government go-ahead for a major expansion
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ProLogis has acquired a 48,632sq m facility at the Orebrö Distribution Center in the greater Stockholm area in Sweden.
Some of the UK’s largest non-food retail transport fleets are running at barely 50% of weight capacity and return legs average 21% use. Improvements in efficiency could save the retail supply chain millions of pounds a year, according to Rick Ballard of s
Delivery and collection business Target Worldwide Express is leasing a 2,794sq m unit on the Kites Croft industrial park at Southampton. Target is moving its parcels distribution business from premises in Winchester to the new facility.
Transport operators dealing with perishable goods must adopt more disciplined loss prevention strategies, says David Heather, perishable trade expert and consultant to the TT Club.
Colliers CRE, acting for HM Prison Service has sold the 93,000sq m Branston distribution centre at Burton-upon-Trent to Astral Developments for £25.3M, reflecting a yield of 7.5%.
the collector station at the head of the ‘A’ frame. The ‘A’ frames have 3,950 ejectors in total which can each fire stock onto the conveyor belt at the rate of five singles per second.
Yearsley Cold Storage and Distribution has started building its new depot in the North-east. Located at Seaham in County Durham, the depot will enhance the company’s national distribution network as well as form part of its strategy to build cold stores i
A second Tradeteam site is running Calidus-e after the warehouse management system (WMS) went live at its 13,020sq m national distribution centre at Stretton near Burton-on-Trent as part of a deal with Open Business Solutions. The first site, at Working
Dynamic Europe, the European distribution and servicing arm of the New Zealand-based supplier of control systems for powered wheelchairs and scooters, is moving from Kidderminster to a 1,472sq m speculatively built facility on the Stonebridge Cross Busine
