Rapid economic growth in Asia means that demand for warehouses is rising rapidly. Charlie Jacoby looks the development hot spots.
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Northern Foods is to sell off its distribution arm, NFT Distribution, as part of a major restructuring which will see it disposing of businesses that represent 40 per cent of group revenue.
Impact Toyota has won a contract worth £250,000 to supply and maintain some 23 counterbalance trucks to Debach Enterprises, the Ipswich based transport and warehouse provider.
Classic Drinks, the drinks wholesaler and distribution company, has replaced its fleet with 16 new MAN TGL 7.180 4×2 BB 7.5 tonners. The replacements have been supplied with two-year warranty packages by MAN ERF Manchester.
Slough Estates, new owner of Heywood Distribution Park near Manchester, is to build speculatively there.
Hans-Herbert Schultz has been appointed the new managing director of Jungheinrich UK, to be based in Milton Keynes.
Woodward Foodservice has won a three-year contract worth £12m to supply fresh, frozen, chilled and ambient food to all 230 Little Chef outlets across the UK.
Vanderlande has won a contract with Polish company Huhtamäki, for the delivery and installation of an order consolidation system based on the Variostore HDS.
The FTA and RHA are calling on the government to introduce a system of collecting information from visiting lorry operators and drivers which, in future, could be subsumed “into a formal European database exchange”.
Growth of the northern ports contributes to the growth of UK competitiveness as well as more sustainable patterns of distribution by bringing goods closer to their end destinations and avoiding long haul road and rail journeys from ports in the south,
