Worcestershire records storage management company Whitefoot-Forward has transformed an ex-Ministry of Defence store at Cursley Distribution Park, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, into a new a 60,000 sq ft warehouse.
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TNT Express is to introduce the first-ever express road service between the United Arab Emirates and Iran.
The whole of SladenAston’s 650,000 sq ft refurbishment in Doncaster is under offer to a fashion retailer.
Distribution centres have steadily increased in size over the past couple of decades so it’s almost inevitable that we will soon see a number of million square foot warehouses.
Protesters are ranged against a proposed 220,000 sq ft of new cold stores at Boroughbridge near the A1(M). On one side, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Roecliffe Parish Council and Boroughbridge Town Council are protesting against the scheme.
RFID technology has not yet delivered in all that many places, Peter Ward, supply chain and RFID leader for IBM UK told delegates to the Institute of Grocery Distribution’s 6th Retail Logistics Summit in London last month.
Like the paparazzi surrounding celebrities, agents and developers are crowding round the warehouse market in the southern part of the M1. And like the paparazzi, they are creating problems for themselves.
Malory Davies looks at some of the latest developments in FLT technology
It seems that everybody is doing it. Deutsche Post and Exel are doing it. Kuehne & Nagel and ACR Logistics are doing it. And now Logistics Manager and Supply Chain Business are doing it. What we are all doing, of course, is getting together.
The government’s high fuel duty strategy, coupled with the increasing operation of foreign lorries in the UK, is causing serious problems for the Scottish transport industry, according to the FTA.