newsThe Planning Inspectorate accepted investor developer SEGRO’s Development Consent Order application for its 5 million ft2 East Midlands Gateway 2 scheme in the East Midlands, yesterday.
articleAfter a year defined by delayed investment decisions, rising costs and fragile confidence, the UK forklift truck market is moving through a period of adjustment rather than retreat, a new financial report reveals.
newsAn Amazon-like state-of-the-art last mile parcel hub is being mooted for a site near the Chiverton Cross interchange on the A30 dual carriageway in Cornwall.
newsA Middlesbrough road haulage company has been fined £250,000 after a man died while working inside a shipping container.
newsThe logistics sector puts a lot of focus on attracting people into the industry, but not nearly enough on how to retain and help them progress, says Generation Logistics.
newsRouteco a leading distributor of industrial automation and control products, has signed a pre-let agreement on a multi-million-pound new warehouse being developed in Buckinghamshire.
articleFollowing the eye-catching tie-up between Infios and Amazon Web Services to back up the former’s agentic AI offering, Logistics Matters spoke to Infios EVP global product and industry strategy Richard Stewart.
newsDeveloper Chancerygate has acquired a five-acre site from Farmfoods in Avonmouth, Bristol, for an undisclosed sum, to speculatively develop 135,150 ft2 urban warehouse scheme.
articleAn automation project managed by Witron has halved the workforce and cut truck trips in half for a grocery wholesale operation.
videoHow Yale electric forklifts, pallet trucks and order pickers are used in cold store food processing operations by Chiquita for precise materials handling
newsThe retailer has signed a partnership agreement with ZEOS, the B2B unit of Zalando, to fulfil its entire online direct-to-consumer orders in continental Europe covering 21 markets.
newsSheet metal manufacturer and distributor Jarrobs has taken a 40,000 ft2 + warehouse on the former Dudston pottery factory in Stoek-on-Trent which was redeveloped by investor Vengrove last year to create an industrial estate.
newsInvestor Investec has provided developer Hillwood with a £27.7m senior loan for the development of a 248,000 ft2 Grade A industrial scheme in Northamptonshire.
newsThe collaboration is said to lay the foundation for agentic intelligence to ‘set a new standard for end-to-end supply chain execution’.
newsActive industrial and logistics developer Panattoni has acquired an additional 10-acre plot at Horizon 120 Business Park in Braintree to deliver the next phase of its Panattoni Braintree scheme which it acquired last year.
articleHow do you transform a 100,500 sq m warehouse, the size of 14 football fields, to handle a surge in small-item eComm orders without building new facilities?
articleA new AutoStore approach to flooring is cutting installation time and saving money for customers. Ellen Brune, VP of product management, AutoStore talks to Logistics Matters editor Simon Duddy.
newsFurther tax rises for the warehousing sector would have damaging consequences, the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has warned the Chancellor in its submission to the Autumn Budget.
newsChancellor Rachel Reeves refused to rule out tax rises as she said she will make necessary choices in the upcoming Budget.
articleLogistics Matters Property Editor Liza Helps examines the upcoming Budget.
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