newsOne Frio launches European cold storage platform
The new player in the European cold storage market has come into being following the acquisition of several established cold storage businesses.
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newsLogistics company buys Knowsley depot
3PL Denholm Good Logistics has paid £11 million for the freehold of a circa.200,000 ft2 warehouse in Knowsley in the Northwest.
newsEXCLUSIVE: Property rivals may work together to deliver East Midlands Gateway scheme
Developer investor heavyweights SEGRO and Prologis are in discussions that include working together to deliver the circa. 5 million ft2 plus East Midlands Gateway 2 scheme in Leicestershire whose DCO application put forward by SEGRO, was accepted by the Planning Inspectorate for examination just last week.
newsEXCLUSIVE: SEGRO DCO application for East Midlands Gateway 2 scheme in East Midlands accepted by Planning Inspectorate
The 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.
articleForklift market positions for recovery
After 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.
newsAmazon-like last mile warehouse mooted for Cornwall
An 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.
newsMan killed in devanning activity
A Middlesbrough road haulage company has been fined £250,000 after a man died while working inside a shipping container.
newsMore focus on upskilling needed
The 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.
newsIndustrial automation and control products distributor signs warehouse pre-let
Routeco 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.
articleInterview: Infios on AI in the supply chain
Following 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.
newsChancerygate secures Bristol site for urban logistics scheme
Developer 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.
articleHighly automated DC pays dividends
An automation project managed by Witron has halved the workforce and cut truck trips in half for a grocery wholesale operation.
videoEfficient Yale fleet helps keep fruit fresh at Chiquita
How Yale electric forklifts, pallet trucks and order pickers are used in cold store food processing operations by Chiquita for precise materials handling
newsMarks & Spencer expands partnership with Zalando
The 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 seals deal on Stoke-on-Trent warehouse
Sheet 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.
newsFunding secured for Northamptonshire midbox warehouse scheme
Investor 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.
newsInfios and Amazon Web Services join forces on agentic AI
The collaboration is said to lay the foundation for agentic intelligence to ‘set a new standard for end-to-end supply chain execution’.
newsPanattoni expands Essex mid box warehouse scheme
Active 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.
articleSmarter warehouse automation
How 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?
articleTime is money
A 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.
