Building on a strong base
Best known as a Japan logistics specialist, NX has been making strides well beyond this remit, as Steve Williams, managing director UK & Ireland at NX explained to Logistics Matters editor Simon Duddy at Multimodal.
Best known as a Japan logistics specialist, NX has been making strides well beyond this remit, as Steve Williams, managing director UK & Ireland at NX explained to Logistics Matters editor Simon Duddy at Multimodal.
The 3PL’s project management and procurement leads will walk through the Corby transformation at Tomorrow’s Warehouse Manchester – from vision to execution.
Brackley Property Developments is aiming to submit outline plans for up to 1 million ft2 of R&D, Advanced Manufacturing and industrial and logistics space on a brownfield site in Derby following an Environmental Impact Assessment application.
Plans for up to 540,000 ft2 of warehouse space have been submitted for a site in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Occupiers of UK warehouses have been given a reprieve after new PM Andrew Burnham announced that the 20% business rates discount offered to high street retailers and pubs would not be paid for with a hike in rates for warehouses.
Plans for a circa.170,000 ft2 midbox warehouse in Trafford Park, Manchester have been approved alongside alternative uses for a 280,000 ft2 data centre on the same site.
The battle of the industrial and logistics developer giants looks to be coming to a head with the SEGRO board saying that US rival Prologis’s last minute £14 billion offer is in essence: ‘much more like it’.
Self-driving software company Oxa says the user is automating for continuity as much as cost.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging vaping-related businesses and supply chains to register for Vaping Products Duty (VPD) and the Vaping Duty Stamps (VDS) Scheme.
A 2 million ft2 plus XXL build-to-suit warehouse is being proposed for an 84 acre greenfield site off Junction 25 of the M5 Motorway to the east of Taunton, Somerset with intitial proposals typical of the new generation Amazon warehouses being brought forward in Northampton, Melton near Hull and at Caddick’s 4.5 million ft2 EM.EX Worksop scheme in the East Midlands.
Right now, warehouses over 500,000 ft2 are hot property nationwide but are increasingly in short supply – if available at all on a regional basis. DTRE research reports that there were just 39 buildings over 300,000 ft2 at the end of May – the lowest supply level since December 2024. And the larger the building, the scarcer the beast with Knight Frank noting there are probably only eight or nine properties immediately available over 400,000 ft2. One such property is Ultrabox – a bit of a beast on the outskirts of East London…
For a logistics manager hunting for flexible haulage, a shipper’s part-empty fleet is easily overlooked.
The streetwear retailer is also seeking to minimise capital expenditure by investing in warehouse automaton using a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model.
One of the largest property companies in the world Prologis has entered into a partnership with a consultancy Fulfillment IQ to accelerate AI adoption and automation across the supply chain.
The Košice logistics centre marks a significant investment in the region and is the second-largest FedEx location in the country.
Culina Group, the UK’s leading logistics and supply chain provider, has today announced the appointment of Tim Lawlor as group chief financial officer.
Meena Sahdev has taken on the role of head of supply chain at the firm which is best known for the Vamoosh pet hair removal brand.
Consumer health company Opella has launched a $70 million production facility in Mexico.
Packaging company Graphic Packaging has taken a new lease on Unit A Frontier House Interlink Business Park in Leicestershire in the East Midlands.
The conversation around the future warehouse typically centres on automation, humanoid robotics, labour shortages and e-commerce growth. Increasingly, however, there is another factor shaping performance, heat. In the UK, this is not about Mediterranean-style extremes, but something more subtle and arguably more dangerous: a logistics network built for a temperate climate that is now regularly operating outside its design envelope. Tristan Holiday comments.