Onward Holdings MD Neil Storey says online shopping has led to a spectacular growth of warehouse space, but there are competing land uses, particularly in the south east where industrial property developers are reportedly frustrated by housing developments being given preference leading to a depletion of potential warehousing sites.
Eddie Stobart Logistics (ESL) has launched a new rail service from the Port of Tilbury to Daventry – the only rail operation from the port for inbound traffic – with a forecast capacity of 200 containers a week.
The UK Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks Dealer Network is celebrating, following news that its EDiA EM three-and-four wheel electric range has made it to the Finals in the FLTA Awards for Excellence in three of the event’s four product categories.
A Linx 8900 Continuous Ink Jet (CIJ) printer is delivering improved all-round coding quality to French confectionery manufacturer Gida Confectionery.
Fabric building specialist Rubb created a new hub for vehicle loading operations for Walkers Transport in just six weeks.
Combilift has been nominated as a finalist in one of the most prestigious and hotly contested international awards in the materials handling industry.
Fabric building specialist Rubb created a new hub for vehicle loading operations for Walkers Transport in just six weeks.
With less than two months until the UK’s scheduled departure from the EU, the Freight Transport Association has questioned whether the government’s projected spend of £29 million to implement Operation Brock has been made available in time.
South-West based BV Dairy was awarded a long-term contract to supply cultured milk drinks and drinking yogurts in 2016 and made a multimillion-pound investment in a new bottling line.
The trucks have a maximum lifting height of up to 11m, with high residual capacities, and are said to be reliable for the highest warehouses.
CPL 3PL has won a major contract to provide a full logistics service for a nationwide retailer.
With the Beast from the East and Storm Emma seeing parts of the UK covered in snow until as late as April last year, Contact Attachments is urging businesses to be prepared for the forthcoming winter weather.
TGW will use the LogiMAT exhibition in Germany to showcase OmniPick – its new zero-touch pocket sorter system.
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The machines are said to be the first of this size sold in the UK for 10 years, as Impact handling, the exclusive UK distributor for Konecranes Lift Trucks, sees a surge in demand for its largest machines.
Interroll offers a wide variety of tapered rollers for installing roller conveyor curves. All are based on tapered elements, which are pressed on a cylindrical steel pipe.
Packline has designed a clamp attachment to suit a customer’s requirements where the Compac lifting machine is used to load and unload reels of film, foil or paper, etc. from a pallet and load them into a wrapping machine.
Kite Packaging has extended its in-the-box packaging offering with new dividers.
After reaching agreement in principle with DB Cargo UK, Maritime Transport. has announced the launch of a new division – “Maritime Intermodal” which will initially contract four dedicated services out of Felixstowe and Southampton.
SICK has launched its Safe EFI-pro System, which is standard industrial Ethernet-based safety network integration for highly-adaptive and dynamic safeguarding in automated production and logistics environments to SIL 3/PLe.
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