Bicycle and car parts retailer Halfords is to take a new 320,000 sq ft purpose-built distribution centre in Keresley Park, Coventry as part of its reorganisation plans for the distribution network in 2010.
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MG sports cars are once again in production at Longbridge in Birmingham, and to increase the pick rate of small components in the company’s logistics centre, MG has chosen Linpac Storage Systems to design and install a new range of dynamic carton live she
Property agents across the country are reporting an increase in the number of companies enquiring about space for logistics for the first time in a year.
Electrical retailer Maplin recently moved to a 200,000 sq ft distribution centre atManvers, close to Rotherham.
Enquiries are on the up, but the thought that occupiers could turn and flee again must be too dreadful to bear, says LIZA HELPS.
Estonia plans to turn hundreds of hectares land in Ida-Virumaa into an industrial park.
It’s not only a long but a lonely one, with the Midlands and North West sections of the M6 accounting for 38 per cent of the UK’s total empty warehouse space. But this might be changing. JESSICA DAVIES reports.
Some 800,000 professional drivers will be affected by the European Union-wide Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) directive, which comes into force for lorry drivers from 10th September. Although aimed at raising the skills of professional driver
The Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (Driver CPC) is now becoming a reality. The legislation, which requires an initial qualification for new drivers and for HGV drivers to participate in 35 hours of training over a period of five years, will
David Higginbottom of the RTITB reckons there is widespread confusion among drivers over what the CPC entails, saying “what drivers do know tends to be inaccurate”.
