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Palletline is investing around £360,000 over three years in 39 LPG powered Linde 39XH20T forklift trucks, with 33 going to the Birmingham hub and the remainder to Greenford.

Frontier Estates is rumoured to be close to buying the IKEA site at Grange Park, Northampton, for a sum believed to be around £600,000 per acre.

The flexibility provided by the Working Time Directive’s “Periods of Availability” is key to the way that many companies have organised their lorry operations,

ProLogis has won two industry awards. “Property Week” magazine and Germany’s “Immobilien Zeitung” named ProLogis “European Industrial/Distribution/ Logistics Developer of the Year” for 2005 at the recent Expo Real conference in Munich.

Sweet maker Thorntons has chosen Manhattan’s warehouse management solution for open systems at its 140,000 sq ft, multi-temperature central storage facility and distribution point in Alfreton, Derbyshire,

The overflow of national occupiers from the Midlands, looking for available sites and workforces, means that locations such as Skelmersdale are mentioned freely and without the hint of a smirk in conversations that usually centre around Northampton.

The European Commission has cleared, under the EU merger regulation, the proposed acquisition of Exel by Deutsche Post.

According to figures released from the Department for Transport (DfT), the number of lorries from the EU states which joined the European Union in May 2004, have shown an enormous growth in journeys to the UK.