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Key Property Investments, a joint venture between St Modwen Properties and Kuwait-based Salhia Real Estate, has let a 110,000 sq ft warehouse at Westinghouse Road, Trafford Park, to Malikson Warehousing on a ten-year lease.

Worcestershire records storage management company Whitefoot-Forward has transformed an ex-Ministry of Defence store at Cursley Distribution Park, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, into a new a 60,000 sq ft warehouse.

TNT Express is to introduce the first-ever express road service between the United Arab Emirates and Iran.

Welsh first minister Rhodri Morgan has unveiled the new £11m railhead and warehouse at the Corus steelworks in Deeside.

Protesters are ranged against a proposed 220,000 sq ft of new cold stores at Boroughbridge near the A1(M). On one side, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Roecliffe Parish Council and Boroughbridge Town Council are protesting against the scheme.

RFID technology has not yet delivered in all that many places, Peter Ward, supply chain and RFID leader for IBM UK told delegates to the Institute of Grocery Distribution’s 6th Retail Logistics Summit in London last month.

The chief executive of Britain’s largest rail freight operator EWS, has said that the company would have to seek fresh capital, possibly through stock market flotation, to finance ambitious development plans.

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.