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AMEC Developments has recently received planning permission for four units to be built on the final phase at Valencia Park, part of the region’s prime distribution centre, Wakefield Europort. Totalling 6.743sq m (72,500sq ft) and starting on site this

Turner Bianca, which imports fine household textiles, has taken delivery of two new Romadek HH1500 mobile dock lifts to improve handling safety in offloading shipping containers arriving at its Manchester depot.

As at the middle of July, FPDSavills Research had identified 42 schemes that were in the development pipeline within the M25 northern sector, a market area that stretches from the M40 eastwards to the Thames and goes as far north as Stevenage.

Storage and transport of Jus-Rol pastry products is now being handled by Celsius First at South Kirkby as part of a new contract with General Mills Bakeries and Foodservice worth some £1.95M a year.

Emirates has extended its contract with Pourshins after three years of service across Europe. Pourshins will continue to manage the logistics for Emirates’ nominated food and beverage products.

JD Sports, one of the largest retailers of sports and leisure goods in the UK, is using nearly 200 Datalogic Viper RF-3 portable data collection terminals at two of its distribution centres.

NYK Logistics (UK) Consumer & Retail, formerly New Wave Logistics, has invested in a new warehouse at Avonmouth. The £170,000 project provides the company, which is part of the NYK Logistics group, with 5,110sq m of storage space, including 465sq m of rac

DIY superstore operator Homebase has awarded a warehousing and distribution contract to Unipart Logistics, the specialist supply chain management arm of Unipart. The contract, covering the warehousing and distribution of around 30% of Homeba

Dutch B2B group Hagemeyer specialises in supplying the electrical materials, safety and Maintenance and Repair Operations (MRO) sectors throughout Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

For some time Government and EU policies have been aimed at promoting greater sustainability in transport and, in recent years, there has been no shortage of official advice and encouragement towards the promotion of modal shift