The Bristol Port Company has sealed a one million pound contract with Cooper Specialised Handling to supply it with four 45-tonne, customised reach stackers from Konecranes. Cooper SH, the UK distributor for lift equipment manufacturer Konecranes, won
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Marks & Spencer is to delay the construction of its £67m distribution centre in Bradford as it slashes non-essential spending following a sharp fall in profits.
What a difference a year makes. Groupe Norbert Dentressangle will be celebrating the first anniversary of the acquisition of Christian Salvesen this month, a move which saw the company double in size and expand its scope of activities throughout Europe si
St Austell Brewery has snapped up the 100,000 sq ft former Borders Books warehouse on the St Columb Major Business Park, near Newquay, as a new regional distribution centre.
Parcelforce Worldwide has reduced manual handling at its Glasgow warehouse with a Sovex conveyor system, which helps it process more than three million parcels each year. The 45,000 sq ft Glasgow site accepts parcels from the company’s larger Coventry hub
A further 600,000 sq ft of land has been released at Carisbrooke Investment’s 55-acre Haverhill Business Park in Suffolk for bespoke freehold and leasehold buildings up to 200,000 sq ft.
As supply chain and logistics directors grapple with the challenges of managing a growing volume of goods from outsourced manufacturing sites in the Far East and eastern Europe, focus of attention has turned to the weak link in the chain, the ports.
Robert Cleeve of King Sturge says: “Although the UK has seen three consecutive years of increases in industrial floor space availability, the latest level of increase was minimal at 0.5 per cent. However, in the South West there was nearly 1.4 million sq
Every day in Britain at least one worker is taken to hospital with injuries following an accident involving a forklift truck. And, on average, once every six weeks someone is killed. Statistics from the Health & Safety Executive show transport is the seco
A single unitary authority would stimulate the release of land for commercial development and economic prosperity for the region.
