Peel Ports has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle and B8 Real Estate to master plan and market its 75 acre former Bridgewater paper mill site in the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal at Ellesmere Port, Liverpool

UK-based fresh fruit and vegetable supplier, Dole Fresh UK, has pre-let a 61,000 sq ft warehouse at Barwood and Legal & General’s M6EPIC scheme near Wigan

Christmas volumes are up more than five per cent on the previous year, according to DHL Supply Chain

Johanna Parsons, Logistics Manager’s senior reporter, has won the Journalist of the Year Award in the 2013 Seahorse Club Awards

80 per cent of managers do not see their supply chain as an enabler of business strategies, according to Hitachi Consulting’s latest research

Import and distribution firm Stranded Wholesale has awarded Eureka Solutions a contract, to help manage its business with its specialist business systems

Jan Lorenz has been appointed as Jungheinrich UK’s new managing director, replacing Hans-Herbert Schultz, who is taking responsibility for sales in North-West Europe

Asda Logistics Services has opened its £55 million chilled distribution centre in Avonmouth, as part of a £70 million investment

Tritax Big Box REIT plc is to acquire Marks & Spencer’s East Midlands Distribution Centre at Castle Donington for a purchase price of £82.6 million

Forklift truck manufacturer Crown is moving to a larger European headquarters site at Feldkirchen near Munich in Germany