Demand for large modern warehouse units is expected to remain above the long-term trend in Europe despite a more subdued outlook for manufacturing markets, according to research by Jones Lang LaSalle

London transport commissioner Peter Hendy will be on Twitter tomorrow morning to answer questions about transport during the Olympic Games, which start on 27th July

Yearsley has broken ground on its £20 million cold store expansion in Heywood, with Rochdale’s Mayor and Mayoress, councillor James Gartside and councillor Jane Gartside in attendance

UPS Supply Chain Solutions has selected Goodman to develop a 108,000 sq ft a multi-customer logistics facility

Metal roof and cladding firm CA Group has fitted out a third facility for Warburtons Family Bakers.

St Austell Brewery is taking on Voiteq’s VoiceMan picking system for its Cornish distribution centre, replacing a paper based process

Construction of the Imeretinskiy cargo port in Sochi, Russia, which will deliver cargo for the 2014 Winter Olympics, has been completed by Transstroy, part of Russian transport and infrastructure construction company Basic Element

Essex based logistics firm Claridon intends to book cargo with shipping lines that call at London Gateway in order to cut out road miles

The FTA has told the Transport Select Committee that each transport mode has a role to play in the supply chain of the future, and that the choice of mode should be dictated by the market

Panalpina has opened a regional head office for the Asia Pacific region in Singapore as part of a growth strategy for the area