Tesco is submitting plans for a 700,000 sq ft distribution warehouse on the 58-acre former Courage Brewery site at Worton Grange in Whitley, Reading, Berkshire

American engineering firm Thetford is taking a pre-let of 83,000 sq ft at St Paul Development’s Brookfields Park in Rotherham

Staffordshire haulier Partridge Transport Services has doubled the size of its base at London & Cambridge Properties’ Burntwood Business Park, near Cannock, to meet growing demand

Hermes has opened a new northern distribution hub in Warrington and is enhancing its depot network with an additional location in Crawley, West Sussex, and an expanded site in Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Stobart is urging local businesses to write to Carlisle council to support its plans for a 394,000 sq ft freight distribution centre and resurfaced runway at Carlisle Airport

Kerry Logistics, the Hong Kong based forwarding and logistics group, has acquired two freight forwarding companies in the UK: Bergen Freight Forwarding based in Manchester, and Regency Forwarding based in headquarters in Yorkshire

The Co-operative Group will officially open its £25 million multi-temperature distribution centre today in Newhouse, Lanarkshire, which will serve 618 stores in Scotland and Northern Ireland

ELB Partners of Wimbledon in London has opened a second depot in Purfleet, Essex

The Freight Transport Association has spoken out against plans by the European Commission to limit the height of UK trailers

Tesco is set to trial Jungheinrich’s first lithium-ion powered pallet truck, the EJE112i