Supermarket giant Tesco enlisted newly formed CoGri Malaysia to construct a special floor slab at its largest purpose built distribution centre in south east Asia.

Permaban Floor Solutions has completed a project for real estate company Giffels Management Russia on a 600,000 sq m distribution centre near Moscow.

Companies are inching towards embedding collaboration into their supply chains, but how far can it go?

With no speculative development in sight and a plethora of deals going down Liza Helps investigates how real the prospect is of a warehouse shortage.

Developer ProLogis has racked up lettings on existing built space totalling more than one million sq ft across four schemes in the last two months.

Sunlight Group has taken 48,000 sq ft in three warehouse/ industrial units at C1 Trade Park, part of the Aberaman Industrial Estate near Aberdare, on a ten-year lease at a stepped rent rising to £110,000 in the fourth year.

The latest construction survey says the construction of factories and warehouses is expected to fall almost 60 per cent between 2007 and 2010.

All too frequently the floor gets overlooked, and it often seems to take an accident or for equipment to get damaged before it gets a second look. Lucy Tesseras thinks it deserves better

It may seemmore risky to choose one of the smaller
logistics providers over a big player, but,with their
entrepreneurship and flexibility, they might be able to
teach the big boys a trick or two. Jessica Davies reports.

The Technology Strategy Board launches its competition for £10m of funding today (2nd November) called Informed Logistics.