Swiss Post International has taken Units 11 and 12 totalling 42,018 sq ft at Brixton’s Heathrow Estate on a short-term lease until 2015 at a rent of £11.80 per sq ft with a three month rent free period.

Plans to extend Evans Property’s Network 46 scheme in Lincolnshire have been approved.

International stone work surfaces company Cosentino Group is opening its third UK distribution centre and showroom at Gloucester Business Park in Gloucestershire.

According to Lambert Smith Hampton’s Corporate Real Estate Matters, despite the economic turmoil, occupiers still recognise that sustainable buildings boost productivity and they will pay up to a 15 per cent premium for that benefit.

Brixton has secured its first letting at its double decker warehouse X2 in Heathrow.

A cut price European retailer has taken a 93,500 sq ft warehouse at Croudace Properties’ Barnwood Point scheme in Gloucester on a five-year lease.

The Rail Freight Group has called on the Olympic Delivery Authority to increase rail deliveries and halve the number of road deliveries, to the Olympic construction site in Stratford, which it reckons would cut 800,000 truck movements from the area.

British Airways World Cargo has reported £673 million in sales (flown revenue plus fuel surcharges) for the year beginning April 2008 – a 9.4 per cent increase against the same period last year.

PSV Transport Systems has taken delivery of two load-lugging Sprinter 311CDIs – one fitted with an Eco-Start fuel-saving system – and a pair of Vito 115CDI Dualiner Sports.

Courier network CitySprint has won a three-year contract extension with RS Components UK, distributor of electronic, electrical, electromechanical and industrial products.