Falcon Steel has acquired 200,966 sq ft industrial premises on the Westfield Industrial Park at Waunarlwydd in Swansea on a new 20-year lease.

Developers Chase Commercial and Hortons’ Developments have secured consent for a new 71,818 sq ft industrial warehouse on a four-acre site known as “Ashchurch 9” located next to the Ashchurch Parkway Railway station in Gloucester.

Warehouses in and around London Heathrow are still the most expensive in the world according to property consultant Cushman & Wakefield with rents averaging 185.03 Euros per sq m.

Bed maker and retailer Sleepmasters has secured Newbridge Capital’s 20,000 sq ft warehouse at Pen Y Fan Way, Oakdale in Caerphilly at a rent of £67,000 a year.

Shepherd Developments, in conjunction with the Abtech Group, has completed the development of Access 63 near Selby.

Book distributor Littlehampton Book Services has leased a 107,000 sq ft shed at St Modwen’s 630,000 sq ft industrial site in South Ockendon, Essex.

Jungheinrich has opened seven specialist used forklift truck showrooms throughout the UK.

Almost a quarter (14,177) of the 56,980 commercial vehicles inspected by ATS Euromaster during February 2009 were found to have at least one tyre-related issue which required either servicing or replacement by its team of mobile technicians, the company h

The Kuehne Foundation is funding a new chair at Technische Universität Berlin to extend research in the field of international logistics networks and to strengthen the courses offered in degree and non-degree programmes.

Freight capacity provided on UK short sea freight ro-ro, lo-lo and channel tunnel services has grown by more than three million units (24 per cent) since 2000, according to the ninth annual report by Peter Baker of PRB Associates.