Tesco has been pulled as a potential occupier for an 850,000 sq ft warehouse at Goodman’s million sq ft scheme in Andover.

EnvironCom has taken Threadneedle Property Investments’ 157,000 sq ft Scope warehouse on the Spittlegate Industrial Estate to the south of Grantham.

The Council for the Protection of Rural England, South Yorkshire branch, is opposing two distribution developments in the region, which could provide up to 4,000 jobs.

ProLogis is offering leases from three years with six monthly break clauses thereafter across the whole of its wholly-owned five million sq ft portfolio in the UK, say property sources.

Every day in Britain at least one worker is taken to hospital with injuries following an accident involving a forklift truck. And, on average, once every six weeks someone is killed. Statistics from the Health & Safety Executive show transport is the seco

As supply chain and logistics directors grapple with the challenges of managing a growing volume of goods from outsourced manufacturing sites in the Far East and eastern Europe, focus of attention has turned to the weak link in the chain, the ports.

Parcelforce Worldwide has reduced manual handling at its Glasgow warehouse with a Sovex conveyor system, which helps it process more than three million parcels each year. The 45,000 sq ft Glasgow site accepts parcels from the company’s larger Coventry hub

What a difference a year makes. Groupe Norbert Dentressangle will be celebrating the first anniversary of the acquisition of Christian Salvesen this month, a move which saw the company double in size and expand its scope of activities throughout Europe si

The Bristol Port Company has sealed a one million pound contract with Cooper Specialised Handling to supply it with four 45-tonne, customised reach stackers from Konecranes. Cooper SH, the UK distributor for lift equipment manufacturer Konecranes, won

In any profession there are some tasks that are particularly satisfying – and for me one of those moments came in presenting the award for Supply Chain Innovation at the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards. As you will see from our awards report, Guy’