A prominent industrial unit within Blantyre Industrial Estate, Lanarkshire, has changed hands in a £1million ‘off-market’ deal, structured by property agent James Barr.

Stoford Developments and LaSalle Investment Management have pre-let a 75,000 sq ft unit at the 40-acre Vale Park West scheme in Evesham. The occupier has signed a ten-year lease with an option to break at the end of the fifth year on the warehouse, which

Bayer CropScience, one of the world’s leading crop science companies, has selected Atisreal to advise on the sale of its 40-acre manufacturing site on Gorsey Lane in Widnes, Cheshire.

Timber and panel products distributor James Latham is to establish its first Scottish site at the Eurocentral business park in Lanarkshire.

Development partners Sladen Estates and Peveril Securities have secured a site in Thorne, Doncaster where they intend to build a 227,603 sq ft warehouse with two storey integral offices, a large goods yard and 111 car parking spaces set within a landscape

International freight distributor RJJ Freight has leased a refurbished 5,620 sq ft unit at Ringway Trading Estate on Shadowmoss Road, near Manchester Airport on a ten year lease at a record rent of £6.50 per sq ft.

Occupiers are increasingly on the look out for sites with good access to the rail network and port connectivity as pressures grow for more sustainable supply chains, according to Lambert Smith Hampton’s latest National Industrial and Distribution Report.

One area where the industry has come in for criticism is on carbon emissions. The Soil Association is currently running a second stage in its widely publicised consultation programme to decide exactly how it should approach the issue

A huge amount of work is going on in the Gulf states to secure their economic future as oil revenues decline. A huge new airport is being built at Abu Dhabi, while fifty miles down the road in Dubai

Air cargo is a $50 billion business that is losing competitiveness, according to Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association