Developer Tallantire Properties has paid less than the £1.2 million asking price for F&C Property Asset Management’s 23,000 sq ft Unit C warehouse on South Marston Park near Swindon.

Rents for warehouses in Scotland rose by 7.2 per cent in the six months to March 2007, according to Jones Lang LaSalle’s 50 Centre Report.

Gazeley and UK Coal developer Haworth Estates have submitted plans for an 850,000 sq ft sustainable logistics building near Ashby de la Zouche in Leicestershire, which could create up to 900 jobs.

A resolution to grant planning permission has been made for the development of RD Park Derby.

A government planning inspector is due to set the date for the Planning Inquiry into HelioSlough’s £300m rail freight interchange in Hertfordshire.

Opus Land has started on site with the extension of the 300,000 sq ft former Littlewoods Distribution Centre at Centrum 100 Business Park in Staffordshire.

The British Council of Shopping Centres is gathering information on freight consolidation centres and off-site storage centres for a report into the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating them within the retail logistics process.

EMPATHY Net-Works is a project part-funded by the European Social Fund and Hull University Business School, to help encourage women into the logistics and supply chain industries.

Barloworld has six accredited training centres across the UK, employs 32 mobile instructors and trains around 6,000 operators each year.

The shocking revelation that hundreds of thousands of people working in the logistics sector have no qualifications highlights the fact that vocational training is needed more than ever before. Jessica Davies reports.