Medical and surgical products supplier Vygon (UK) has chosen the Empirica warehouse management system from Chess for its distribution centre in Cirencester – the first time that Vygon has employed computerised warehouse management.

The Automated Material Handling Systems Association (AMHSA) has pulled together some of the industry’s top speakers for its first ever symposium.

Freight and shipping specialist Quality Freight (UK) has invested £1 million in buying a Liebherr 150 mobile harbour crane for its operations at Ellesmere Port.

The Port of London Authority has appointed Roy Stanbrook as harbour master for the Lower Thames District which stretches along the Kent and Essex coasts from Crossness to the sea.

Electric vehicle maker Tanfield says it now has orders for more than 600 trucks in 2008 and is ramping up production at its Washington factory to meet demand.

Felixstowe has broken the record for the number of containers handled by its two rail terminals for the second time in the space of three months.

Some lorry operators are struggling to obtain new vehicles ahead of the February 2008 deadline for the London Low Emission Zone, according to the Freight Transport Association.

Home Retail Group has submitted a planning application to create a 750,000 sq ft distribution centre at AWG Property’s Gwent Euro Park.

National furniture retailer SCS has taken Unit 7002 at Graftongate and Legal & General’s Cross Point scheme in Coventry.

Jones Lang LaSalle and White Commercial have been selected as joint agents for a 46,920 sq ft warehouse on Wildmere Road, Banbury.