Plans have been approved to demolish the former Chungwa building at Eurocentral and create a new £300m business park which will include four new warehouse units totalling 244,000 sq ft.

Wrenbridge is to develop a 126,000 sq ft speculative warehouse on a 7-acre site just off the M6 Toll Road.

Kuehne & Nagel has taken Wrenbridge Land’s 160,000 sq ft warehouse in Hams Hall, West Midlands as a shared-user contract logistics facility.

Ossian Retail Group subsidiary Au Naturale, has pre-let a 157,689 sq ft warehouse at Eurocentral in Scotland to facilitate its ongoing expansion.

Rents outside the Golden Triangle have and will continue to see robust rent increases as a consequence of rising land values, according to North Rae Sanders

Having just pulled out of one warehouse scheme owing to planning controversy, it looks like Tesco has ploughed straight into another.

The Office of Rail Regulation has told the government that there is a strong possibility that final charges will be below current levels in its advice on track access charges.

The Channel Tunnel was supposed to be a key factor in the revitalisation of the rail freight industry in the UK by opening up opportunities to run fast train services right across Europe.

All rail freight services in Europe were opened up to competition from 1 January.

Although rail freight is growing it has struggled to keep up with the overall rise in transport activity, but, says Malory Davies, there is now the promise of more access for bigger loads at lower cost.