Business can be a roller coaster ride, but this time it was the roller coaster that got the ride. P&O Ferrymasters was chosen by Vekoma Rides to transport the Motorbike Launch Coaster and a Suspended Looping Coaster from two manufacturing sites in Holland

Pat Lally, formerly operations development director for Allied Bakeries, has joined TDG Contract Logistics as operations director. He has had 25 years experience in the food distribution industry.

Eastern Europe has been likened to the Wild West. But Charlie Jacoby wonders if those heading east will make the quick profits they are hoping for.

Is the North West in the super shed category? Liza Helps takes a closer look.

Investors have committed more than £40m to develop a 69,677 sq m (750,000 sq ft) warehouse in Doncaster, which has yet to secure an end user.

Lane Group, advised by Atisreal, has sold its distribution warehouse at Garanor Way, Royal Portbury Docks, Bristol to Westbury Property Fund for £3.95 million. It has leased back the 38,405 sq ft (3,568 sq m) property on a 20-year lease at a rent of £307,

According to King Sturge’s latest UK Industrial and Distribution Floorspace Today survey, speculative development of industrial property in the UK is at its highest level for five years and large distribution facilities account for over 70 per cent of it.

Boultbee Group in association with Schroders, is opening of a 7,936 sq m (85,422 sq ft) speculatively built £22 million warehouse/industrial unit called Zenith 2, at Junction 6 Industrial Estate, Witton.

Opus Land and Arlington Property Investors are set to increase the size of their Opus Nine development in the Black Country following the £2m plus acquisition of an adjacent 3.44ha (8.5-acre) plot owned by garden tool maker Spear & Jackson.

Developer JF Finnegan has been selected as preferred developer by RDA Yorkshire Forward for the 6.72ha (16.6 acre) Beighton colliery site,