Warehouse

Davies Turner, the UK’s leading freight forwarder and logistics service provider, is seeing a definite upsurge in enquiries about the availability of warehousing space, driven by customer concerns about the outcome of the Brexit negotiations and the future of UK trade with the EU after March next year. Previously, the …

Automated materials handling solutions specialist TGW Logistics increased turnover by almost 15% to €713 million and employed nearly 400 additional staff across its global operations in the financial year ending June 30th 2018. The company invested over €24 million in innovation and future solutions, focusing on robotics and cognitive systems, …

United Kingdom Warehousing Association UKWA CEO, Peter Ward, has expressed the Association’s disappointment and frustration that the Government seems not to have recognised the critical labour shortage facing the warehousing and logistics industry; a sector that depends on immigrant labour – particularly at peak times, such as Black Friday, Cyber …

Dematic, a leading global supplier of integrated automated technology, software and services to optimize the supply chain, today announces it will open a new sequencing and distribution center to accommodate growing customer demand for automated technology solutions. The new sequencing and distribution center will replace an existing smaller Dematic distribution …

Clive Brady of Wincanton has been appointed as the Chairman of the Bonded Warehousekeepers Association (BWA). The BWA exists to represent and promote the business interests of its members along with their supply chain and service partners who have been approved to operate a bonded warehouse facility. Mr Brady, who …

The industry needs to pay more attention to warehouse infrastructure argues Renovotec’s Richard Gilliard Research conducted by consulting firm PwC reveals that transportation and logistics CEOs ‘feel a sense of urgency about updating their legacy IT systems, which have suffered from a lack of investment in recent years and are …

The UK’s favourite parcel delivery company DPD has opened its largest ever depot at EuroCentral, near Glasgow, creating 65 new jobs initially, with recruitment ongoing. The new 70,363 sq ft state-of-the-art Distribution Centre (DC) is 11 miles east of Glasgow, near junction 7 of the M8 motorway and was officially …

Smart-Space, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and installers of re-locatable, semi-permanent and permanent buildings, has completed the construction of a finished goods warehouse for Northwood Hygiene Products at the company’s production site in Telford, Shropshire. Northwood manufactures, supplies and transports away-from-home (AfH) professional paper hygiene products to a distribution …

‘Red Ledge warehouse management and control’ system includes RFID goods tracking, automated routing and warehouse ‘lights out’ automatic storage and retrieval Software engineering and automation specialist Red Ledge is launching a new version of its WMS, ‘Red Ledge Warehouse Management and Control’ which makes extensive use of automation to optimise …

• Riverford Organic Farmers has adopted warehouse automation to improve customer choice and delivery performance at the doorstep. • Daifuku, the world’s leading material handling specialist, advised Riverford on the choice of technology as well as implementation. • New automation at Riverford’s Devon headquarters has given each delivery driver an …