Parcel delivery firm Evri is to open a £60m parcel sortation hub in Barnsley next Tuesday (20 September). Named Colossus, the 341,000 sq ft facility is said to be the biggest of its kind in Europe and will sort 1.1 million parcels a day for onwa…
Parcel delivery firm Evri, formerly known as Hermes UK, is celebrating the opening of its new Gatwick depot by donating £2,000 to St Catherine’s Hospice. Hospice worker Emma Peadon received the donation from depot manager Stephen Byrnes, in the …
Marshall Fleet Solutions is expanding its UK operations with the opening of a new flagship depot in Tamworth, West Midlands. The multi-million-pound facility, totalling 26,000 sq m, was declared officially open for business with a ribbon cutting…
DX Group said revenue for the year ending 2 July 2022 would be 11% ahead of last year, with its overall performance expected to be significantly ahead of management targets. In a trading update, the parcel courier and logistics company said turn…
DHL is set to invest £482m across its UK e-commerce operation, DHL Parcel UK, the company announced this week. The investment follows a 40% volume uplift since the start of 2020 and soaring demand for its e-commerce and B2B services, DHL said. A…
Evri will open a new depot in Plymouth next month, creating over 50 jobs in the area. It said the development was part of its commitment to investing in infrastructure to support the growth in online shopping. The new site is on the Parkway indu…
Davies Turner is building a 140,000sq ft logistics hub on the edge of Atherstone in the West Midlands. It said the multi-user hub would rival in size its largest site in Avonmouth and will feature a high bay fully racked area, with a top locatio…
Palletways’ Milton Keynes depot is celebrating two years in business having been launched just a week before the first lockdown in March 2020. Based in the Kiln Farm area of Milton Keynes, the business employs 35 people, in office and sales posi…
DX Group has entered an 11th hour battle to keep its shares listed on AIM after they were temporarily suspended from the trading platform in January this year, following the company’s failure to publish its annual audited results. The company ha…
Fortec Distribution has launched a logistics depot at its Watford Gap site. Launched in December 2021, the depot will now operate as part of both the Fortec and Pall-Ex distribution networks offering delivery services to manufacturers and distri…
Wren Kitchens has submitted revised plans for a distribution centre at Great Hallingbury, close to Junction 8 of the M11, after the original scheme was turned down last year. The proposed development would replace Wren’s current site at Stansted…
Invesco Real Estate and Barwood Capital have teamed up to build a £300m portfolio of up to eight urban/last mile industrial and logistics warehouses across the UK. The partnership has already acquired its first two sites, including a four-acre p…
The rise in online shopping and courier activities over the last decade means there are now 11 local authority districts in the UK where transport and storage has become the dominant industry, official figures reveal. The Office for National Sta…
Transport and logistics is leading the field in terms of the number of new business premises opening up – thanks to the boom in postal and courier services. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the sector has expanded f…