Pallets and Containers

As the demand for click and collect and online shopping continues to soar, investors are turning their attention to retail warehouses near heavily built-up areas in a bid to transform them into last mile delivery hubs.

Midland Pallet Trucks, a provider of high-quality material handling equipment including pallet trucks, manual stacker trucks and lift tables, has pinpointed the warehousing industry as the driving force for economic recovery in the UK.

National efforts to plug the skills gap in the logistics sector, including attracting much-needed truck drivers, faces an uphill battle unless the industry addresses fundamental infrastructure issues such as reversing the lack of investment in truck stops and secure parking, according to Molly Watson, the UK’s youngest female CPC holder.

Food processors and warehouse professionals often require creative pallet racking solutions in order to be most effective and profitable due to seasonal cycles such as the harvest, consumer demand, and other logistical concerns.

With Brexit now a done deal, and Britain no longer a part of the European Union, many businesses that conduct trade with customers in EU member states are struggling to adapt following the eleventh hour trade deal agreed on 24th December; mere days before the end of the transition period on New Year’s Eve.

TRL (Trailer Resources Ltd) the Hertfordshire-based contract hire and rental specialist, has supplied 10 Krone Dry Liner box vans to Europa Worldwide Group for its fast-expanding click and collect operation.

Palletways, an Imperial Group company and European express palletised freight network, recruited 20 new members during 2020, a record number for the expanding company.

After recent research from BNP Paribas Real Estate found that 13.5 million of buildings over 100,000sq ft had already been taken up in Q3, international freight forwarder, W.E. Deane has freed up 1000 pallet spaces at their Barking depot in the UK in order to further accommodate the incoming surplus that is expected over the holiday season.

Food processors and warehouse professionals often require creative pallet racking solutions in order to be most effective and profitable due to seasonal cycles such as the harvest, consumer demand, and other logistical concerns.

It was a fairytale ending for Prince, the commemorative pit pony sculpture who needed to make his 200-mile journey ‘home’ to Britain’s deepest seam mine at Chatterley Whitfield, an industrial time capsule near Stoke-on-Trent.