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Clare Bottle, the new Chief Executive of the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA), has written to Rachel Maclean, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, making a case for logistics workers to be exempt from self-isolation as the ‘pingdemic’ sweeps the country causing shortages of supplies.

DHL Supply Chain has been appointed by Lotus Cars to manage the car maker’s inbound-to-manufacturing warehousing and transport operations for the next five years.

Soaring demand for warehousing and distribution space is making Merseyside a property hotspot, according to specialist property agents B8 Real Estate.

The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has announced at its Annual General Meeting today that Clare Bottle FCILT has been appointed as the organisation’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective from 1 July 2021.

By Jon Walkington, Retail and System Integrator Sales Director, at Schoeller Allibert UK.

For many brands operating today, warehousing and distribution has never been more closely tied to a brand or retailer’s commercial performance.

A new report into the size and make up of the UK warehousing sector, commissioned by the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) and produced by Savills, has highlighted major growth in the sector and seismic shifts in occupier profile over the last six years.

The report, titled ‘The size and make up of the UK warehouse sector’, was first published by UKWA in 2015, following research by Savills to create a comprehensive database of all existing warehouse units in Great Britain over 100,000 sq ft.

New data has revealed a significant shortfall in warehousing space UK wide despite 12.7 million sq ft of speculative space having already been delivered or due for completion later this year.

Material handling equipment manufacturing is an incredibly lucrative industry as it supplies equipment to many different commerce and engineering-based markets. Forklifts are used extensively in the warehousing and distribution industry, manufacturing, and construction.

Dakota Integrated Solutions spoke with Lee Kuempfel, Marketing Coordinator at UltraVision, to find out how Dakota has worked with him and his Team to implement product labelling solutions within their manufacturing and warehousing operation.

In recent years, the rise of the term Industry 4.0 has brought automation into new areas of traditional production environments. However, warehousing and intralogistics has not been as upfront in its adoption of new automation technologies to enhance operations.