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New warehouse at London Gateway fast-tracked for completion due to surging demand

2 March 2021

DP WORLD in the UK today announces that London Gateway’s Logistics Park will fast-track the delivery of a speculative 146,000 sq ft green warehouse facility before the end of 2021 to meet the rapidly growing demand for premium warehousing space in the South East of England. This follows the letting upon completion of LG231, a 230,000 sq ft warehouse facility, to P&O Ferrymasters last year.

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Himatsingka appoints Import Services as logistics partner for the UK region

2 March 2021

Himatsingka is pleased to appoint Import Services as its logistics partner in the UK to provide retail supply chain services across their distribution network.
The partnership enables Himatsingka to take full advantage of Import Services’ new Container Port facility at Southampton Container Port, UK. This location expands by another 30,000 pallets in June this year, providing a real edge in terms of speed to market from a bonded port-centric location, for …

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High Bay Storage could be a solution to container terminal capacity issues

18 June 2019

The High Bay Storage (HBS) container terminal concept unveiled earlier this year by DP World could also help speed up hinterland supply chains.
Delegates at the TOC Container Supply Chain event in Rotterdam were today told by DP World director of global operations Patrick Bol that the system, developed in conjunction with German cargo handling technology firms Amova and SMS, could usher in a new era of port-centric logistics.
HBS, which essentially …

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Ports with vision can return to the heart of business life as new enablers of trade

16 April 2019

Despite the fact that we are living in a era in which supply chains are under a continual, and unprecedented, threat of disruption – you know the buzzwords, trade wars, Brexit, climate change – there also remain some constancies: the trading world is (mostly) connected by ships because 71% of the world’s surface is water, and ships are useless unless there are ports to serve them.
This simple fact, taken in …

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