Woodland Group partners with iPort Rail New rail freight service to Doncaster begins
Woodland Group, one of the UK’s largest privately owned logistics companies, has today launched new rail freight connected services at iPort Rail, Doncaster. The service begins this month and moves containers between ports of Felixstowe and Southampton with further services to London Gateway and Immingham to follow. By May more than 140 container movements are expected per month. The move comes after Woodland Group opened a 195,000 sq ft fulfilment and distribution facility at the 800-acre multimodal
Speculative development hat trick completes at Doncaster’s iPort
Verdion has completed the final letting in its current round of speculative development at its iPort multimodal logistics hub in Doncaster. A luxury homeware retailer has taken the 119,060 sq ft (11,061 sq m) warehouse iP2g, which offers space for up to 12,194 pallets with 12.5 m clear headroom and a 55 m deep yard. This deal is the third and final unit in Verdion’s most recent tranche of speculative development at iPort. iP2c was let to local printing specialists Kingsbury Press, while iP2e was let
Doncaster firm takes on property management at iPort
Doncaster-based property consultancy group, Barnsdales has been appointed as the new property and facilities manager of logistics hub, iPort. iPort is the UK’s most advanced multimodal logistics hub, helping companies such as Amazon, CEVA, Fellowes, Lidl, Maritime Transport, Woodland Group and Kingsbury Press distribute goods across the UK. Barnsdales will play a key role in ensuring the continued growth and success of iPort, which will boast more than 6 million sq ft of logistics space when completed,