Warehousing in the UK

Warehousing in the UK is a huge multi-million pound business. With a huge amount of goods being moved throughout the UK every day. A large amount of goods enter via imports in containers and articulated trucks all ending up in warehouses all around the United Kingdom.

There is a large amount of home grown or UK produced goods, once manufactured are then sold on and moved to other warehouses. There is huge range of goods, from food stuff, toys, clothing, leisure and electrical items, the list is endless.

Warehousing in the UK is a very diverse business, with massive warehousing on an industrial scale to small dedicated units offering more specialised facilities. Vast pallet networks transport a large amount of palliated good for both manufacturing and retail outlets.

Other warehouses such as East Dorset Storage and Warehousing Ltd store a variety of goods for companies for a number of reasons, Imports, Freight Forwarding, retail sales and pick and pack services. To support these services there are all sorts of ways of moving these goods, from haulage, dedicated truck deliveries of any size including the pallet networks to van and courier services that include the Royal Mail.

There have also been casualties within both the warehousing and haulage Industries in the last 18 months due the economic climate. But there are other problems within the warehouse industry. As it has been reported. When the new rating scheme was introduced there are a number of concerns about the impact that the legislation would have on the logistics and third-party storage industries.

It would appear that these fears were well justified, The Government’s move to scrap rate relief on empty industrial property has led many landlords to demolish perfectly sound warehouse property as a way of avoiding paying the substantial amounts of tax that unoccupied facilities now incur. Indeed, a recent report by property consultants Lambert Smith Hampton, found that owners of properties tended to wait for 12 to 18 months once a property had become vacant before making the decision to demolish it, which indicates that the speed of demolition of warehouse buildings is likely to increase in the near future. So there almost certainly will be a shortage of warehousing in the near future, at least until an upturn is being realised.