- Saddle Creek has opened a high-volume cross-dock facility at its Lakeland, Fla., headquarters. It will use the 98,600-square-foot building to serve a perishable foods customer as well as to provide room for a future client. The design of the new facility is expected to increase labor productivity by 15 to 20 percent.
- DHL has a new facility at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport. The $1.6 million on-airport operation features improved material handling equipment for aircraft container loading and unloading and is 25 percent larger than the carrier's previous building.
- Children's toy manufacturer Lego has opened a new distribution center in Roanoke, Texas. The 405,200-square-foot facility, which is being managed by Exel, employs more than 120 people.
- MHW Group has opened a new public refrigerated cold-storage warehouse in Perrysville, Md. The 42,000 pallet-position building is located midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
- Lauth, a real estate development company, has closed on the land for a new distribution park near Indianapolis. The 555-acre site in Plainfield, Ind., will be known as the Westpoint Business Park. Ten distribution buildings featuring over 7.1 million square feet of distribution space are planned for the site.
- CSX is developing plans for an intermodal terminal and integrated logistics center near Winter Haven, Fla. The 1,250-acre facility is expected to create 200 permanent jobs.
- Menlo Worldwide, a subsidiary of Con-way Inc., has opened a new facility at the AMB Douglassingel Distribution Center near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The 70,000-square-foot building, which is designed for multiple clients, will serve as the company's new European headquarters.
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