Government must embrace warehousing as ‘engine for growth’

Funding for programmes to drive innovation in logistics and encourage young people into the sector must be included in the Government’s upcoming spending review, the UK Warehousing Association said today [Monday, 10 February].

In a submission to the Treasury, the leading membership body for the warehousing industry called for the Generation Logistics programme, which has been supported by the Department for Transport to change perceptions of careers in the ar…