Suffolk Logistics firm seeks expansion 

By Liza Helps Property Editor Logistics Matters

INDEPENDENT LOGISTICS firm Hemisphere Freight Services has taken a 243,511 ft2 warehouse at Curzon de Vere’s Port One Logistics Park near Ipswich in East Anglia.

The development is the largest purchase by an independent company on the site and is scheduled for build and completion by Q1 2024.

The facility will enable the business to provide 34,750 racked pallet locations, which stack nine levels high, and an additional 8000 bulk loaded pallets on floors and mezzanines. The deal at the Port One development, comes as a response to the need for efficient warehousing space nationally in a highly competitive and advancing industry.

Hemisphere director Craig Perrin, said: “Opening this additional warehouse will enable us to continue providing a full suite of logistics services to our current customer base whilst allowing us to address the challenges that we are seeing many prospective clients endure due to the lack of available warehousing space.”

Hemisphere Freight Services already run a warehousing service from a number of sites across the country, including Felixstowe, Ipswich, Liverpool and London Heathrow.

The site will boast eight dock levellers, three of which are suitable for double decker trailers, and two 7.5 tonne hydraulic lifts for cargo and people. It will also house 6,600 ft2 of offices, equipped with showers, a canteen and a games room. The warehouse will also contain 12 EV parking spaces and 59 regular car parking spaces for staff and visitors.

Perrin said investing in the new warehouse facility will be a huge step towards Hemisphere’s commitment to reducing carbon in the Supply Chain. 

Port One is committing for all its new B8 warehouses to be carbon neutral from May 2023 and as such will be East Anglia’s first carbon neutral logistics park. The new warehouse will feature industry leading initiatives such as 80+ acres of roofing PV solar panels which will supply the warehouse needs for high speed car charging, office lighting and fork truck operation.