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The world’s largest courier, UPS, has submitted plans to build a 180,000sq ft distribution centre at the DP World London Gateway Logistics Park.

The application was received by Thurrock Council on Monday and it has been given a fast-track planning permission “determination deadline” for Monday 28 August.

The news of the UPS DC follows the official opening at the end of July of a major common user facility, which DP World chairman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem told The Loadstar would be “the ...