Rail freight investments welcomed

The Genesee & Wyoming Inc (G&W) intermodal affiliate has announced the launch of 25 additional rail services in GB, including two new key routes covering Felixstowe to Daventry and Southampton to Cardiff

Freightliner has introduced a new container service for Ocean Network Express between its terminals in the Port of Southampton and Coatbridge (Glasgow) using GD+ biofuel for part of the journey, and then overhead wires

The new weekly service, which ran for the first time last weekend, takes up to 120 trucks off the road

A consortium of Clean Air Power and Freightliner has secured almost £0.4M of government funding to develop a dual-fuel solution for the Class 66 locomotive, biogas and hydrogen

Maritime Transport’s West Midlands terminal in Tamworth is now connected to London Gateway: second phase of Newell & Wright’s Tinsley terminal in South Yorkshire should be ready in August; steel on the rails from Port of Sunderland

DP World UK’s facilities at Southampton and London Gateway are now accessible by maximum length container trains