Rail
Container maker Modalis has unveiled a Butterfly open-top 20-ft swap body for bulk consignments. The fruit of a collaboration with Belgian design firm Agesia, the patented design has an automated roof and is made from recyclable composite panels. It aims to address the limitations of current open-top swap bodies - models with tarpaulin roofs are slow and tedious to open, while those with a hard top are complicated to handle ...
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Organisers of the Multimodal exhibition in Birmingham have opened visitor registrations for the 2025 event, which takes place on 17-19 June at the NEC.
Multimodal is launching an AI Clinic on the main floor of the event which aims to be a ‘one stop shop’, debunking ...
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GB Railfreight (GBRf) says that its latest type of locomotive will operate solely on electricity or renewable fuels such as HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil). The Class 99 is due to enter service in late 2025 and will be the first heavy-haul freight locomotive capable of ...
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Peel Ports Group investing £30million in a new in-riverro ro berth at Sheerness.
The in-river vessel berth and floating pontoon developed will increase capacity for wheeled cargo and cater for larger vessels exceeding 230 metres overall length.
Expected traffic are automotive, paper reels and timber, construction machinery ...
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DP World says its Modal Shift Programme in Southampton to encourage container shippers to switch from road to rail has removed 64,300 truck journeys from UK roads and cut carbon emissions by more than 17,000 tonnes in its first year.
Under the programme, launched in Septmeber ...
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Logistics UK has welcomed news that the new East-West rail route will allow up to 14 new freight services to operate in each direction between the Felixstowe and the Midlands. It was responding to the launch of a two-month public consultation on the scheme.
East-West Rail ...
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In a surprise move, DFDS has completed the acquisition of the international transport network of Turkey-based Ekol Logistics, having earlier this month saying it had abandoned its bid due to a failure to reach contractual conditions by the agreed deadline.
The Danish-owned ferry and logistics company ...
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The annual cost of congestion on the Strategic Road Network for HGVs increased by almost £1 billion between 2015 and 2024, according to new research commissioned by Logistics UK.
In its report, The UK Logistics Network by transport economists MDS Transmodal launched on 12 November, the ...
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GB Railfreight (GBRf) is to relaunch a daily service between the Port of Felixstowe and Daventry from 11 November. It will run five days a week and will be the rail company’s 17th daily service from the port and its 54th nationally. GB Railfreight piloted ...
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The London Legacy Development Corporation has approved an outline masterplan to regenerate over 30 acres of brownfield land at Bow Goods Yard, East London, into a rail freight campus and last mile logistics hub. The site is the final parcel of London 2012 Olympic and ...
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