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P&O and partners offer Poland rail link

[ June 13, 2017   //   ]

P&O Ferrymasters has joined forces with logistics company Erontrans to launch an intermodal rail service linking the UK, Benelux and central Poland via Europoort in Rotterdam.

The two companies have selected Europoort-based LTE Netherlands as rail carrier for the service, which offers four trains per week each way between Europoort–Rotterdam and the CLIP terminal in Swarzedz-Poznan.

Capacity per departure is 36 trailers of up to 28 tonnes payload. The trains are purpose-designed for huckepack trailers but containers including 45’ units can be carried on request. Transit times are four days to/from the UK and two days for Benelux. Equipment to and from the UK will be transhipped from train to ferry and vice versa at the P&O Ferries terminal in Europoort.

Train capacity is shared equally between P&O Ferrymasters and Erontrans. They say that the dedicated train concept minimalises and that the arrangement provides in-house possibilities for onward shipping.

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