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Freightliner Group has been put on sale by its owners Arcapita, according to recent press and newswire reports. Bahrain-based Arcapita bought the company in 2008, and it may fetch as up to £400 million pounds ($630 million), according to the Wall Street Journal.
Freightliner Group is the main rail haulier of containers in the UK and also has operations in Europe following its purchase of European Container Services from shipping ...
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Freightliner has completed an order for 64 twin-platform Ecofret container wagons from VTG Rail UK. The Ecofret wagons, used together with the existing 60ft wagon fleet, provide a better 40ft/20ft mix and longer trains, virtually elimating the wasteful 20ft gaps common on traditional intermodal trains.
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Freightliner is to switch its services to the Middlesbrough area from its inland site at Wilton to Teesport once PD Ports completes a £3 million new rail terminal.
Construction of a new, open access rail terminal by PD Ports will commence in July and once complete it will handle services ...
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VTG Rail UK has signed hire agreements for its Ecofret container wagons with Freightliner and GB Railfreight.
Freightliner has ordered 21 sets of twin-platform Ecofret wagons to add to its existing fleet of 43 twins, whilst GBRf has placed orders for 17 triple-platform sets which will join the existing triple with ...
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Freightliner says it will launch new daily services from London Gateway following the recent announcements by Hapag Lloyd and Hamburg Sudto start regular calls calls at the new port from May 2014. Services will run to Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.
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London Gateway handled its first scheduled vessel, the ‘MOL Caledon’ from South Africa on 7 November, the culmination of over a decade of planning and construction on three square miles of development on the Essex bank of the Thames.
The port's owner, DP World, says that London Gateway is closer to ...
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The UK's five major rail freight operating companies - DB Schenker Rail UK, Freightliner Group, GB Railfreight, Direct Rail Services and Colas Rail - and infrastructure operator Network Rail have formed the Rail Freight Alliance. Endorsed by the Rail Delivery Group industry grouping, it aims to delivering whole-industry cost savings, ...
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Rail freight operator Freightliner also answered the call to move containers for the Midlands unloaded from the Zim Rotterdam from the new London Gateway port import containers destined for the Hams Hall terminal in the Midlands. A Freightliner train arrived at the port at 10am on 30 September, to load ...
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Freightliner Group has appointed Russell Mears as group chief executive from 30 September, succeeding Peter Maybury, who will retire from the position but remain with the company as chairman. Russell Mears is currently chief financial officer for the group and has worked with Freightliner since privatisation in 1996.
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Freightliner has taken delivery of its new ‘Shortliner’ wagons and has launched its first services with them. The 40ft deck length, two platform wagons are more efficient because they minimize the amount of unused train space, increasing the number of 40ft containers carried compared with a train of the old ...
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