Although rail freight is growing it has struggled to keep up with the overall rise in transport activity, but, says Malory Davies, there is now the promise of more access for bigger loads at lower cost.
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Gazeley has acquired 16 acres at Birch Coppice in the Midlands, where it intends to develop a 380,000 sq ft speculative warehouse.
ColorMatrix has chosen TNT to distribute its colourants for the plastics industry in a deal worth £1m each year.
TNT Freight Management has completed the first phase of Cargo 2000’s air cargo quality management system, at its sites in London, Chicago, Gothenburg, Malmo, New York and Stockholm.
RedPrairie has bought GEOCOMtms, which designs fleet management software, for an undisclosed sum.
Hundreds of residents rejoiced after controversial plans to build a rail freight terminal on the former Radlett Aerodrome just outside St Albans were rejected, according to the report in the “St Albans Observer” last month.
Hauliers adopting a wait and see approach to installing digital tachographs could be costing the industry up to £2.
All rail freight services in Europe were opened up to competition from 1 January.
ProLogis is to go ahead with the development of a speculative warehouse scheme in Kent, which it acquired as part of portfolio of properties when it took over Astral’s parent company Parkridge, earlier this year.
Pallet network Fortec saw traffic volume rise 15 per cent last year – equal to an additional 65,000 pallets.
