MSC boosts use of rail freight


Shipping line MSC has renewed its contract with UK intermodal rail freight operator Freightliner, increasing the number of containers sent by rail each year.

The renewed contract is an expansion of a service already moving 30,000 containers a year.

The increase in volumes will remove more than 6,000 additional lorry journeys from the UK’s congested road network.

The deal follows the transfer of MSC’s services at the port of Felixstowe to the newly developed, state-of-the-art Berths 8 and 9.

Freightliner MD Adam Cunliffe said; “The contract helps to support the additional capacity MSC is providing through the new berths 8 and 9 at Felixstowe that are able to support the new generation 14,000teu containerships.”

He said the service would be operated by Freightliner’s new PowerHaul locomotives that can pull longer trains, “enabling increases in container volumes with reduced CO2 emissions”.

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