PD Ports has launched a dedicated rail freight service between Teesport and Doncaster in partnership with GB Railfreight, for its major customer Containerships – Intra-European leader of multimodal transport.
The new service is responding to the growing demand for Teesport as the Northern UK gateway for trade which continues to see year-on-year growth across its container platform. The twice-daily rail service removes 120 daily road movements from the heavily congested UK road network – a journey of 90 miles each way per vehicle. In this way also reducing CO2 emissions and increasing sustainability, one of the major strategic targets of Containerships.
Containerships’ confidence in PD Ports’ capability to deliver a reliable service to its end customer was cemented during a four-week trial period this spring. The service carries 56 boxes per day in two trips, outward journey from Doncaster – Darlington – Teesport and returning from Teesport – Yarm – Doncaster. The end customer, IKEA Transport & Logistics Services has high expectations of the supply chain’s performance.
“To us delivery accuracy is of key importance. At the same time, we have a very ambitious decarbonising agenda and actively seek to reduce our environmental impact wherever possible. To shift from trucks to trains is one way of reducing the number of shipments and fuel used per shipment,” says Elisabeth Munck af Rosenschöld, Head of Sustainability, IKEA Transport & Logistics Services.
Jari Lepistö, Chief Commercial Officer at Containerships, is very positive about this new service:
“Reliability and sustainability are core values for Containerships and its customers. We were looking for reliable partners to move large amounts of cargo with increased volumes coming from the Baltics in a sustainable way. We needed an effective daily plan to move containers to Doncaster when satisfying one of our major customers, IKEA Transport & Logistics Services’ environmental targets.”
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