UK retailers look to rail for lower emissions and better efficiencies

By Martin Roebuck and Alex Lennane in Birmingham

25/04/2013

UK shippers are switching from road to rail in a bid to cut emissions and increase efficiencies, despite the “challenge” in rail matching the cost of road, visitors to Multimodal heard in Birmingham yesterday.

Justin Kirkhope, project manager, logistics strategy at The Co-Operative Food, was initially skeptical about ...

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