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The economic and environmental imperatives for UK shippers and importers to switch inland distribution from road to rail are becoming increasingly hard to ignore, according to senior staff at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT).
Julian Worth, chair of CILT’s rail freight forum, told delegates at the inaugural session of today’s Multimodal event in Birmingham that moving containers from the UK’s ports to a rail-connected warehouse in the country’s “Golden Triangle” – the area in the Midlands that houses ...
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Bobulus
July 08, 2017 at 3:08 pmI notice there is a remarkable absence of rail connected warehouses and distribution depots in the UK. They are about as common as Fairy Dust! Network Rail seems eager to sever connections if a freight flow ceases. But I bet logistics executives are locked into a “rail is a non starter” script. Then there are the UK planing laws which can scupper the most minor development. Any more ideas about the myriad of obstacles here?