Co-op rail freight network ‘big success’ [Retail Gazette]
Date: 29/09/2013
The Co-operative Food is looking to expand its rail freight network and further reduce the number of lorries on the road, after cutting carbon emissions by 500 tonnes of CO2 per year. The Co-operative’s Logistics Service, which transports more than 1,050 cages every week, say its use of rail has more than doubled in the last three years, and now more than a quarter of The Co-operative’s produce between Coventry and Scotland is transported via rail in a number of new Co-operative-branded containers. A daily rail service is carrying more than 21 containers of produce every week between Daventry, close to the Group’s National Distribution Centre at Coventry, and a rail freight terminal at Mossend, near to its depot at Newhouse, on the outskirts of Glasgow.
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The Co-operative Food is looking to expand its rail freight network and further reduce the number of lorries on the road, after cutting carbon emissions by 500 tonnes of CO2 per year. The Co-operatives Logistics Service, which transports more than 1,050 cages every week, say its use of rail has more than doubled in the
