Workers at Felixstowe, which handles half of the country's container cargo, are walking out for eight days.
(Permalink) Containers Felixstowe Railfreight Strike Unite

The traditional view of rail freight is of long trains carrying heavy bulk commodities - coal, stone, minerals. As some of these traffics have declined, a consequence of wider government policies such as the switch to less carbon-intensive sources of energy, containerised freight has come to dominate.
(Permalink) Containers Intermodal Railfreight

Rail Freight Group (RFG) has welcomed news that the North Transpennine route is to be upgraded to allow containers to be moved by rail. The plans were confirmed in the Integrated Rail Plan, published yesterday by the Department for Transport. It states that gauge clearance, allowing shipping containers to move on rail wagons, will be undertaken as part of the first phase of the Northern Powerhouse Rail project. Currently, the major freeports on the East Coast and West Coast of England, including Humber, Tees and Liverpool are not able to move containers by rail to the cities across the north of England.
(Permalink) Containers Gauge clearance Humber Liverpool Railfreight Tees

New technology to transfer long-distance lorries from motorways to railways is set to revolutionise the movement of freight and free up congested road networks. [Full article requires subscription. -RS]
(Permalink) Containers Green Railfreight