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Rail Minister, Wendy Morton MP and Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price visited Tesco's UK-Europe rail hub at the Port of Tilbury following the retailers £5million investment in new rail freight services. Tesco's new investment, building on £2.5m of investment in recent years, includes the introduction of a new temperature-controlled rail freight service.
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Britains biggest retailer is turning to the railways to boost both its eco-credentials and its supply chain resiliency. Will its rivals follow suit?
Last year's Christmas was a tense affair. Last-minute Covid restrictions, widespread labour shortages, and a lack of transport from Inverness to Cornwall meant everything from turkey to potatoes was at risk of running short. Each supermarket had their own way of handling it. Some slashed their ranges, others bought up lorries. Tesco, meanwhile, turned to trains. (Permalink) Railfreight Tesco |
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New year is always a time to celebrate and to look forward. Hopefully we will get on top of the latest manifestation of the Covid pandemic and can contemplate more stable times ahead.
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Direct Rail Services (DRS) has extended its partnership with UKs biggest supermarket chain. Nuclear Transport Solutions rail division has signed a new three-year deal with supermarket giant Tesco. The new deal will see DRS continue to supply, and expand, rail operations across the country in their established partnership. [See also item of the 14th. -RS]
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Tesco has partnered with Direct Rail Services (DRS) to launch a new refrigerated rail freight service from Tilbury to Coatbridge.
(Permalink) Coatbridge DRS Railfreight Tesco Tilbury  Bay Horse: One of the new refrigerated containers on the last wagon of a lightly loaded Tilbury to Coatbridge intermodal passing through Lancashire on 15th January 2022. Tesco has heavily publicised its new part ...  Bay Horse: Early days for the new Tilbury to Coatbridge intermodal service (See recent news item) and it was lightly loaded on 15th January 2022 as 88008 'Ariadne' headed north through the cutting at Forton. The ... |
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Tesco and DRS partner on a new refrigerated rail freight service that will take 40 lorries off the road for every journey it makes Helping Tesco to deliver Christmas, the service will run seven days a week and replace 7.3 million road miles with greener distribution New service supports Tescos commitment to reach net zero.
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Tesco said on Thursday it has introduced a refrigerated rail freight service to help Britain's biggest supermarket group deliver for Christmas and cut its carbon emissions.
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Tesco, Britain's biggest grocery retailer says it has beaten supply chain issues by increasing its use of rail freight. The giant retailer has told markets it has not stopped yet and intends to increase its use of trains to distribute produce by almost forty per cent. Management has credited investment in rail freight for helping []
(Permalink) Channel Tunnel Inverness Spain Tesco  Bay Horse: Knowing that a single Class 88 can haul the Tesco Express over Shap and Beattock makes the sight of two with two four wheel container wagons all the more incongruous. 88003 'Genesis' and 88007 ...  Aviemore: Scene at Aviemore following a shower of rain on the morning of 13 September 2017. Approaching from the south is DRS 66422 with the 0504 Mossend - Inverness Tesco containers.  Barton and Broughton: On the roll again after waiting in the goods loop just south of the closed Barton and Broughton station. 66419 accelerates a lengthy Tesco container northwards past the old station building on a very ... |
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