Peifood rail depot opens
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UMB Freights (Welwyn opened a V million rail/ma distribution centre at Welwy Garden City, Hertfordshir on Tuesday when its fin load of traffic, one milli° tins of pet food, arrived.
The traffic, from Pedigre Foods, is then distributed i South-East England by Sin folk-based Taylor,Barnar Services, with a Welwyn Gai den City total local fleet of 1 vehicles — Scania 32.5s an 38-tonne tractive units an trailers and 16-tonne MAI' curtainsiders.
Twenty-five to thirty lorr loads will be moved each da) Pedigree is Britain's largei manufacturer of prepared pt foods. A 500-tonne train loa arrives at Welwyn from Pe& gree's Melton Mowbray plar each weekday.
UMB's new depot is ex pected to deal with aroun 100,000 tonnes of business an nually on top of its contra( with Pedigree.