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A RAIL-FREIGHT service across the north of England is expected
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to divert more than 600,000 miles of HGV journeys away from the roads.
Rail-freight operator EWS began running daily trains be twcenTeesport,Middlesbrough and Trafford Park, Manchester, three months ago.
Martyn Pellew. group development director of PD Ports, Logistics and Shipping. which runs Teesport, says it handled the equivalent of 50,000 miles of truck traffic in the first month.
But Pellew claims that local container specialists such as Bulmers Logistics are unlikely to lose out because much of the traffic is being diverted from congested ports on the Soutl East coasts.
-This will potentially attract traffic for hauliers as well as I the North-East," he adds. "We a service to truck drivers when can be loaded and out within 3( utes when it will often take yot to five hours at Southampton.'
Teesport doubled its cont capacity last year.