Freightliners to fight back
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FREIGHTLINERS, t British Rail container si sidiary, is planning to fii hack against hauliers in UK container market, inch ing the chilled sector.
Its marketing directs Clive Durrant said that wh road is used at both ends c rail journey, Freightline profit levels are at the low throughout its business.
Freightliners only takes of one per cent of the a tainers travelling under I miles in the UK, and the a is to try to capture the joi neys where the rail haul over 220 miles, he said. In Seventies, Freightliners I: competed well over 1 miles, he said.
The extension of t motorway system and the creased use of 38-ton vehicles have made road : creasingly productive.
So Freightliners is planni to tap into the huge marl for refrigerated containt carrying chilled produt from around the world.