Mansped tries road/rail
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• United Carriers Group subsidiary Mansped is running trial intermodal services on the Continent which could one day be extended to Britain, reducing the need for UK subcontracted haulage.
The firm runs 500 high-volume trailers which are currently moved by sub-contracted hauliers. Cross-Channel movements average 100 a day.
The trial service, from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Perpignan in France, is not going to be extended to the UK as yet, says the company.
Mansped's transport and logistics manager Johan Galle says there will be a role for UK hauliers after the intro
duction of the service in Europe because: • It still has to convince its customers about the benefits of intermodal transport; • Some plants do not have rail connections; • Intermodal transport is only economic on journeys of more than 1,000km; • Spanish railways cannot handle the huckepack high-volume trailer units that Mansped had specialty designed for the trial.