Haulmark on rails again
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• Haulmark—the intermodal company British Rail closed last year—started international services again last week after a relaunch under its new owner, travel group Hogg Robinson.
In the first skeleton service since this year's takeover, the intermodal services company administered a small fraction of the 11,000 containers a year it had carried under BR ownership.
Haulmark was closed in September last year after BR failed to privatise the loss-making operation. The sale of the company, which buys rail space and then sells on a road/rail service to customers, was to have been the first BR company to be sold as part of the Government's privatisation programme.
Under its new ownership, Haulmark is sub-contracting UK transport to and from railheads to around seven hauliers
around half the previous number— but refuses to name them, saying if it did "others would give them extra work".
In the deal, Hogg Robinson bought 12 swapbodies, 100 containers and Haulmark's name and logo. The company also uses leased equipment on Channel Tunnel services to France, Spain, Italy and Greece and routes to Ireland.
Haulmark joins Hogg Robinson's Transport, one of Hogg Robinson plc's three divisions. The £100 million turnover section includes the Hull-based haulier Nippress, the Dutch operator Continental Cargo Carriers and the UK air freight company HR Embassy.
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