The European rail freight carrier industry has had as tough a two year period as the worldwide freight carrier industry, but over in the United Kingdom Hams Hall just had its most important year in the history of the firm. In fact, their business just had the best year in the history of the company and they’re looking toward growing their business even more in 2010 and beyond. Hams Hall is operated by Associated British Ports (ABP), a firm that has apparently done pretty well compared to other rail freight carriers in Europe during the downturn in freight business.
During the last year Hams Hall has been adding new freight trains, with 15 new freight trains making the journey to destination every week. Hams Hall isn’t the only rail freight carrier that has been adding lines as Norfolk Line just began a bi-weekly service to Novara, using the Channel Tunnel and in September the first temperature-controlled rail freight train made the journey, something that hasn’t been seen for a few years.
This is a great sign for the European rail freight carrier industry, being able to grow business and infrastructure during times of financial instability and improve services for customers says a lot for the strength of the industry. There are even people who think that the adding of these freight lines removes a significant amount of carbon emissions from the air of Europe, but this of course has to be determined. The United Kingom appears committed to rail freight as the way they want to go with freight transport and with the moves the European freight industry has seen recently, they appear to be serious.
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