Topic: Freightliner UK

Intermodal ambitions remain sharp Freightliner UK’s new French owner comments on acquisition

The legal acquisition of Freightliner’s UK intermodal business by French shipping and logistics group CMA CGM was completed in the early hours of Friday morning.…
Bulk freight Heavy Haul Rail: new brand for Freightliner spin-off

RailFreight.com can reveal that Freightliner’s bulk freight operations will continue under a new company, Heavy Haul Rail Limited. The move follows the late-2025 sale of…
Intermodal expansion UK manufacturer wins 150 wagon order for Freightliner

Freightliner in the UK has announced an agreement with rolling stock leasing company Porterbrook for 150 brand-new intermodal wagons. The units will be built by…
NEW ACQUISITION CMA CGM acquires Freightliner UK

French shipping giant CMA CGM is expanding its intermodal portfolio with the acquisition of Freightliner UK Intermodal Logistics. “The transaction encompasses rail and road operations,…
Bringing business into the railway fold Freightliner opens doors to terminal development opportunities

Freightliner, one of the UK’s top-level rail freight operators, has launched a call to market. The company is offering surplus land at several of its…
Commercial interest UK Freightliner intermodal for sale?

Selling Britain by the box. Freightliner could be about to parcel up its intermodal rail business, in the face of commercial interest. Tim Shoveller, appointed…
'once in a generation' overhaul Britain’s railway town goes digital

The digital dawning at Crewe means the end of service for some venerable icons of the railway network. The inexorable march of digital technology has…
Rolling stock refurb and rebuild Freightliner turns to WH Davis for wagon repurposing

UK freight operating company Freightliner has engaged with specialist rail engineering company WH Davis to partner on a re-purposing project. Freightliner UK has a redundant…
waste on rail Freightliner’s first waste train reaches Ferrybridge

Styled with a modest lowercase, enfinium, a UK “energy from waste” operator, has received its first waste delivery by train at Ferrybridge. The site in…
Freightliner strengthens electric locomotive roster

UK operator Freightliner, part of the American Genesee and Wyoming corporation, has made a pair of locomotive purchases. They come from rival DB Cargo UK,…
Fuel supplier Zero offers rail freight industry absolutely nothing

Carbon-neutral synthetic diesel could be just the tonic the rail freight industry is seeking. Operators will have to radically rethink their motive power fleets to…
Freightliner chief says get costs down for sake of environment

Tim Shoveller, the chief executive of Genesee and Wyoming UK and Europe, less tongue twistingly branded as Freightliner, has bemoaned the rising cost of operating…