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In short I very much doubt it. When Thamesport opened in 1990 Evergreen were the first customer to the new terminal using vessels of about 2798/3428 teu with at least two calls a week, by 1993 they introduced their R-Class which were 4229/5300 teu, from 2005 the S-Class were introduced at 7000...

The problem with Portbury is that it's tends to be overshadowed by it's proximity to Southampton which since 1972 has enjoyed direct Asia Europe services. This attracted growth by many Japanese companies along the M4 corridor and into South Wales in the early years, and in some case these were...

MSC circulated on social media today an update on the UK domestic network...

As a complete outsider, could that lack of investment be in part due to the fact that parent was a state owned entity and may have been limited to the amount it invested in the business whilst their competitors were all owned by investment entities who were able to raise funds for new rolling...

The link is still working here Available Property Thinking about it, the clue is on the first page as the brochure on lists property available for renting/leasing rather than an inventory of the property and land the company owns and is currently in use.

Has it been transferred to Network Rail, this link Dollands Moor electrification states it's due to be electricified in a contract awarded by Network Rail. Is it reasonable to assume that only the owner would take this option. What struck me about the brochure was that many of the sites...

There is a 42 page brochure on this link. https://uk.dbcargo.com/rail-uk-en/services/available-property I haven't checked how many could be investment opportunities but it could interest more asset management companies bidding and/or a consortium like MSC and Blackrock who would then split up...

Thanks for that information, funnily enought that £330m figure is probably not for off a figure I had in mind all things considered. I'm not sure about the pronosis, in general terms I'd agree the UK freight market is not necessarily in the best place, but it also depends on how individual...

I spent of fifty years in the freight industry and have followed the developments of MSC and other shipping lines during this time. MSC is almost unique as it started with one ship in 1970 and has built it's shipping line business almost entirely through organic growth. Today is operates over...

It may all depend if DB finds a single buyer for the entire organisation, and even if they find a buyer it will likely be an investment company who will then split the company up and sell it off at a profit anyway, so it might be that DB decides it's best and most profitable exit would be to...

This is two of the reasons why I would expect a bid from Medlog/Maritime Transport who are backed by the world largest shipping line which incidentally call at Felixstowe, London Gateway Port, Southampton and Liverpool withe direct deep sea services, whilst also feedering to Greenock...

Broadly speaking yes. MSC has long term contracts with GBrF whilst their subsidiary Medlog /Martime Transport has contracts with DB Cargo so bringing them together would be bring economies of scale etc., and whilst it operates it's own trains elsewhere in Europe, the only way it could likely...

Apparently the European Commission's strict State Aid regulatory mandates have directly forced Germany's state-owned state rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, to aggressively scale back its international footprint. Following a major 2024 European Commission State Aid ruling, Brussels approved €1.9...

With the shipping company CMA CGM already owning Freightliner, I would not be surprised if MSC through it's Medlog/Maritime Transport Ltd subsidiary put in an offer to buy the business. That could then allow them negotiate a deal with Infracapital - the unlisted infrastructure equity arm of...

BBC report on the collapse which is believed to happened as a result of a collision with another ship. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ek8n17lq3o And a video showing the damage.

Hapag Lloyd expands UK Rail offering with the launch of their netw intermodal rail service delivered in partnership with Newell & Wright, DB Cargo UK, & PD Stirling connecting Southampton, London Gateway and Felixstowe with Bellshill, Scotland. The service will operate three days a week and...

I used to live opposite the Edge Hill Gridiron in the 1960's and like most of the freight lines around Edge Hill is was electrified in the very early 1960's but oddly the Bootle Branch was not touched. Whilst a small amount of electric traction appeared on the Edge Hill Circular Line hauling...

A very interesting analysis but I think it demonstrates a problem that MSC, Hapag and OOCL all historically suffer from, a shortage of empty equipment in Scotland as it's one of the few areas in the country where the export demand exceeds the import movements. My last experience of the problem...

I doubt the accuracy of the routes shown on the map are meant to matter to most of the intended market, it's a marketing tool showing the concept only.

Yes, I had forgotten that from days in shipping booking boxes on the services. Once they got Coatbridge it was not unknown for them to fail on the final delivery to Glasgow with no explanation. However, interesting to note on the map that the route is shown via Hams Hall to Mossend, not...