Freightliner Group
Freightliner is a British railway company, the freight transport - in particular the transport of containers and bulk materials - offers. The privatized in 1996 and has since independently operated company, according to the English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS ) is the second largest provider of rail freight transport in the UK.
- 3.1 Business " Freightliner Heavy Haul "
- 3.2 Business " Freightliner Intermodal "
- 4.1 Freightliner PL
- 4.2 Freightliner DE
- 4.3 ERS Railways
- 4.4 Freightliner Australia
Development before privatization
In 1963, put the then chairman of the supervisory authority "British Railways Board " of the State Railway British Railways, Dr Richard Beeching, a report on the rationalization and modernization of increasingly loss-making British railway system. Known and criticized the report and its implementation in the following years mainly due to the radical line closures was - British railway routes with a total length of about 10,000 kilometers were abandoned.
Comparatively unnoticed was the first tentative entry of British Rail in the combined transport ( KLV).
Construction
Under the name Freightliner began to establish a network of trains to transport of containers and swap bodies between the UK centers. On November 15, 1965, the first Freightliner train from London King 's Cross to Glasgow drove.
Gradually, other compounds were added - 1966 by Garston (Liverpool ), 1967 to Cardiff and Leeds, 1968, after Southampton Millbrook and 1969 to Manchester and Birmingham. From 1970, another target was hit in Greater London with Tilbury. With the inclusion of container train connections to the ports of Felixstowe and Southampton Maritime - South additional links for international transport have been created since 1972. In subsequent years, the network has been supplemented by additional train movements - from 1974 to Barking, 1976 by Coatbridge, 1979 after Seaforth, 1983 to Felixstowe North, 1989 after Middlesbrough / Cleveland and 1993 to Thames Port (Isle of Grain, Kent). In 1972, the millionth container in the Freightliner system was promoted in September 1981 the ten millionth.
Freightliner as part of the National Freight Corporation
The initially offered as part of the range of British Rail Freightliner transports were 19 November 1968 spun off into a separate company, Freightliner Ltd.. British Rail - continue to represent the trains, but now no longer responsible for logistics and distribution - held only 49% of the shares, while the remaining 51% were transferred to the " National Freight Corporation ( NFC) ". The NFC, a profit-oriented, but at 100 % held by the British state-owned company, was founded as a result of a law adopted transport ( Transport Act 1968 ) 1968. In the largely supported by the then British Minister of Transport Barbara Castle NFC numerous other governmental British transport companies were integrated in the following years.
Freightliner as part of British Rail
In the 1970s, the unwound from British Rail freight traffic declined gradually. With responsible for this were also companies under the umbrella of the National Freight Corporation ( NFC) such as National Carriers Ltd. ( NCL). To put British Rail in the position to respond aggressively to the decline in traffic, were from about 1975 called for restructuring by British Rail and the rail unions and partially implemented by the British government. Part of this restructuring was the retransfer of the Freightliner system to British Rail, which was completed August 4, 1978.
Privatization
Also, as part of British Rail Freightliner remained a relatively independent unit. Consequently, formed Freightliner in - took place as preparation for their privatization - division of British Rail into various business units one of these units. By a passed in 1993 Railways Act, these units were converted to 1 April 1994 an independent company and put up for sale.
While the other three formed from the British rail freight sector business units ( " Mainline Freight ", " Loadhaul " and " Trans - Rail" ) all went up in the English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS ) to Freightliner Ltd made in 1996 by a management buy -out independently.
Organizational structure and transport development
In addition to the classic container transport Freightliner began in 1999 under the name Freightliner Heavy Haul also carrying bulk offer.
Business " Freightliner Heavy Haul "
In April 2001, this division was spun off as an independent company Freightliner Heavy Haul Ltd under the umbrella of the Freightliner Group.
As the first major customer was the former operator of British railway infrastructure, Railtrack, are obtained, which concluded a major contract for the carriage of gravel and other building materials with Freightliner. Among the matters covered services included the delivery of materials for the construction of Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Also in 1999, took Freightliner transport of trains for the automotive industry.
2000 was won by Blue Circle Cement again a major customer for the "Heavy Haul " division. Another company in the cement industry, Lafarge, Freightliner entrusted with the performance of freight since July 2002. Building material transported Freightliner further since 2003 for Ferndale Aggregates Ltd.
Coal, the classic Massenfrachtgut the British railways transported Freightliner since 22 December 2000. Several major contracts in this area cause Freightliner on 12 March 2003 already able to handle the 10,000 coal unit train. On 6 January 2003 Freightliner Heavy Haul was able to conclude with the East London Waste Authority signed a contract with ten-year term on the transport of household waste.
Business " Freightliner Intermodal "
The transport of containers and swap bodies continues to be a core business of the company. This area acts since April 2001 as a Freightliner Intermodal Ltd within the corporate group Freightliner Group.
Although now all four freight supplier on the UK rail market - in addition to Freightliner, these are Direct Rail Services ( DRS ), English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS ) and GB Railfreight - offer container services, Freightliner is still by far the largest supplier in this segment. The company annually transports container to the extent of more than one million TEUs.
The following terminals are operated by Freightliner Intermodal:
- Ports: Felixstowe, Seaforth, Southampton Maritime, Southampton Millbrook, Thames and Tilbury Port. Freightliner also offers connections to Belfast and Dublin. These two terminals are not operated by Freightliner, by train.
- By Freightliner operated domestic terminals: Barking, Birmingham, Cardiff, Middlesbrough / Cleveland, Coatbridge ( near Glasgow ), Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester
- By Freightliner operated independent terminals: Daventry, Hams Hall ( near Birmingham ) and Widnes
Foreign activities
Freightliner PL
Since 2006 Freightliner has expanded its business into the Polish freight market. The Polish subsidiary Freightliner PL (FPL ) is currently transported mainly coal. The first train delivered on 1 September 2007 from the coal lying in the Lublin Coal Basin mine Bogdanka in the power plant Kozienice. Meanwhile, 23 million tons of goods are transported annually. Freightliner PL uses seven leased from Angel Trains Cargo diesel locomotives EMD JT42CWRM (FPL 66001-66007 ).
Freightliner DE
Since 2007 Freightliner PL is already running on the German rail network. In the summer of 2011, the Freightliner DE GmbH ( FDE) based in Berlin, has been approved by the Federal Railway Authority as a railway company in passenger and freight transport in Germany. The focus is on the transport of bulk materials with very large private open freight cars and in the East- West transit traffic. For diesel traction type locomotives Class 66 electric locomotives and the types TRAXX E186 and E189 Euro Sprinter be used. In Germany, 1.5 million tons of cargo and in relations with Poland are transported 3.3 million tons.
ERS Railways
The Dutch company ERS Railways is since 1994 active in the combined transport and transported in containers and trailers trains on several European routes. In 2013 it was sold by Maersk Line to Freightliner.
Freightliner Australia
Freightliner Australia Pty Ltd was established in April 2007 and is admitted in the states of New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia as a railway company. In the summer of 2009, container traffic was initially started for a cotton cooperative in New South Wales and in the fall of 2010, a contract to transport 10 million tons of coal between the Hunter Valley mines and the port of Newcastle could be closed.
Locomotives
Freightliner Group currently has more than 150 operational locomotives. The largest share make it 96 in several model series new from EMD diesel locomotives procured JT42CWR (Series 66).