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Culina promises fresh look at food logistics


Culina says it will join up the dots in the food supply chain


Issue 6 2011


is headed by managing director, Thomas van Mourik (current CEO of Culina Logistics) and operations director, Paul Steele, who has 25 years’ freight forwarding experience, the last 15 in the perishable sector. The business will initially


operate from locations at Heathrow Airport, which will provide offices and warehousing to co-ordinate air freighting operations and Valencia, in the heart of Spain’s main growing region. The company will also work


with carefully selected partners in North America, South America, Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Far East who will provide local support services. Many retailers are moving to


direct sourcing as part of a strategy to simplify their supply chains, cut lead times and gain other efficiencies. Paul Steele explains: “Producers


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ulina Group has launched a new door-to-door, multimodal


freight management service for fresh produce, horticulture and other perishable goods. Fresh


Limited aims to overcome the current disconnects in existing supply chains by offering an integrated solution from source, whatever the country, to final


delivery throughout the UK and Europe. Launched as a separate


operating business within the Culina Group, Culina Fresh Limited


Rail operator opens new route to high cubes


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irect Rail Services (DRS) has launched a rail service for high-


cube boxes from PD Ports’ Teesport container terminal to Stobart Group’s Widnes Intermodal Rail Depot. It operates five days a week using


‘SuperLow 45’ wagons capable of carrying 9’6” high high-cube containers over non-gauge enhanced and height restricted routes, opening up almost the entire UK rail network to the larger boxes. The service was initially set up to cater for P&O Ferrymasters’ traffic on


its ro ro services from Zeebrugge and Rotterdam but it will also carry other customers’ boxes. The service is capable of


carrying up to 32 containers on each train.


DRS is running high cube boxes to Stobart in Widnes


It is the second new rail


operation launched from Teesport’s rail terminal in recent months, aſter logistics company WH Malcolm and DRS started a new link between Teesport and Scotland.


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chains are too disjointed and inefficient, and to date no-one has been prepared to take ownership and responsibility for door-to- door freight management. We’ve


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identified an exciting gap in the market which we’ll be filling with a high quality service that will address those issues and offer a new benchmark solution for freight management


of temperature


sensitive goods.” From Heathrow the company


will co-ordinate worldwide door- to-door temperature controlled air transportation services for customers needing to move fresh produce, horticulture and other short shelf-life items in and out of the UK and Europe as quickly as possible. In addition to the core freight service the business will offer innovative packaging solutions and other value-added activities. The sea freight operation offers a


door-to-door, tracked service with full UK port coverage and customs brokerage. Surface freight will comprise a full set of road and rail services. Culina Fresh will also be implementing a carbon emissions reduction programme to support its


customers’ sustainability


objectives. The Group is also in the final


stages of setting up the UK logistics arm of Culina Fresh.


Green light for Teesside terminal T


eesside based logistics and port operator AV Dawson has


secured planning permission for its new intermodal rail terminal at Middlesbrough’s Riverside Park estate and plans to start work later this year. Once completed, the £2.6m AV Dawson Tees Intermodal Terminal


will have rail sidings capable of handling trains carrying


up to 80 containers, 16,000sq m of operational area and storage for up to 1,200 containers. There will be a direct link to the East Coast Main Line. AV Dawson says that it is the only the Middlesbrough able to


company in area other than PD Ports


offer loaded lifts, a service that has already led the likes of Interbulk,


Bulkhaul and UTT to sign deals to store containers at the River Tees site. Managing director Gary Dawson,


said: “By making this significant investment in developing a dedicated intermodal terminal, we are further strengthening our ability to move goods swiftly and efficiently on behalf of our clients. We see this as a major growth area for AV Dawson.”


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