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Issue 2 2012
///IRELAND Rail investment spurs on IWT
International Warehousing and Transport (IWT) has increased frequency of the train it charters from Iarnrod Eireann (IE) between Ballina, Co Mayo, and the port of Dublin to six times a week. The forwarder initially offered two weekly services, but
demand has soared following the port’s opening of a 1.7km spur into its common user terminal in July 2011, combined
with investment by IE to lower the track at certain points on the approach to Dublin to enable high-cube containers to be moved on standard wagons. Previously, low-floor pocket wagons were needed to carry the 9ft 6in containers. The service improvements
have reduced journey time to 4.5 hours, competitive with road haulage and making it
viable for temperature-
controlled goods, according to Howard Knott, chairman of the Irish Exporters Association’s Rail Freight Group. IE will also gauge-clear lines
linking Dublin with Cork and Tralee, also seen as having intermodal potential, and has meanwhile renovated its pocket wagon fleet to open up the possibility of transporting high- cube containers elsewhere on its network.
Howard Knott receives a lifetime achievement award at a recent transport awards ceremony
Ace high on award win
Ace Express has won recognition for the fourth time in the Best Managed Companies awards scheme for Irish firms, run by Deloitte and Irish Life. The family-owned business picked up a gold standard accreditation at the 2012 awards presentation held at Dublin’s prestigious Burlington Hotel in March,
and was the only freight company to receive this accolade. MD Philip Tracey said the award was for the
company rather than any one individual, and was “a great morale boost”. Ace employs 75 people direct, and more than twice as many subcontractors.
Cashel makers cash in on export boom
Chilled and ambient food distributor Oakland International is helping a consortium of Irish cheesemakers, including the maker of the internationally renowned Cashel Blue, to access multiple retailers in the UK and beyond. Oakland has a joint venture Ireland with road transport
in
provider Caffrey International, winner of the Logistics Company of the Year title at the Irish Exporters Association’s Export Awards last November. The companies have operated
from a warehouse in Ashbourne, Co Meath, since 2009. From here
they distribute meat and dairy products to Irish food wholesaler and
retail franchise operator
Musgrave, as well as Tesco and other customers. Musgrave is the parent group
of more than 1,300 independent convenience food outlets across Ireland under the SuperValu, Centra, Mace, DayToday, DayBreak and XL Stop & Shop brands. It also runs the MarketPlace cash-and- carries, and in July 2011 bought the Superquinn chain out of receivership. In the UK, Budgens and Londis are independently owned members of the Musgrave group.
Although the primary flow of
products is inbound into Ireland, Oakland and Musgrave have come up with an all-inclusive case rate offer that enables Irish producers not currently exporting to the UK, such as Irish Cheese Direct, to reach new markets. Under this scheme, producers
can deliver direct to Oakland or Caffrey will collect from them. Stock is consolidated both at Ashbourne and at Musgrave’s warehouse in Fonthill, near Dublin, and Caffrey gets a backload into the UK with daily delivers depot.
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