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£2.6m boost for Teesside freight services

A £2.6m rail terminal is set to be built on Middlesbrough’s Riverside Park estate to service growing levels of business and traffic sailing up the River Tees.

Logistics and supply chain specialists AV Dawson has secured planning permission for the development with work planned to begin later this year in a bis to drive new business.

Companies using the intermodal terminal will benefit from a direct link to the East Coast Main Line as well as AV Dawson’s freight facilities including its Ayrton Railhead, North Sea Supply Base and Dawsons wharf quays on the adjacent River Tees.

Gary Dawson, managing director of AV Dawson, said: “There has been a sustained push towards moving freight by containers for some time now because of the benefits it brings in terms of lower shipping costs and cuts to shipping time.

“From our perspective, our ability to move goods by road, rail and sea places AV Dawson in a prime position to handle container traffic.”

Industry experts are predicting an upturn in the market will witness growth in global container traffic of 7.1% over the next five years.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .