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Turner says its fixed-day, weekly rail
import service from China to the UK that was relaunched in mid-March has
achieved a new record transit time.
The move comes as the company
foresees more Asia-Europe air and sea freight traffic switching to rail freight
amid the coronavirus pandemic, and later this could spark a trend to revise
supply chains in a post Covid-19 world.
Supply
chain services head Tony Cole
said: "While air freight and ocean freight shipments face significant
capacity and schedule issues, the first consol container that left China after
we restarted our direct Express China Rail service into the UK in March arrived
and was unpacked at our Dartford freight hub after just 17 days.
"That is several days or a
full week ahead of the scheduled transit time from the Xi'an rail hub to our
Dartford depot of 24 days, and beats the previous record achieved last year of
18 days."
The weekly service that has
recommenced departs the Xi'an rail hub, directly into Duisburg in Germany.
Containers are then trucked under bond to the nearby port of Rotterdam and
transported by ferry to Purfleet, near Dartford for on-carriage by truck to
Davies Turner's distribution centre, where they are discharged, customs cleared
and the goods delivered.
Mr Cole added: "We moved one
40-foot groupage container on the first service in mid-March; but this has
already risen to two on subsequent departures. Such is the demand in the
market, I believe it could rise to three per week very soon, in addition to
full container loads.
"After we launched the
dedicated weekly direct consol service in November 2018, we saw it go from
strength to strength prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus in China.
Bookings had increased continually. So, it is great news that from the restart
of the service, it has already returned to pre-crisis levels."
Source : HKSG.
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