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DB Cargo Polska and DB Cargo UK collaborate on rolling stock repurposing

News15 Oct 2024

DB Cargo businesses in the UK and Poland are joining expertise to rework a rake of special steel-carrying wagons to serve their customer Tat...

DB Cargo UK grasps the financial nettle

News7 Oct 2024

British rail freight operator DB Cargo UK has posted poor financial figures, but robustly defends its modernisation programme and is bullish...

DB Cargo UK turns to HVO to haul biomass

News7 Aug 2024

British rail freight operator DB Cargo UK is switching locomotive fuel on a huge contract from conventional diesel power to a sustainable al...

DB Cargo UK to export and import Toyota cars by rail via the Channel tunnel

News25 Feb 2022

In association with Groupe CAT, new international rail freight services for Toyota have commenced from Toton in Nottinghamshire to Valencien...

DB Cargo UK – “Freight belongs on rail!” campaign

News27 Oct 2021

DB Cargo UK is calling on the UK Government to set a legally-binding target for future modal shift...

HVO100 for DB Cargo UK

News31 Jul 2021

In a first for the UK, hybrid cars built in the English Midlands will soon be carried to continental Europe via an eco-locomotive that runs ...

Intermodal rail gaining ground in UK

News30 Jun 2021

Maritime Transport’s West Midlands terminal in Tamworth is now connected to London Gateway: second phase of Newell & Wright’s Tinsley te...

Felixstowe – two more intermodal rail services

News17 Mar 2021

GB Railfreight is connecting the port with Maritime’s Wakefield terminal, and Maritime Transport/DB Cargo connects with Maritime’s E...

HVO for DB Cargo UK

News24 Feb 2021

Tata Steel and DB Cargo UK have successfully trialled the use of 100% renewable Hydro-treated Vegetable Oil (HVO) in a Class 60 locomotive t...

London Thamesport receives first train for Tideway East

News22 Aug 2020

The first train has arrived at Hutchison Ports London Thamesport with primary tunnel precast rings for the Thames Tideway Tunnel project in ...

DB Cargo/Maritime – TSSA union to ballot members

News27 Mar 2019

TSSA is to ballot all its members at DB Cargo UK after what it calls "a complete breakdown in industrial relations" and concerns about the a...

DB Cargo UK and Maritime Transport to cooperate

News25 Jan 2019

Two of the UK’s largest freight operators have announced plans to combine their expertise to increase railfreight capacity and competition...

DB Cargo UK introduces new tracking system

News21 Nov 2018

DB Cargo UK, Britain’s largest rail freight company, has launched a new service that enables customers to view their rail freight deliveri...

DB Cargo UK opens £6M steel logistics centre

News24 Oct 2018

Over the past 12 months, DB Cargo UK has more than doubled the size of its existing facility in Knowles Road, Wolverhampton, which receives ...

DB Cargo UK green electricity deal

News16 Jul 2018

DB Cargo UK has announced that all its rail sites and offices will be powered by 100% renewable electricity thanks to a three-year agreement...

Port of Liverpool coming up on the rails

News23 Apr 2018

Peel Ports has partnered with the UK’s largest rail freight company, DB Cargo UK, to provide a new rail service for containers via the Por...