Rail-based transportation of inter-national maritime containers is seeing something of a renewal in the United Kingdom. Since 2004, the forwarding company Kuehne+Nagel has chartered and operated dedicated "block trains," or unit trains, to carry containers between British ports and several inland points. It is the first forwarding company to do this in the United Kingdom. InMay, the short-sea operator GeestNorth Sea Line joined the fray by announcing the start of a dedicated container train service between the port of Tilbury and Hams Hall, in the Midlands region of England. Geest charters the dedicated train from English Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS). Kuehne +Nagel's first U.K. rail operations also involved EWS as the underlying rail carrier.
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