DB Schenker concerned about UK intermodal competitiveness

Rail operator DB Schenker Rail UK still has worries over the competitiveness of the UK’s deep sea container (DSC) rail transport markets regardless of commitments from rival Freightliner to tackle anti-competitive arrangements in its favour.

Freightliner will have to work to reduce barriers to competition in the markets for DSC rail transport between the ports of Felixstowe, Southampton and Tilbury and inland destinations in Yorkshire and the North West of the UK.

However, the commitments do not go far enough according to Geoff Spencer, CEO at DB Schenker Rail UK, who highlighted capacity constraints in two of the afore-mentioned ports and the absence of London Gateway.