Segro, a UK property investment and development company, signed a 25-year lease contract with Maritime Transport that will operate the Strategic Rail Freight Interchange at Segro Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway and will base their Rail Headquarters at the site.
The 22.5-acre rail terminal will be capable of handling up to sixteen 775m-long freight trains daily and will provide storage capacity for over 5,000 TEU.
A purpose built 20,000 sq ft office will become the Rail Headquarters under the “Maritime Intermodal” division and will house operations staff, state-of-the-art training facilities and parking for a fleet of up to 100 trucks.
Completion of the rail freight terminal is expected in late 2019 and the office element in Summer 2020.
This is the first rail freight interchange in the East Midlands and will connect to the Castle Donnington freight line, providing direct access to the UK’s network of Rail Freight Interchanges and all major UK Ports.
Rail freight carries more than £30 billion (EUR 34 billion) of goods around Britain each year and is more carbon efficient than road freight, with each tonne of freight transported by rail cutting carbon emissions by 76% compared with road haulage.
Segro Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway has planning consent for up to 6,000,000 sq ft of logistics accommodation, a third of which is already under contract.
The site is strategically located in the near centre of England with Nottingham 21 km to the north-east, Leicester 32 km to the south and Derby 22.5 km to the north west.
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