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Article: Freight firm sees future in green trains.(Shipping)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- November 5, 2009
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LONDON, Nov. 5 (Reuters) – British freight company Stobart Group Ltd is on track to go green, its chief operating officer said, after the company's first refrigerated train carrying fruit and vegetables arrived in the U.K. from Spain. Stobart is one of Britain's biggest haulage and logistics companies, with air, port, road and rail operations.The new train can carry up to 30 refrigerated equivalent trucks-worth of oranges, lemons, tomatoes and salad, from fields in Valencia to the Ford Dagenham railhead in Essex in about 58 hours – 12 hours more quickly than a similar lorry trip.Over a year that once-a-week journey can save 8,625 tonnes of carbon dioxide ...