How Excellent Sea Port Connectivity Links Doncaster and Sheffield City Region with World Trade

Thursday, 6 February 2014

Sheffield City Region offers fast, frequent rail freight links to the UK's largest container port

Through a unique combination of favourable geography, transport connectivity and rail freight infrastructure, Logistics Hub UK Doncaster provides businesses with both a 'UK central' location and excellent sea port connectivity. Focusing on Doncaster's links to the Port of Felixstowe and the east coast Humber Ports, we explain how.

Doncaster's Rail Links to the UK's Major Deep Sea Ports

Doncaster International Railport provides a vital link between Doncaster's 'UK central' location and the south of England's busiest deep sea ports. Located with close proximity to the major logistics sites in Doncaster and the Sheffield City Region, the 5 hectare (50,000 sq.m.) intermodal rail freight terminal provides locally based businesses with direct rail freight services to the ports of Felixstowe, Southampton and Tilbury.

Doncaster Rail Links to Felixstowe - the UK's Largest Container Port

5 daily round-trip rail freight services connect Doncaster to the Port of Felixstowe

Doncaster International Railport's fast, frequent services to the Port of Felixstowe provide Sheffield City Region's importers and exporters with an essential link to world trade. Felixstowe is the UK's largest and busiest container port, handling more than 3.4 million TEU's (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) per year and providing around 90 services per week to and from 365 ports around the world. ^[24]

Between Monday and Friday, Freightliner and GB Railfreight currently operate a total of 5 daily round-trip services between Doncaster and Felixstowe, totalling 20 southbound (export) and 20 northbound (import) services per week. [24]

Full details of all current rail freight services between Doncaster and Felixstowe can be found here.

Doncaster Links to the Humber Ports - 'UK Central and Portcentric'

In addition to rail connections with deep sea ports in the south of England, and unlike other inland UK deconsolidation and distribution hubs, Logistics Hub UK Doncaster offers fast road access to local ports - on the Humber - effectively providing businesses with a location that is both 'UK central' and 'portcentric'.

Each of the Humber Ports (Hull, Immingham, Grimsby and Goole) can be accessed in under 1 hour's HGV drive time, providing companies located in Sheffield City Region with direct access to the UK's largest ports complex by tonnage, and specialist capabilities including:

Hull: importation of energy goods; serving the UK's largest offshore wind farm
Grimsby: the UK's major car import terminal
Immingham: the UK's busiest port
Goole: the UK's most inland port - only 25 miles from Doncaster

Find out more about the Humber Ports here.
Find details of HGV drive times between Logistics Hub UK Doncaster and the Humber Ports here.

Logistics Hub UK Location Benefits

Logistics Hub UK Doncaster provides companies in the logistics and distribution sector with:

Available, cost-effective, large-scale logistics and distribution sites
Fast market access to the UK's major population centres
Fast, efficient, multi-modal global freight connectivity, via rail, road, sea and air

Contact Us today to find out more about Logistics Hub UK as the optimal location for your logistics or distribution operation.