Rail collaboration secures supply chain
Sweden's grocery chain ICA will use the Volvo Group’s freight train to transport goods. Southbound trains operated by the Swedish carrier Green Cargo normally transport Volvo’s freight from Sweden to a factory in Gent (Belgium). For the last six years, the Swedish logistics company Scanlog has used northbound trains to transport cargo such as food for ICA. However this train has not run since Volvo’s truck factory in Gent closed.
ICA and Volvo, in a partnership with Scanlog and Green Cargo, are now putting the train back into service even though there is currently no freight to ship south. The collaboration means that two 19-wagon trains will ship the equivalent of 80 truckloads of goods from Gent to ICA’s warehouses each week from now on. (ben)