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We work with organisations across many sectors, treating their businesses as our own and learning about their customers and operations. We take on their challenges and work in partnership for mutual reward. It’s only by understanding our customers' supply chains that we can help to deliver their goals and ambitions.

Retail

We help retailers at every point in the supply chain, from inbound containers to e-fulfilment and home delivery.

Consumer goods

Our solutions enable manufacturers to improve productivity, achieve efficiencies and deliver excellent customer service.

Construction

Our fleet of specialist equipment delivers various materials to both private and public sector construction projects.

Defence

We have extensive experience in providing logistics solutions for land, sea and air defence manufacturers.

Energy

With safety in mind, we transport both bulk and packaged energy, chemical and petroleum products.

Public sector

Through our partnership with Serco we provide secure custodial transport and logistics support to the public sector.

Water

Our emergency water service supports large corporates and utility companies when water supply is disrupted.

Events

We keep the show on the road providing water solutions for events, festivals and concerts.

Milk and bulk food

We provide bulk storage, handling and transport solutions for agricultural products, milk and ingredients.
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Rail

Combining rail and road to deliver sustainable transport

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Wincanton’s rail transport solutions focus on providing flexible services that deliver tangible and profitable benefits to our valued customers. Rail is acknowledged as one of the most environmentally-friendly transport solutions for full loads. However, train operators are sometimes rigid in the service they deliver, placing constraints around services, available routes and volume amounts.

A team of dedicated rail specialists

Wincanton partners with all current rail freight operators across the UK, to offer a flexible, combined rail and road solution. Our door-to-door multimodal service gives customers one point of ownership across the complete journey. From source to destination, we ensure a consistent service delivered to a pre-agreed set of KPIs from start to finish.

We talk to every customer about the opportunity to move goods via rail, assessing suitability and potential cost savings at each stage. Through our extensive relationships, we look to combine customer loads to give the critical mass required to move transport from road to rail, giving both cost and carbon offset benefits. Our team of dedicated rail specialists work with all UK rail operators to manage volume fluctuations, and seek opportunities to extend new services.

Using rail transport to provide environmental savings

Wincanton provides a door-to-door service, offering a flexible combination of high quality road and networked rail solutions that deliver favourably against environmental targets, whilst ensuring value for money. With one gallon of fuel moving one tonne of product 246 miles by rail, as opposed to 88 miles by road, and one rail freight journey removing 30 trucks from the UK road network, rail is an essential consideration for every efficient supply chain today.