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Maritime Transport green efforts recognised

[ September 14, 2026   //   ]

Maritime Transport won the Sustainability and Environmental Excellence Award at the Rail Freight Group (RFG) Awards 2026 on 10 September. It recognised delivery of one of the UK’s most ambitious decarbonisation programmes to shift more long-distance container movements from road to rail while electrifying the essential road miles that remain.

The award was presented at the annual RFG Awards Dinner at Hunton Park Hotel, Watford. This year’s event was supported by Burges Salmon and GB Railfreight.

Maritime’s winning entry set out the largest clean transport investment programme in its history, including more than £100m of private investment in rail-connected terminals, new intermodal services and capacity since 2019, alongside the national deployment of eHGVs and high-powered charging infrastructure through Maritime ZERO.

Over the same period, Maritime has more than quadrupled rail’s share of movements across its network, from around 6% to more than 25%, with new services connecting DP World London Gateway, DP World Southampton, and the Port of Felixstowe with inland terminals including Hams Hall, iPort Doncaster, East Midlands Gateway, Manchester and Northampton.

Maritime has also invested heavily in inland terminal capacity to accommodate growth, opening its Strategic Rail Freight Interchange at SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton, its ninth rail terminal in February. The 17-acre site, within the UK’s logistics Golden Triangle, can accommodate up to 16 rail services per day and store more than 2,500 TEU.

It has 38 eHGVs already in service and 56 in total being introduced during 2026, one of the country’s largest hire-and-reward eHGV fleets. Maritime is also developing one of the UK’s largest independent eHGV charging networks.

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