Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has historically contracted suppliers to move its domestic stock between manufacturing plants in Wakefield, and sites located in South East England including Edmonton, Tilbury, Sidcup, and Dagenham.

These high-volume stock transfers were a challenge to cover using a road-only solution owing to the volatile demand for their products exacerbated by the UK driver shortage having a significant effect on resource availability.

The mission was to create a sustainable alternative solution reducing emissions, whilst improving service performance to ensure availability of this critical stock.

Having distributed Coca-Cola products for CCEP, by road, for nearly a decade, Maritime launched a new rail service on their behalf over a period of six challenging months, moving stock six days per week between these sites.

Commencing during a period of unprecedented strike action on the rail network, the solution required Maritime to create bespoke intermodal units, modified to meet the demands of CCEP’s stringent safety requirements.

This rail service, which sees 31% of CCEP’s total product volume destined for Yorkshire now distributed via rail, is on course to remove over 5,000 tonnes of CO2, replacing almost 15,000 lorry journeys or four million road miles from the congested road network each year.