WAGON REPORT
by Steven Fredrick Lappage
PORTERBROOK Leasing expects deep-sea container traffic – currently more than 40% of all rail freight activity – to continue to grow. It is taking delivery of 200 FEA-G (Sgnss) intermodal flats from Greenbrier Europe.
Notably, they are standard 60ft platforms, rather than the short 40ft flats that have been in vogue in recent years.
Assembly of the fleet is being carried out in Poland by Wagony-Swidnica, with the specifications largely similar to the FEA-W (Sgnss) wagons supplied last year to Wascosa for Network Rail infrastructure duties. However, the wagons are being delivered as 100 permanently-coupled twinsets, Nos. 81 70 4663 001-5 to 200-3.