Freight Base opens a fairer route to UK road freight capacity 09-14-2026 04:21 PM CET | Logistics & Transport
Press release from: Image Line Communications Ltd / PR Agency: Image Line Communications Ltd FreightBase
The UK's light haulage fleet needs to grow by more than half within the next 18 months to keep pace with freight now arriving directly through the country's container ports, according to Department for Transport projections. Freight Base, a new online marketplace connecting freight forwarders with vetted carriers, has launched to help meet that demand, offering free and unlimited job posting, competitive quoting, and a route-matching tool designed to cut the empty running that erodes carriers' margins.
Since Brexit, container traffic that once moved through Rotterdam and Antwerp before onward distribution around the UK has shifted to arrive directly at British ports, with Southampton, Felixstowe, Immingham, Middlesbrough and Liverpool all upgraded to handle it, alongside a new wave of inland rail-served container ports including Wakefield and Northampton. That shift has moved the industry away from the traditional hub-and-spoke model toward direct van delivery from port ...