Shipping a container can be very expensive but the cost is mostly dictated by the container size, not by its weight and now Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) has come up with the formula to fit more cars into a container with Trans-Rak vehicle racking systems. WMG, the industrial innovations...

Racking, stacking and packing different sized vehicles into a shipping container can be a challenge but with a little lateral thinking and R-Raks from Trans-Rak it’s a case of problem solved. Our customer Cargo Marketing Services told us in words and pictures just how their first shipment ...

Trans-Rak's re-useable racking systems for transporting finished vehicles in containers, have attracted strong interest from visitors to a recent exhibition promoting the Chongqing Freight Container station, which will eventually become the largest in-land container station in the world. The...

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the launch of its racking systems this year, Trans-Rak has commissioned a major research project with Loughborough University, to prepare for the decades ahead. A pioneer in steel vehicle-racking systems, Trans-Rak, is working with the next generation of...

Recent dramatic events in the shipping world have highlighted the vulnerability of cargo stored unsecured on deck. While these incidents are thankfully rare it does raise the issue of containerisation to protect valuable finished automotive units. Rather than write off millions in damaged ve...

Trans-Rak's re-useable racking systems for transporting finished vehicles in containers, have attracted strong interest from visitors to a recent exhibition promoting the Chongqing Freight Container station, which will eventually become the largest in-land container station in the world. The...

Shipping costs for cars in containers were once perceived to be far more expensive than Ro-Ro; but a new study illustrates that this is not necessarily the case anymore and that there are clear advantages to containerisation, both in terms of transit speed and safe delivery. “Historically,...

Nissan South Africa are now using R-Raks to ship Pick-ups from South Africa to Dubai. This operation started trials in February and is now up to full volume. The R-Rak enables the loading of three large pickup trucks in a 40ft High Cube container by Nissan's logistics provider BIDVest Panalp...

The R-Rak features in the East Africa Safari Classic Rally on Top Gear. The Short 4-part documentary follows the Tuthill Porsche race cars on their epic journey to Kenya. With the aid of the R-Rak system Tuthill Porsche were able to ship four of their high value race cars in on container sa...