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The House of Commons Transport Select Committee has added its voice to industry calls for a rethink on planned EU ship emission limits. MPs have called on the UK government to negotiate to ensure the EU Directive goes no further than the revised MARPOL agreed in 2008, in a report examining the draft EU directive.
Launching 'Sulphur emissions by ships', committee chair Louise Ellman, said : "We endorse the Government’s support ...
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The industry broadly welcomed the McNulty report on the future of the railways published on 9 March, but warned that the needs of rail freight operators should not be forgotten. The report, which was mainly concerned with passenger services, demanded better value for money from the rail industry.
The Freight Transport ...
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The Haven Gateway Partnership has launched a Low Carbon Freight Dividend project that will offer financial incentives for smaller firms to switch container movements from road to rail. The scheme, which enjoys nearly £3 million of support from the European Regional Development Fund will operate for three years with firms ...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on the EU to postpone its planned Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for aviation. Director general Tony Tyler said in a speech on 6 March that non-European states see the ETS as an attack on their sovereignty.
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Stena ferry services between Birkenhead and Belfast have been disrupted following a collision between one of its ferries and the Union Moon freighter in Belfast Lough, the BBC reported. There are no reports of any injuries and the Stena ferry has now docked at the Stena terminal while the Union ...
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The International Transport Workers Federation has relaunched it joint action with the International Trade Union Confederation on worker conditions at DHL ahead of the release of the freight giant's financial results on 8 March, including a new website, Respect at DHL (www.respectatdhl.org). The unions want DHL to guarantee the same ...
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The UK express freight industry is overstuffed with competitors, with the result that the industry is making a net loss, the new City Link boss told a press conference on 7 March. Dave Smith, who took over as managing director of City Link last December, said: “If you add up ...
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The port of Dover has replaced its Clearway Community System Provider (CSP) with the Pentant CusLink Inventory System for clearance of all third country freight.
Pentant was formed by former CNS executives Phil Waldron, Derek Dubber and freight industry IT sepecialist Martin Goodwin. It describes its flagship Culink product as “a ...
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Mozambican Labour Minister Helena Taipo has cancelled the work permit of Renand Jean Louis Sirex, the financial director of French-owned logistics company SDV AMI-Mocambique, accusing him of racist attitudes towards local workers. Allafrica.com, citing a Mozambique Labour Ministry press release, said that Sirex had been accused of repeatedly insulting Mozambican ...
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Hull-based container and general haulier A R Lunn Transport has gone into administration. The company operated a fleet of 102 articulated artics from a 7.5-acre site near the port, the BBC reports. Administrator Price Waterhouse Coopers confirmed that 115 jobs would be lost.
Source: BBC
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