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Telford lorry driver Jim Rushton, accused of bringing illegal immigrants into the UK, has had a £10,000 fine overturned by the Home Office, the BBC reports. He was fined when five stowaways were found after he left Calais on 12 January but has always maintained his vehicle had been checked stringently, including a heartbeat monitor which failed to detect anyone on board.
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Trouble is again brewing on the roads of France, reports the Freight Transport Association.
Motorway blockades and protests at fuel refineries have led to dozens of petrol stations near Calais running dry and truck drivers have been struggling to fill their tanks.
FTA warns that the problem is expected to get ...
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French rail SNCF's VIIA logistics arm announced a new service from Italy to the UK during Multimodal. Following the announcement in March this year of a route from the Spanish-French border to Dover via Calais, a further new service will transport unaccompanied trailers by rail between Orbassano (near Torino) and ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is warning the UK and French governments not to allow demonstrations planned in Calais this weekend to be the trigger for another summer of discontent on the French coast.
FTA says it has been alerted to possible disruption caused by a demonstration due be held on ...
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The new piggyback service from southern France to Calais will now start on the evening of 29 March. The VIIA Britanica service, from Port Bou on the Spanish-French border and Calais, which was originally due to go into operation on 12 January, was postponed due to security concerns in Calais. ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has drawn up an action plan to tackle problems at the Port of Calais. It came as Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande met in Amiens to discuss the migrants crisis on 3 March.
The five-point plans includes moving the migrant camp away ...
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The Freight Transport Association says a French court ruling allowing part of the Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp to be cleared is a step in the right direction, but not the complete solution. In particular, it urged the authorities not to allow similar camps to spring up elsewhere. There has been ...
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The Road Haulage Association has welcomed efforts by Xavier Bertrand, President of France’s Nord-Pas-de-Calais region to demolish part of the migrants ‘Jungle’ camp.
Hundreds of migrants living in the southern part of the camp near the port of Calais have been ordered to leave.
RHA chief executive Richard Burnett said: “We welcome ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is today (17 February) calling for urgent action to protect trade links between the UK and Europe when it meets with Xavier Bertrand, new president of the Nord Pas de Calais Picardie region.
Mr Bertrand called the meeting in Calais with transport stakeholders including the ...
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Road Haulage Association chief executive Richard Burnett has written to French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, insisting that he acts urgently on his recent commitment to maintain law and order in the Calais area. This follows the incident at the weekend in which migrants stormed on board a ferry, resulting in ...
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