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The Freight by Water group will hold a free conference on Moving freight on the Thames on 6 July. It will give the latest information on water freight services in the region and set out the Freight Transport Association’s proposals to improve market conditions for the sector. It takes place on board the paddle steamer PS Elizabethan, boarding at Butler's Wharf Pier, Shad Thames, London.
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has written to Prime Minister David Cameron asking that air freight should not be overlooked when considering the options for creating new airport capacity in south east England.
In a letter to the Prime Minister FTA chief executive David Wells, outlined the essential work of air ...
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The Freight Transport Association is urging operators to take advantage of the last chance to participate in a trail of longer semi-trailers. According to the Department for Transport, 400 freight operator allocations are still available to allow them to use longer vehicles to transport goods on UK roads. The longer ...
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The value air freight to the UK economy is overlooked, says the Freight Transport Association in a commissioned report, ‘Sky-high value – The importance of air freight to the UK economy’ published on 20 March.
It says that continued investment in airport capacity is essential to its growth and success.
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The Freight Transport Association will hold another series of seminars, tutorials and master classes on supply chain best practice at the Multmodal show at the NEC between 29 April and 1 May.. Panels of experts will help tackle supply chain issues, keeping visitors up-to-date with the latest regulations and helping ...
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The Freight Transport Association’s General Manager for Ireland, Tom Wilson, retires from the association on 8 November. FTA said that in just over ten years with FTA, he had made a major contribution towards developing the association’s profile and influence in Northern Ireland, and his extensive experience has more recently ...
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The Freight Transport Association says it has headed off a European Commission proposal that could potentially have created conflicting requirements for shippers to weigh containers before shipment.
Under the EU weights and dimensions directive currently under review, the Commission had been proposing new shipper liability provisions for overweight/misdeclared containers which could have led ...
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The Freight Transport Association has called for funds to share the cost of improvements linking private ports to public roads as part of its submission to the Government ahead of the Chancellor’s 2013 Spending Review on 26 June.
The Association argues that investment, not cuts, in transport infrastructure are needed to ...
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The Freight Transport Association, while applauding the Chancellor’s decision to cancel September's planned fuel duty rise, said it was disappointed that he had ignored industry pleas for a cut in duty. In its pre-Budget submission to the Chancellor, FTA called for duty to be reduced by 3 pence per litre.
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Transport Under Secretary Stephen Hammond unveiled some details of the Government’s planned truck road charging scheme on 22 October. Intended to level the playing field between UK-based and foreign hauliers, he said it would remove the inequality of British trucks paying to use many roads abroad, but there being no ...
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