The Freight Transport Association has told Exchequer Secretary Angela Eagle that she must abandon plans to increase fuel duty by 2 pence per litre from 1 October.
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The focus was firmly on the environment at the Scala annual logistics debate last month.
Simon Plant and Daniel Plant, of SFP have been appointed Joint Administrators of FDB Distribution, based at Kingswinford in the West Midlands.
Sainsbury’s has been working with Port of London Authority to trial delivering food to Sainsbury’s stores in London by river.
The recent earthquake in north west Japan has sent reverberations through the supply chains of Japan’s leading car makers. And once again, questions are being asked about the risks involved in single sourcing and lean production systems.
Transport secretary Ruth Kelly has promised more than £200 million to start work on a strategic freight network.
The ERF name is finally disappearing from the UK road transport industry following the decision by MAN to stop branding vehicles with the ERF name.
Kuehne + Nagel saw sales rise 14.7 per cent to £4.03 billion for the first half of 2007.
Trucks can run on low emission natural gas and reduce fuel costs at the same time, according to Clean Air Power.
Eurotunnel is set to revise down its fee structure for freight trains using the channel tunnel.