The Rail Freight Group has welcomed publication of the Department for Transport’s long-term vision for the strategic freight network saying it demonstrates the department’s long term commitment to rail freight and to developing a fit for purpose network.
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The other day I read a document that starts: “Freight is important and matters to everyone”. At first I thought it had been written for five year olds.
It is difficult to engage employers in a skills development discussion when their sole focus is either on the survival of their company or on survival of their job, or both. However, as I keep on saying, now is precisely the time to give skills developmen
Transport secretary Geoff Hoon has said freight is key to the competitiveness of the UK economy in a new Department for Transport policy document published today (16th December 2008).
Government plans to inject an extra £1bn into transport infrastructure are too focused on the south of the country, according to PD Ports which runs Teesport in the North East.
PD Ports has invested more than a million pounds in three reachstackers along with the refurbishment of its ferry terminal amenity facilities at Teesport.
The Department for Transport has announced grants of more than £132 million for rail freight.
As British MPs contemplate the unwelcome prospect of decamping from the splendour of the Palace of Westminster to a near by building while building work is undertaken on the mid-nineteenth century structure, construction logistics comes very much to mind.
A strategy document from the Department for Transport has given long-term support to continued growth of rail freight. Derrick Potter, board member of the Rail Freight Group and executive director of The Potter Group, welcomes it.
Building a greener supply chain is not easy with conflicting views on carbon offsetting, food miles and biofuels. Technology can help – but so can a radical review of accepted practices.
