Freight News

Freight Rates to Eastern Europe climb

The cost of carrying road freight to Poland, Hungary and the Czech republic has increased by about 10% during the course of this year.  There was a su...
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Posted on November 27, 2008

Freight Train to China

a container train loaded with a variety of goods is en route from Hamburg in Germany to China.  It should arrive in late November, and will off-load i...
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Posted on November 25, 2008

Water Freight Grants sinking

It is not very well known that the Department for Transport has a system of operating subsidies for inland waterways.  Take-up of the grants has been ...
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Posted on November 20, 2008

Increased rail freight capacity to Scotland

High cube freight traffic coming through Teesport will soon be able to travel to central Scotland by train.  The new high cube capacity container trai...
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Freight disrupted by French Trade Unions

After the four-day strike by pilots in France which ended at midnight last night, rail freight movements are now at risk of being disrupted by striking rai...
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Posted on November 18, 2008

Possible Freight delays at Dover

Movement of freight through the port of Dover may be delayed today and tomorrow due to strike action by hundreds of port workers.  Members of the 'Uni...
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Shipping needs green regulation

Shipping has been slow to take on new technologies which help to reduce emissions.  Although many new features are available to make ships more fuel e...
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Posted on November 13, 2008

New shipping service between Norway and Denmark

From January 2009 there will be a new freight only shipping service between Frederica in Denmark and Moss in Norway.  The idea of this service is to s...
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Felixstowe project begins

Work on the expansion of the Felixstowe South terminal has so far consisted of demolition of old buildings and warehouses, but in September there was an of...
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Posted on November 4, 2008

India invests in freight infrastructure

The government of India has committed to a huge investment in roads, rail and ports in order to facilitate increased international trade.  The through...
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Shipping Lines restrict capacity

Freight forwarders and end users have been seeing the benefit of the economic slowdown in falling rates from Asia-Europe shipping lines.  The Far East...
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