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Roads Minister Jesse Norman is urging companies to compete for up to £15 million of funding to develop technology to reduce harmful road freight emissions. Projects could include making vehicles lighter or improving the efficiency of engines or batteries. The completion has been developed with Innovate UK.
https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/26/overview.
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The Department for Transport has revealed its prefered route for the Lower Thames Crossing connecting the M25 to Channel-bound routes via a new estuary crossing. It chosen option 'C' running from a new junction between junctions 29 and 30 on the M25 over a new crossing to the east of ...
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Rail freight currently carries one in four of the containers coming into our ports but could carry an even higher proportion, said rail minister Paul Maynard on publishing the government’s new Rail Freight Strategy on 13 September.
Rail reduces carbon emissions by around three quarters compared to road, and also ...
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The UK Department for Transport has relaxed drivers' hours rules for trucks caught up in the congestion. The temporary measures apply for 30 days from 30 July and apply only to drivers who have used a ferry or Eurotunnel to reach or leave Kent or vehicles with operating centres in ...
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The UK Government is challenging an EU regulation that it says requires it spend money developing a rail freight corridor to Scotland. The Department for Transport has asked the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) to annul an amendment in the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which obliges London to invest in ...
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The House of Commons Transport Committee has called on the government to do more to tackle UK ports' bottlenecks in a report published on 26 November. The BBC website reported that Mps believe that the UK is at a disadvantage to other EU countries and there was inconsistency in who ...
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The CBI urged the Government to maintain night flights at London's three main airports - Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted – in its response to a Department for Transport consultation which closed on 21 April. It said that night flights play a key role in aviation and generate millions of pounds ...
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Roads Minister Stephen Hammond announced plans to increase the speed limit for trucks over 7.5 tonnes on single carriageway to 45 or 50mph. The current limit is 40mph. The existing 50mph limit for trucks between 3.5t and 7.5t will not be changed.
The Freight Transport Association welcomed the move, saying that ...
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Total freight traffic through UK ports was 519 million tonnes, up 1% on 2010, but still 11% below the 2005 level said the Department for Transport in its latest statistical report. Compared with 2010, inwards traffic increased by 5% to 328 Mt, whilst outwards traffic decreased by 4% to 192 ...
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The Department for Transport is reported to be planning to introduce a £10 a day charge for foreign trucks by 2015 in a bid to even out competition with UK operators. The charge will in fact be payable by all road users, but British truckers will be able to reclaim ...
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