freight-transport-association

Scots freight industry is a curate’s egg, says new report

There has been a sharp increase in the amount of containerised traffic passing through Scottish ports, partly because of the boom in whisky exports, according to a new report on the logistics industry there. The report, authored by Professor Alan McKinnon of Kuhne University, Hamburg and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and published by the Freight Transport Association at its Scottish Supply Chain Conference in Glasgow on 27 September in conjunction with leading ... [+]

Shipshape

The Freight Transport Association’s Mode Shift Centre and Freight by Water have published ‘On board!’ a report detailing how freight customers are using water-based services to improve supply chains. It demonstrates the possibilities across a range of industry sector with case studies from Argos, Typhoo, the Yorkshire Linen Company, the ... [+]

Rail report welcomed with reservations

The industry broadly welcomed the McNulty report on the future of the railways published on 9 March, but warned that the needs of rail freight operators should not be forgotten. The report, which was mainly concerned with passenger services, demanded better value for money from the rail industry. The Freight Transport ... [+]