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The Freight Transport Association's director of global and European policy Chris Welsh has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for services to shippers and the shipping industry. The award recognises his leading role in representing of UK freight shippers to the European Union and global organisations for over 30 years and in bringing shipper representatives together from across the world. In June 2011 he became the ...
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The Freight Transport Association is pressing the French government to take action on the migrant situation in Calais, which it says now resembles as warzone.
FTA deputy chief executive James Hookham spoke to immigration and security minister James Brokenshire about drivers’ latest experiences at the port, where violent confrontations have ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is alarmed at reports of a delay to the Airport's Commission's announcement on options for runway expansion in south-east England.
An announcement on one of three options outlined by the Commission last November was expected this month, but reports claim there will be no response ...
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Winners of the FTA everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards for 2015 were unveiled in London on 3 June. They are:
Woman of the Year Award 2015:
Fiona Kerr – Managing Director, First Glasgow
Rising Star of the Year Award – sponsored by Wincanton:
Zoë Dobell - Project Engineer, London Underground, from London
Driver of ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has written to Prime Minister David Cameron asking that air freight should not be overlooked when considering the options for creating new airport capacity in south east England.
In a letter to the Prime Minister FTA chief executive David Wells, outlined the essential work of air ...
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Within hours of David Cameron being confirmed as the next prime minister, the Freight Transport Association urged him and his new Government to recognise the importance of logistics in keeping the people of Britain supplied with essential goods they need.
FTA director of policy, Karen Dee, said that policies “must ensure ...
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One in ten containers have wrongly declared weights according to a recent survey, cargo handling expert Captain Richard Brough told a seminar at the Multimodal exhibition in Birmingham on 30 April. Captain Brough, who is technical and administration director of the International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA), said that in ...
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The Home Affairs Committee has backed Freight Transport Association concerns over a plan to introduce 100% exit checks and manual passport on traffic leaving the UK ports from 8 April. It says that there would be traffic chaos at terminal and Operation Stack would become a regular feature on Kent ...
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The Freight Transport Association has warned of the costs to the freight industry of trying to split air operations in the south-east between Heathrow and Gatwick.
Extra airport runway capacity in London and the south east of England is vital to the UK economy, said the Freight Transport Association in its ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) told the Scottish Parliament's inquiry into freight transport on 4 February that it needed policies and infrastructure investment that recognises the country's challenges. Head of policy Scotland, Chris MacRae outlined how Scotland’s rail, road, air and sea freight routes to the rest of the UK, ...
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