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Freight industry tackles climate challenge

In lieu of any meaningful progress at last month’s Copenhagen climate summit, the freight industry is leading the debate on how to record and sensibly reduce its own carbon emissions. A brand new voluntary scheme led ...

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Final ATF contract a big improvement, says Freight Transport Association

The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency’s (VOSA’s) plans to introduce Authorised Testing Facilities (ATFs) across the country will be improved significantly by the contractual changes it has made to ensure ATF ...

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Scotland’s minister for transport to address FTA’s inaugural supply chain forum

Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure & Climate change, will deliver the keynote speech at the Freight Transport Association’s (FTA) inaugural Scottish Supply Chain Forum (SSCF) on 26 January ...

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Investment and smarter speed limits can improve our roads’ poor safety rating, says FTA

Leading transport trade body the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has called for greater investment in road infrastructure along with a more intelligent approach to speed limits to bring greater safety benefits to all road users ...

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FTA cautious over simplification of speed limit rules

Government proposals to reduce the maximum legal speed limit for some lorries on our motorways have been met with caution by leading trade body the Freight Transport Association (FTA) ...

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Show logistics some love, says FTA

Few sectors can claim to have as significant an impact on our lives as the logistics sector, without which society as we know it would look very different ...

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Transport minister to address FTA Urban Logistics Conference

Transport minister Paul Clark will be the keynote speaker at the Freight Transport Association’s annual Urban Logistics Conference, which takes place in London on 10 March ...

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Adonis backs FTA’s Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme

Lord Adonis, the Secretary of State for Transport, has backed a new scheme from the Freight Transport Association to report the logistics sector’s carbon footprint publicly ...

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FTA welcomes Select Committee support for Strategic Freight Network

The Freight Transport Association has today welcomed support for the Strategic Freight Network by an influential Parliamentary committee. The House of Commons Transport Select Committee report on rail funding ...

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Government inflation targets scuppered by fuel duty rises, says FTA

The Government has dealt itself a poor hand having revealed that one of the largest culprits for the sharp rise in annual inflation last year was fuel costs – a factor exacerbated by successive, above-inflation fuel duty rises ...

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