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GSF brings transparency to shipping emissions debate at first AGM

The National Industrial Transformation League hosted the first Annual General Meeting of the Global Shippers’ Forum since its formal incorporation earlier this year. Over 50 delegates with shippers’ organisations from North and South America, Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa attended the meeting. At a press conference the pan-global trade ...

FTA seminars help over 1,000 transport managers prepare for winter

The Highways Agency’s winter preparation team will be providing details of its severe winter weather preparations, and how operators can be prepared for severe conditions, at the remaining seminars in the Freight Transport Association’s Transport Manager series ...

Book now for FTA’s Northern Ireland Conference – or miss out!

There’s just a week to go until the Freight Transport Association (FTA)’s Transport Manager Northern Ireland Conference, sponsored by Iveco, which takes place on Thursday 24 May at the Culloden Estate and Spa ...

FTA welcomes new rules on diabetes for commercial vehicle drivers

The Freight Transport Association has welcomed changes in the law which will now enable people with insulin treated diabetes to apply for vocational licences to drive buses or lorries ...

Dartford crossing tolls: FTA wants 'stay of execution' to become 'reprieve'

Today’s news that the Dartford Crossing toll rises planned for this month and next spring have been scrapped has been welcomed by the Freight Transport Association. However, the leading trade body warns that the government’s final decision on the timing and scale of future rises, expected early in the New Year, must be ...

£325m additional fuel tax bill is out of touch with struggling logistics sector, FTA warns Chancellor

The Freight Transport Association is warning the Chancellor against pressing ahead with a 3 pence per litre fuel duty increase from 1 January next year. FTA's latest Quarterly Transport Activity Survey shows that operators are more downbeat about business activity and freight volumes than at any time for the past two years. As well ...

Severn toll hike holds industry to ransom and highlights contractual shortcomings, says FTA

Lorry operators using the Severn crossing, already the most expensive toll in the UK, will be forced to pay an extra 90p in the New Year. The Freight Transport Association has condemned the decision made by Severn River Crossing plc (SRC) – the bridge’s builders – to once again foist up the charge for heavy goods vehicles to ...

FTA welcomes package of Government freight innovation and image measures

The Freight Transport Association has welcomed a new package of measures announced today (29 November) in the Department for Transport’s Logistics Growth Review. The Review, which was launched over the summer and has drawn extensively on feedback from industry, highlights the role central and local government must ...

Road and rail infrastructure plans welcomed by FTA

The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the Chancellor’s decision to inject new money into the cash-starved transport infrastructure as part of measures to get the economy moving again. The road widening schemes identified by the Chancellor are some of industry’s key trade routes but represent sections of the ...

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GSF brings transparency to shipping emissions debate at first AGM

FTA seminars help over 1,000 transport managers prepare for winter

Book now for FTA’s Northern Ireland Conference – or miss out!

FTA welcomes new rules on diabetes for commercial vehicle drivers

Top transport topics to be discussed at EuroTra events

Dartford crossing tolls: FTA wants 'stay of execution' to become 'reprieve'

£325m additional fuel tax bill is out of touch with struggling logistics sector, FTA warns Chancellor

Severn toll hike holds industry to ransom and highlights contractual shortcomings, says FTA

FTA welcomes package of Government freight innovation and image measures

Road and rail infrastructure plans welcomed by FTA

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