The Rail Freight Group says that to transfer 25% of all lorry loads over the next ten years would require about 1, 000 additional freight trains, together with a network of terminals around the country, plus substantial investment in rolling stock, locomotives and equipment.

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Cathy Bolshaw, from Stop The Rail Freight Exchange group, called the decision "devastating for St Albans".

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But Ratmoko chose to pool his savings with his brother and start freight forwarder Multitrans Group.

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Almost 6, 000 have signed a Stop the Rail Freight Exchange (STRiFE) group petition, asking the authority to keep Radlett Airfield in Park Street from developers HelioSlough.

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As she looks at the throng of armed police officers guarding her husband, Mrs Norris recounts the first telephone call she received from the 52-year-old air freight exporter after the authorities swooped on his tour group.

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Through a strategy of acquisition and diversification, he has transformed the group into Europe's biggest rail-freight operator, Germany's biggest bus operator, and the world's number two in airfreight and number three in sea-freight.

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The Outer Hebrides Transport Group said removing road equivalent tariff (RET) from freight would lead to a 175% increase in travel costs from April.

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An Isle of Man travel consumer group is "astonished" about the decision to drop an inquiry into ferry freight charges.

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