Manufacturers of small high-tech electronics goods, where freight costs account for a tiny fraction of the retail price, may not be that bothered about hedging freight rates.
And in a report to Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, the transport commission said ministers should not allow 44-tonners until rail freight considerations are taken into account.
He made his directorial debut two years ago with "Sin Nombre, " a dramatically commanding and visually expansive account, in Spanish, of impoverished immigrants riding atop freight trains as they lumber through Mexico toward the U.S. border.