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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The LNG is turned back into gas at the Milford Haven terminals and pumped into the UK network along a specially built pipeline running from Milford to Gloucestershire.

BBC: The LNG terminal near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire

He said it was compatible with the world's other major global satellite navigation systems, and encouraged Chinese and foreign enterprises to help develop terminals that could use the Chinese network.

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For carriers it makes a lot of sense to offload that traffic to home Wifi or femtocell terminals and then on to the fixed network.

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