The UK requires a £100bn investment to decarbonise its heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) or risk missing climate change targets for the sector, a report from the Green Finance Institute (GFI) has said.
The HGV sector is a priority sector to decarbonise, repr…
The 2022 Tour of Britain, which was supposed to go around all the way from up north in Aberdeen and conclude with a hill-top finish at the Needles in Isle of Wight, the island located just off the south coast of England.
However, the death of Queen Eli…
Rise in traffic jams due to growing urbanization in developing countries, increase in investment in railway infrastructure, and increased inclination of governments toward CO2 emission reduction from the transportation industry drive the growth of the …
The administrators of Wiggle Chain Reaction Cycles (Wiggle CRC) have said that they will close down the international websites of both online retailers to focus exclusively on the UK market, adding that the businesses, which entered administration in O…
1 Dec 2023 | Newsletters[1]
Ministerial Changes at the Department for Transport
The recent ministerial reshuffle on 13th November has brought about significant changes in the Department for Transport (DfT) leadership. While there is continuity in some…
William McCurdy
30 November 2023 at 9:38 am
Virgin Atlantic organised the first transatlantic flight using 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from London’s Heathrow Airport to New York’s JFK Airport on November 28, 2023 (Virgin Atlantic Fl…
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Members of the public are being asked to share their views to support two studies[2] which seek to improve transport accessibility and connectivity to and from Fraserburgh and Peterhead.
The study loo…
The Green Finance Institute (GFI) has released a report on the eve of COP28 [29 November] outlining how the slow transition from diesel to zero carbon trucks (ZET) is exacerbating climate breakdown.
The decarbonisation of the freight and logistics sec…
The decarbonisation of heavy-goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK could be a £100 billion investment opportunity but urgent action is required, a new report from the Green Finance Institute (GFI) has said.
The Delivering Net Zero: Unlocking Public and Priva…
Wednesday 29 November 2023 5:45 pm
British haulage businesses going insolvent has jumped over the last two years as the fallout of the UK economy has pushed business to go bust.
Over the last 12 months, 463 haulage businesses went bust, more than dou…
The Federation of Wholesale Distributors has called on Westminster to help wholesalers[1] work towards “economic prosperity” with a series of actions laid out in a manifesto published today.
As the political parties write their plans ahead of electio…
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Urgent action is needed to electrify half a million heavy-polluting HGVs in the UK, in order to meet net zero targets for transport – a new report from the Green Finance Institute (GFI) ahead of COP28 says today.
As world leaders prepare…
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 | BUSINESS SALE
Hemisphere Freight Services (HFS), a family-owned logistics company, has agreed to acquire the warehousing and freight forwarding operations of Suffolk-based Magnus Group, which has fallen into administration.The agre…
Staffordshire based Pallet Network Solutions[1] has become the latest logistics firm to join the Palletways UK[2] network in response to the increasing demand for a trusted regional partner to handle direct haulage to customers and support services at …