Breaking News

The shipping industry faces a climate crisis reckoning “ will it decarbonize?

In August, Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, announced that it would add eight new container ships to its fleet that would be unlike any merchant vessels operating on the high seas today.

Amazon enters London bus market as it starts running four lines

Amazon has entered the London bus market, providing services for employees and contractors.

'Urgent meeting' wanted with Transport Secretary over rail links between North Wales and North West

Business and local authority leaders from North Wales and the North West of England want an urgent meeting with the UK Secretary of State for Transport to find ways to accelerate investment in cross-border rail links.

Saturday, 13 November 2021

Cogitamus

BBC News

The Guardian

Times Online

  • Green housing schemes have nowhere to park your car [subscription]The proposal to “disincentivise unsustainable travel” through planning rules is part of a new strategy to help Scotland reach net-zero emissions by 2045. Among the recommendations, likely to become law by July 2022, are moves to improve transit links in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, to reduce congestion and a reliance on cars.

City AM

  • Amazon enters London bus market as it starts running four linesAmazon has entered the London bus market, providing services for employees and contractors.
  • Rolls-Royce reaches agreement with union over Barnoldswick’s futureRolls-Royce has reached an agreement with UK union Unite to operate the Barnoldswick factory in Lancashire for another 10 years, freezing compulsory redundancies for five years. The agreement builds on protections that were previously secured in 2020. “This is a tremendous achievement for the workers at Barnoldswick who have stood solidly in support of one [...] The post Rolls-Royce reaches agreement with union over Barnoldswick’s future appeared first on CityAM.

Network Rail

Sky News

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

Daily Post (North Wales)

Yorkshire Post

Other Regional Press

The Economist

  • How trains could replace planes in Europehe centrepiece of this year’s European Year of Rail was the “Connecting Europe Express”. Between September and October its cars whisked eu officials across the continent on a whistle-stop tour promoting the future of railways. But the train itself was a nostalgia trip: most of its wagons were built in the 1980s, since more recent models were less likely to be certified by the rail-safety boards of all 26 countries it visited. Without arm-twisting by the European Commission, said Alberto Mazzola of the cer, a rail-industry group, the trip would have been impossible.

Bikebiz

Business Live

Construction News

Rail Technology Magazine

Other News Sources

Recent Archives

Latest News

 

Conferences & Expo's

All Transport

Bus and Coach

Campaign Groups

Friends of TransportInfo

Logistics

Passenger Representatives

Trades Unions

Aviation

Motoring

Rail

Shipping & Waterways

News Media

 

Better Transport, Better Lives