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Chancellor Gordon Brown has broken faith with the freight industry by increasing diesel duty by 1.25 pence a litre, the Freight Transport Association has warned.

TNT Express and TNT Logistics are trialling an electric 7.5 tonne truck which they reckon is the first zero emission vehicle that can compete with a diesel on urban delivery routes.

BMT Transport Solutions has been commissioned by the European Union to help develop a management structure for a European intermodal transport system.

Browns Distribution, a member of the Palletline pallet network, has bought two super-cube double deck trailers and three gas-powered forklifts, at a cost of nearly £100,000.

Gefco UK has been contracted by Ficosa, the automotive systems and components manufacturer, to transfer parts on a weekly basis from European production sites in France, Spain and Slovenia to its logistics warehouse in Coventry.

Sir Rod Eddington has called for the introduction of a road user charging scheme in his study: Transport’s role in sustaining UK’s Productivity and Competitiveness: The Case for Action.