Freight capacity on UK short sea freight ro-ro, lo-lo and channel tunnel services has been cut by 4.1 per cent (600,000 units) over the past 12 months.
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Stobart Rail’s new weekly train service from the UK to Valencia is set to leave the Eurotunnel on Friday morning (30th October).
Freight capacity provided on UK short sea freight ro-ro, lo-lo and channel tunnel services has grown by more than three million units (24 per cent) since 2000, according to the ninth annual report by Peter Baker of PRB Associates.
P&O Ferries has said it will be increasing its service from Dover to Calais in response to yesterday’s fire on a Eurotunnel Shuttle carrying trucks.
Eurotunnel has slashed prices for its freight services.
A strategy document from the Department for Transport has given long-term support to continued growth of rail freight. Derrick Potter, board member of the Rail Freight Group and executive director of The Potter Group, welcomes it.
Transport secretary Ruth Kelly has promised more than £200 million to start work on a strategic freight network.
Eurotunnel is set to revise down its fee structure for freight trains using the channel tunnel.
The Channel Tunnel was supposed to be a key factor in the revitalisation of the rail freight industry in the UK by opening up opportunities to run fast train services right across Europe.
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