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Stobart Rail opens Tesco Green Train rail freight service
Stobart Rail, in partnership with Tesco, has announced the opening of a new six days a week Grangemouth - Inverness rail freight service. The Scottish Government, in its commitment to ease congestion on the A9 trunk road, and reduce damage to the environment, has allocated over £3 million of funding to all parties connected with this new rail freight service. This will significantly reduce pressure on the busy A9 route to Inverness by taking ... [more]
Lord Adonis blast train companies over Oyster cards (Evening Standard)
He criticised train companies who have so far failed to agree to sell the transport cards and promised to intervene to speed up the roll-out. The Cabinet minister said commuters must be able to purchase or top up Oyster cards at railway stations in the same way they can at Tube stations.
Long Island Auto Transport Broker (FOX 5 New York)
Fox 5's Arnold Diaz has been reporting on a Long Island automobile transport broker for more than two years. Bayville-based A Blue Knight Auto Carrier has used many names, including A Eastern Connection.
Transport infrastructure still a yield selection (The Borneo Post)
KUCHING: The transport infrastructure sector is expected to register better earnings amid the recent economic recovery and increasing number of upcoming projects.
Transport giant buys Norfolk bus firm (EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press)
A bus firm launched 10 years ago in a Norfolk village has been bought by one of the country's biggest public transport groups. KonectBus, which serves Swaffham, Dereham, Fakenham, Norwich and Watton, has been bought by the Go Ahead Group for an undisclosed sum.
Private sector eyes opportunity in Haiti rebuilding (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Rebuilding Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake should generate major contracts for private companies specializing in construction, logistics, transport and security, but U.S. executives say they need a clear reconstruction strategy to shape their business plans.
Private bus companies slammed for poor service (Brisbane Times)
PRIVATE bus companies with exclusive contracts to run services in Sydney's suburbs may face penalties for poor performance after the NSW Auditor-General slammed the inadequate and irregular services for passengers.
UK logisitics group acquires Hungarian food transport firm (Food Production Daily)
Kevin Richardson, TDG’s strategic development director said the acquisition of RRS allows TDG to expand its services into the Hungarian market by offering a high quality domestic transport capability.
Recession forces cuts to service, staff at Koch Transport (Kitchener - Waterloo Record)
Koch Transport, one of the oldest trucking companies in Waterloo Region, is feeling the pain inflicted on the trucking industry by the province’s manufacturing slump.
Bus firms told they must do better (Yorkshire Post Today)
BUS companies which run services across South Yorkshire are under pressure after the authority which oversees public transport in the county said services needed to improve. (10/03/2010 21:36:34)
Korea unveils the ‘future of transport’ — the Online Electric Vehicle (Times Online)
Its inventors believe that this is the future of urban transport — but it was hard not to be underwhelmed as the test vehicle trundled around a circuit on the edge of the South Korean capital.
