Infos Transport (Patrice Salini)

Le projet de Central Railway (un ligne fret entre Lille et Liverpool) a été rejeté par le Ministre des transports. Ce projet est en ligne en français à l’adresse : http://www.central-railway.co.uk/pdfs/resumeduprojet0303.pdf •La FTA apprécie peu cette décision (http://www.fta.co.uk/news/pressreleases/archive/20040329FTAhas.htm) ___________ Comuniqué officiel : News Release 2004/0031: 25 March 2004 GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES DECISION ON THE CENTRAL RAILWAY FREIGHT LINE Transport Minister Kim Howells today announced that the Government has decided not to support Central Railway’s proposal for a Parliamentary Bill for a dedicated freight line that would link the Channel Tunnel with the North West of England. The Bill would have sought powers to build a £10 billion freight line that would have run from the Channel Tunnel to Liverpool, routed south of London and via Sheffield. The main reason for the decision is that Central Railway has not demonstrated to the Government

Eye for transport : The changing landscape of the logistics and transportation industries ______________ Worldwide, the transport and logistics services industry is in strategic chaos. Diverse factors, ranging from those that arise from the industry itself to other allied market forces, have set in an industry-wide value migration. The key functionality, i.e. transportation of goods, no longer exists in the traditional sense. What only a decade back had seemed a pure asset-play, has now turned into a maze of new and competing institutional and business enterprise models. Lire la suite sur : http://www.eyefortransport.com/index.asp?news=41149&nli=freight&ch= ___________________________________________________________________