Royal Mail is introducing a Sunday parcel delivery service for major retailers. In the next month, a number of retail brands will begin trialling Royal Mail’s new Sunday delivery service across the UK. Royal Mail is currently in discussions with additional retailers about rolling out the service to their customers too. The trial is the…
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Uber says it will give its 70,000 UK drivers a guaranteed minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions. The ride-hailing app giant said all drivers would earn at least the National Living Wage, which is £8.72 an hour and rises to £8.91 next month. It comes one month after the US firm lost a legal battle…
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has reappointed Sir Peter Hendy CBE as Chair of the Board of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited and Network Rail Limited. Sir Peter has been reappointed for a further term of two years, which will start on 16 July 2021, having served on the board of Network Rail since 2015. He’s also…
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Journeys are set to be transformed for northern passengers thanks to £137 million of government investment that will deliver more capacity and improve connectivity between Sheffield and Manchester. To help meet future demand, the Hope Valley capacity scheme is designed to remove bottlenecks on the line by creating places for fast passenger services to overtake…
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Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways has reported a record annual loss of $2.8bn (£2bn) for 2020. Its poor results were due to a sharp downturn in travel during the pandemic along with major restructuring costs. Cathay Pacific had previously warned it expected its second-half losses to be worse than the record first-half loss of $1.3bn.…
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The EU is likely to step up promotion of its Motorways of the Sea concept on which my University of South Wales team and I worked in its early stages. Its objective is to move traffic away from major land routes such as northern France, south-east England and the central region in France. Road freight…
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Wincanton, a leading supply chain partner for UK business, has been awarded an initial three-year contract with Kelkay, the garden landscaping products manufacturer. Under the new contract, Wincanton will provide Kelkay with a scalable transport service, comprising of store deliveries, fleet provision and maintenance, planning, scheduling and compliance. This will be underpinned by Wincanton’s leading…
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Following the recent launch of its Felixstowe to Wakefield service, Maritime Transport Ltd. (Maritime), the UK’s fastest-growing intermodal operator, is delighted to announce another new addition to its expanding intermodal offering, a rail freight service operated by DB Cargo UK connecting the Port of Felixstowe to East Midlands Gateway (EMG). The new service, Maritime’s fifth…
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Home Secretary Priti Patel has welcomed the appointment of David Neal as the new Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration is an independent monitoring body sponsored by the Home Office that reports on the efficiency and effectiveness of the immigration, asylum, nationality and customs functions carried…
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DfT has announced the creation of a second HQ in Birmingham and a northern hub in Leeds, as part of a plan to create 650 roles in the cities. The move is part of the government’s commitment to diversifying the Civil Service, ensuring decisions are rooted in the communities it serves. It is a particularly…
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