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Issue 8 2017 - Freight Business Journal www.vixsoft.com


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Heathrow boss unveils freight plan for the future…


Heathrow’s non-executive chairman Lord Deighton has unveiled a Blueprint for Sustainable Freight to the British Chambers of Commerce International Trade Summit on 12 October. It addresses the impacts of freight vehicles around the airport whilst continuing to increase cargo volumes. It aims to ensure that even as


Heathrow and freight volumes grow with expansion, airport road traffic does not increase in proportion. The ten steps include


modernising cargo infrastructure to allow more airside transhipments, consolidation points away from airport local roads and a new cargo village to reduce unnecessary vehicle movements. There would also be tools such


as a load consolidation app for local forwarders, trials of low emission freight vehicles and geo-fencing technology to reduce emissions on local roads and charging points for electric vehicles. Lord Deighton said that


Heathrow will help major partners deliver a modernised, more efficient cargo village to allow more direct trips, reducing the need for shuttle movements to and from off airport warehousing, which represent around a third of cargo related trips. It will begin consulting on plans


to install airside transhipment points to eliminate the need for goods to be transported landside to the cargo area or pass through control posts twice by the time the airport expands. Streamlining air-to-air processes will reduce transit times and trucking costs for handlers, free up warehouse space, reduce emissions and the number of freight vehicles involved. There will be freight


consolidation centres similar to that already used for Heathrow’s retailers and which has already reduced the number of supplier vehicles on the roads entering the airport by 42%. Heathrow will also work with


the freight community to deliver a code of conduct for all Heathrow freight operators to reduce impact


on local communities, such as inappropriate parking, littering, vehicle routes and aggressive driving. Heathrow’s expansion


masterplan will be developed in conjunction with local authorities to prioritise efficient cargo operations in planning land use around the airport. The airport will identify


appropriate locations for freight facilities to try and avoid inappropriate traffic movements close to residential areas. Heathrow will also establish a partnership with leading cargo and freight companies and groups including DHL, the Freight Transport Association, IAG Cargo, Dnata and the British International Freight Association (BIFA). The Sustainable Freight Group will meet twice a year to exchange experience and best practice, support the development of initiatives to reduce emissions from freight activity at the airport and feed into local and national freight policy development. It will support the roll out of


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freight accreditation schemes with emissions reduction targets, trial low and zero emission vehicle technologies and identify measures to consolidate freight movements to and from the airport. •


On 24 October, the


government said it was on track to publish final proposals for expansion at Heathrow in the first half of 2018 for a vote in Parliament. The public have until 19 December to consider and respond to new evidence in the revised draſt


Airports National Statement. Once MPs Policy approve


the final document, it will set the planning policy framework which


the airport needs in order to bring forward a planning application for the new north-west runway. Meanwhile, Heathrow said


in a statement published on 10 November


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airport’s busiest month for cargo in history handling over 150,000 tonnes. Cargo volume reached record levels for the 15th month in a row, and was up 9.2% compared to the same time last year.


…but BIFA chief slams airfreight ‘misery’


British International Freight Association (BIFA) director general Robert Keen has called on Heathrow airport to follow up on its congestion-busting plan with “action not words”. Keen said that congestion


in the Shoreham Road area of Heathrow’s cargo terminal (the ‘Horseshoe Road’) “is as bad


GBRf starts Southampton- Birmingham service


GB Railfreight (GBRf) has started its first intermodal service from Solent Stevedores’ terminal at ABP Port of Southampton to ABP’s Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal near Birmingham. The first 34-wagon service departed on 1 November on behalf of logistics firm Wincanton and will run daily (Tuesday to


Saturday). GBRf will operate the


as it has ever been”. He added that the police often had to turn away vehicles, “leading to a huge rise in complaints from our members”. Keen said that Heathrow was


already at crisis point. BIFA members, he said, “are enduring misery on a daily basis when using the airport’s cargo centre”.


service for five years, having been awarded the contract on 20 October. ABP Southampton has invested £2.4m in a new 5.8 acre facility operated by Solent Stevedores.


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