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The government has published a fact sheet outlining the steps that UK hauliers should be taking over the coming months following EU Exit. It includes what to do in the event of the “unlikely scenario” that UK hauliers can no longer rely on automatic recognition by the EU of UK-issued Community Licences. However, even if this happens, the Government is confident it will be able to put in


place agreements with the EU as a whole or with individual member states to ensure continued market access. One option covered is the ECMT


international haulage permit system and the Department for Transport is setting up a new automated system for their application and issue, which will open for applications in late November. Hauliers wishing to


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Woodland Group has extended its Wuhan (China) to Duisburg rail service to London Gateway to once a week. Total transit time from China to the UK is 20-22 days and the connecting train from Duisburg to London leaves on Thursday, arriving on Friday. Round-the-clock GPS tracking is available.


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Militzer & Münch says it has achieved a 30% year-on-year growth in full container load shipments on its China/Europe rail service and 50% for less-than-containerloads. The forwarder added that it had recently won a new key account from the technology industry for eastbound as well as westbound FCL and LCL transport.


Kazakhstan and China have opened a new border crossing at Nur Zholy-Khorgos to boost trade along the new 8,445km Western China to Western Europe expressway, part of China’s Belt and Road project. It is part of a road project across Russian, Kazakhstan and China. It is a fully operational trade route with TIR-ready border crossing points and there are plans to open ‘green’ lanes to speed up TIR transit.


The Freight Transport Association has welcomed Government plans, announced in mid-September to upgrade part of the A14 link to Felixstowe to motorway standard. Also included in the plans are a new Oxford-Cambridge Expressway.


The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) said on 2 October that it was concerned about the Iranian government’s reaction to a strike by truck drivers, then in its second week. About 150 drivers have reportedly been arrested and a spokesperson for the judiciary has threatened “heavy punishment.” The ITF understands that Iran’s attorney general, Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri, has suggested that those who initiated the protest actions will be subject to the death penalty, citing a threat to national security. His comments have been echoed by other clerics. Drivers have been protesting about low and unpaid wages and rising costs.


Le Shuttle Freight said it had its best ever third quarter this year aſter it equalled last year’s record for the month of September with almost 139,000 trucks transported. Since 1 January, almost 1.26 million trucks have crossed the Channel with Le Shuttle Freight.


European logistics operator GBA Services is spending over £4 million on its largest-ever vehicle purchase. It comprises 20 DAF XF106 double sleeper tractor units, 30 low-mileage used units for a new contract, 15 brand new Lawrence David Tall-boy 4.65m high pillarless curtain-side trailers, 30 Mercedes Sprinter vans, six of them refrigerated. Many are leſt-hand-drive for allocation to GBA’s European stations in Germany, Poland, Austria and Portugal.


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apply must be registered on the DVSA on-line Vehicle Operator Licencing (VOL) system by 12 November but the vast majority of operators concerned will already be registered and do not need to do so again. Applications for an


Issue 7 2018 - Freight Business Journal


Government issues ‘just in case’ advice to hauliers


annual ECMT permit for 2019 will need to be made between 26 November and 21 December. ECMT permits will be limited in


number and allocated according to certain criteria such as intensity of use.


Hauliers will find out if they


have received an annual permit early in 2019. Licenced operators can use the


permits for different vehicles at different times but the permit must be carried in a vehicle whilst it is making an international journey. There will also be some


monthly ECMT permits available next year. Applications for these will be open at a later date and more guidance will be given ahead of this.


3 Further information about the


process can be found at: (www.gov. uk/euexitdriving). In all Brexit scenarios, there


are also new requirements for the separate registration of commercial trailers with a gross weight over 750kg used for international haulage to, or through, foreign countries who have ratified the 1968 Vienna Convention from next March. Trailers should be registered from January with DVLA.


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