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A PUBLIC INQUIRY into an £85m rail expansion plan at
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Felixstowe port is due to close this week. It could take 'up to 500,000 truck movements' off the road.
The proposalfor a second railway track on a 7km stretch of line between Ipswich and Felixstowe, coupled with the construction of a marshalling yard for freight trains, received around 60 objections from the public and local councils.
But port corporate affairs manager Paul Davey says the majority of these have been withdrawn and the councils are not against the plan in principle. He adds that expansion at the port will benefit container operators as well as boost rail-freight opportunities Davey calculates that if the rail plan gets the go-ahead the number of freight trains moving in each direction will increase from 25 to 40 a day. Expansion of the port will carry on, even if the plan is rejected: "If we don't get the permission, we don't build the railway. [But] the port expansion will still go ahead.
"Increased capacity at the port is significantly greater than [the rail plan]. There will be still more traffic going by road than currently. We aren't picking up any concerns one way or another among the haulage community there's plenty of work for them and more in the future.