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!RESTOCK FEAR Trade associations and livestock hauliers from seven European
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countries. including the RHA, attended a meeting with the European Commission last week to voice their concerns over the proposed reduction in livestock journey times (see page 34).
LONGER SENTENCE The government has increased the maximum penalty for people convicted of human trafficking from 10 to 14 years imprisonment. Home Secretary David Blunkett has met French Employment Minister Elisabeth Guigou to discuss issues surrounding the Sangatte Red Cross centre,
MT STE,
P&O and Shell have submitted applications to develop the UK's largest container port on the site of a former oil refinery at Shell Haven in Thurrock. Essex. It will be able to handle 3.5 million containers a year.
REVENUE FALL
Eurotunnel has blamed a 6% fall in operating revenues last year on stowaways trying to hide on its trains.
RUCS BUST
Three men were sentenced at Croydon Crown Court last week for importing drugs worth .£20Cim into the UK. The drugs, which were described as car parts to an innocent haulage firm, were destined for Hemmings Engineering, a front company based in Kent.
TRANSPORT 11EASMIY
Chancellor Cordon Brown has commissioned a study by the Treasury to look into Britain's transport system, in a move which will be seen as treading on the toes of Transport Secretary Stephen Byers, according to the
Financial Times.