Hauliers to join rail bandwagon
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• Hauliers will be forced into multi-modal work with rail and ship operators during the next decade, to cope with the possible trebling of freight traffic by the year 2005, speakers predicted at the Euromodal Exhibition at Brussels last week.
Although combined transport can be up to 20% cheaper than road, it is an average 32km/hr slower. To increase the speed transhipment yards' working hours must be extended, frontier stopping times reduced and organised timetables introduced, says a new report, which warns that international road haulage will be hit by more curfews as environmental pressure grows.
"I look forward to the day when goods on sale have an 'environment friendly label because of the use of rail in the transport chain," says Railfreight Distribution, managing director Ian Brown.