Rhenus Logistics UK, one of Britain’s leading freight forwarders, has warned that freight prices could rise significantly in the next few weeks, unless the ongoing crisis at Calais is resolved. David Williams, managing director of Rhenus UK, is concerned about the operational impact the French strikers and migrant incursions is having on UK import and export trade.
Following the Petrol Retailers Association’s (PRA) meeting with the Exchequer Secretary Priti Patel last week, the PRA is urging the UK Treasury to pass on the benefits of increasing fuel volumes, by immediately cutting fuel duty by 2 pence per litre.
It wasn’t an enormously motoring-centric Autumn statement this year, but UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne did confirm that fuel duty is to remain frozen and that the government would fund 84 road-building projects across the country. As far as fuel duty is concerned, some motoring groups had predicted a return of the fuel […]
The recent massive fall in the price of oil continues not to be reflected at the pumps. FairFuelUK is repeating its call for a full pricing enquiry into why prices are not being passed onto consumers every time they fill up their vehicles. Following a meeting with FairFuelUK, Priti Patel the Exchequer Secretary to the […]
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