FTA welcomes Labour investment plans

Date: 1/10/2009

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has reacted positively to news that the Labour Party intend to invest in businesses.

James Hookham, speaking after Gordon Brown's keynote speech in Brighton, suggested that companies that rely on logistics could be helped by investment.

He said: "Of course, without continued investment in infrastructure, joining up the road and rail networks and making it easier to move goods from coast to coast, these efforts will be for nought.

"That's why the FTA will continue to press the government to scrap these programmes and recognise the value of the logistics sector to UK plc."

Earlier last month, the FTA also praised the adoption of new rules by the Council of Ministers that would bring safer roads to Europe.

Titled the EU Road Transport Package, road operator licensing will be tightened up across the continent as will rules regarding cabotage - the movement of freight in one country by a vehicle registered in another.