The UK Port of Felixstowe has broken its all-time weekly record for the number of containers transported through the port by rail, handling 7,006 boxes in a week at the end of April. The Port launched a number of new rail services at the end of 2003 and has seen its containers by rail volume increase by 14% over the last two years. The port launched a number of new rail services late last year.
Ted Sangster of Milford Haven Port Authority said the planning regime too often gave disproportionate weight to environmental considerations, leading to costly delays and unreasonable rejections of development plans which ports wished to bring forward. He has called for improved dialogue between ports, politicians and statutory bodies to develop a better understanding of the needs of ports and of the high environmental standards that they work to.
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