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• Catastrophe looms at ports after Brexit, shipping industry warns

  12-04-2017 12:15
  
  UK Chamber of Shipping predicts problem across Europe unless frictionless border is in place after Britain leaves the EUThe UK is facing an “absolute catastrophe” if it does not sort out a “frictionless and seamless” border at Dover and other ports, the shipping industry has warned.
  The UK Chamber of Shipping, which represents 170 freight ships, tankers and cruise liners, has called on governments across Europe to urgently grasp the challenge, arguing that a problem for t
  
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• Drum'n'bass rave on London tube train carriage – video

  12-04-2017 10:18
  
  MC Harry Shotta turns a tube carriage on the London Underground’s Bakerloo Line into the scene of a drum’n’bass rave on Monday night. The MC caught unsuspecting commuters off guard with high-volume music as part of a prank for the Trollstation YouTube channel. The event was shut down by British Transport police after the tube train had travelled across central London from Embankment station to PaddingtonPolice shut down ‘fully fledged rave’ on London tube carriageCo
  
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• Police shut down underground rave on Bakerloo tube carriage

  12-04-2017 09:50
  
  MC Harry Shotta regaled unsuspecting commuters on the Bakerloo line with drum’n’bass as part of a YouTube prankInstead of focusing their attention on a game of Candy Crush or desperately avoiding eye contact with fellow humans, tube passengers on the Bakerloo line in London were ambushed by a “fully fledged rave” led by drum’n’bass MC Harry Shotta on Monday night.The tube rave – which featured flashing lights and a soundsystem – took place as the t
  
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• Great Western Railway's refund was way overdue

  12-04-2017 08:00
  
  It took four months for me to receive my money back after the station machine and ticket office couldn’t trace my ticketI booked online two return train tickets from London to Exeter. When I went to collect them the station machine didn’t recognise my reference number. Nor did the ticket office computer. I was advised to ring Great Western. Ten minutes before departure I was still queuing on its automated system so gave up and found a GWR official on the concourse. He told me my only
  
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• Uniteds Munoz issues full apology for bumped passenger incident

  12-04-2017 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Just hours after commending employees and saying they followed proper procedure, United Airlines CEO has issued a full apology for the incident in which a bumped passenger was violently dragged off an aircraft.read more
  
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• United CEO reverses course and apologises after PR crisis

  12-04-2017 02:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Oscar Munoz responds to anger after Asian-American doctor was dragged from flight
  
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• United Airlines shares fall after passenger removal

  12-04-2017 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Shares in United Airlines finish down despite recovering some ground after an apology from its boss.
  
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• United Airlines Passenger Being Dragged Away Isn't Their Only PR Fail

  12-04-2017 02:00 via huffingtonpost.co.uk
  
  The Huffington Post - United Airlines has faced a huge backlash after a video emerged of a passenger being violently dragged off a plane - but this isnt the the airlines first PR fail. A United passenger, who said he was a doctor, was pulled from his seat and dragged away with a bloodied lip after being randomly selected to be ejected from the overbooked flight. At one point he managed to run back on board the plane with his face covered in blood, saying just kill me and I need to go home, accor
  
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• United Airlines CEO tries softer apology after company's stock nosedives

  12-04-2017 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Close to $1bn wiped off holding companys value before stock rallies, after a man was violently removed from a flight by aviation policeThe CEO of United Airlines has issued a second public apology about the man who was forcibly removed from a flight on Sunday, calling the incident truly horrific. Related: United Airlines CEO calls dragged passenger 'disruptive and belligerent'Continue reading...
  
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• United Airlines boss finally apologises as passenger named

  12-04-2017 02:00 via scotsman.com
  
  The Scotsman - The CEO of United Airlines has issued a stronger apology about a passenger who was dragged off a United Express flight, calling the confrontation truly horrific.
  
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• United Airlines boss apologies for THIRD time over passenger dragged off flight promising 'we will do better'

  12-04-2017 02:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror - Beleaguered CEO Oscar Munoz, 57, has come under severe pressure over his handling of the incident
  
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• United Airlines apologises for dragging passenger off flight but the internet won't let them off the hook that easily

  12-04-2017 02:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror - Jimmy Kimmel led the gags, creating a mock safety video that he suggested should be used by United, which has been mocked mercilessly on social media
  
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• UK inflation rate remains at 2.3

  12-04-2017 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Airportwatch - UK inflation held steady last month, as rising prices for food and clothing were offset by lower air fares.
  
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• Uber PR boss Rachel Whetstone latest to quit company

  12-04-2017 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Ubers head of communications has become the latest executive to leave the embattled ride-sharing firm.
  
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• TSX ends lower despite Bombardier shares rising on merger report

  12-04-2017 02:00 via bnn.ca
  
  Other News Sources - Canada's benchmark stock index ended barely lower on Tuesday as financial stocks weighed, while a flight to safety helped gold miners and shares of Bombardier Inc jumped on reports it was discussing a merger of rail operations with Siemens.
  
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• Train operator drops plans for northeast cutssubscription

  12-04-2017 02:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - Plans to reduce CrossCountry train services to and from northeast Scotland have been scrapped.
  
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• Think tank provides guide for rail development

  12-04-2017 02:00 via ciltuk.org.uk
  
  Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - Drawing on international and national best practice, a new report by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC)
  
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• Supporters of a civil engineering plan that involves repurposing defunct London rail track say it could provide better value for money than the floundering Garden Bridge scheme.

  12-04-2017 02:00 via eandt.theiet.org
  
  Other News Sources - This unloved-looking bridge (pictured above) forms part of a derelict rail route that could be brought back into use as a flower-filled walkway under plans backed by an influential coalition of London businesses, Emp;T can reveal for the first time.
  
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• Stuck in a traffic jam? Get ready for takeoff subscription

  12-04-2017 02:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - Flying cars will be sold to the public by the end of the year under plans for the worlds first mass-market vehicle capable of taking to the skies.
  
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• String of cab firms run into problems with grand designs

  12-04-2017 02:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus - A STRING of local cab firms hoping to give transport giant Uber a run for its money have run into problems with a new branding idea.
  
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• South West Trains passengers warned of disruption during Easter bank holiday due to engineering work

  12-04-2017 02:00 via getsurrey.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -Rail users have been warned to check before they travel due to planned work around Waterloo and Twickenham
  
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• Smelling bad, dressing inappropriately and being too fat are among dozens of reasons airlines can eject you

  12-04-2017 02:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror - You may not have noticed these conditions - the contract of carriage documents can be up to 37,000 words long
  
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• Six jumbo jets long the £2.4bn ship that can lift an oil rig

  12-04-2017 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - As the Pioneer Spirit prepares for a record-breaking lift for Shell, we look at its role in cleaning up the North SeaFestooned with cranes, oil pipelines and manned by a crew of several hundred, the Pioneering Spirit sits in the port of Rotterdam like a giant marine version of a forklift truck.Next month this vessel, one of the worlds largest ships, will arrive in the North Sea and attempt to remove the 24,500-tonne top of a Shell oil rig installed during the oil boom years of the
  
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• Siemens shares spike on reports of Bombardier merger

  12-04-2017 02:00 via digitallook.com
  
  Other News Sources - German industrial giant Siemens chugged higher on Tuesday after reports that it has entered negotiations with Bombardier to merge the two companies train operations.
  
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• Siemens, Bombardier to merge their rail operations? (From DW, Germany)

  12-04-2017 02:00 via dw.com
  
  Other News Sources - Germany's Siemens and Canada's Bombardier are in talks to combine their rail operations, media reports have said. If successful, the move would strengthen their hand against the market leader from China, CRRC.
  
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• Siemens, Bombardier Said in Talks to Combine Rail Units

  12-04-2017 02:00 via bloomberg.com
  
  Other News Sources - Siemens AG and Bombardier Inc. are in talks to combine their rail operations, according to people familiar with the matter, potentially creating a business that could better fend off increasing competition from China.
  
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• Siemens, Bombardier in talks about rail JV -sources

  12-04-2017 02:00 via reuters.com
  
  Reuters News - FRANKFURT/BERLIN, April 11 Germany's Siemens and Canada's Bombardier are in talks to combine their rail operations, two people close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, an action that could strengthen their hand against Chinese state-backed market leader CRRC Corp .
  
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• Shares of Bombardier rise after reports of merger with Siemens

  12-04-2017 02:00 via montreal.ctvnews.ca
  
  Other News Sources - MONTREAL -- Shares of Bombardier were up more than four per cent Tuesday following a report that the company and German-based Siemens AG are in talks to merge their train businesses.
  
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• RENFE poised to join Virgins HS2 franchise bid

  12-04-2017 02:00 via railwaygazette.com
  
  Railway Gazette - UK: Spanish national operator RENFE is understood to be the front runner to join the Virgin Rail...
  
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• Queen Street rail services resume after landslip

  12-04-2017 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The line from Glasgow Queen Street station is open after a week of engineering work.
  
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• Plans to cut north-east rail services scrapped

  12-04-2017 02:00 via pressandjournal.co.uk
  
  The Press and Journal (Aberdeen) - The train company CrossCountry has now withdrawn a proposed timetable that would have resulted in four of the six services operating between Aberdeen and Edinburgh cut from December 2017.
  
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• Over 109 million of funding for driverless and low carbon projects

  12-04-2017 02:00 via ciltuk.org.uk
  
  Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - Business Secretary Greg Clark and Transport Minister John Hayes have awarded £109.7 million of government funding, alongside significant funding from industry, to help develop the next generation of driverless and low-carbon vehicles, as part of the Industrial Strategy and the governments Plan for Britain.Seven innovative projects will share grants from the latest round of funding from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), the joint industry
  
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• ORR to request process for improving NR route risk management

  12-04-2017 02:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  
  Rail Technology Magazine - The ORR is to request that Network Rail puts in place a process to improve risk management at a local level across all its devolved routes, ensuring that any changes occur safely and in compliance with health and safety law, its business plan for 2017-18 has stated. The regulator also said that...
  
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• Nice is more than a destination: what Ryanair can teach United Airlines

  12-04-2017 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - The budget Irish carrier had a terrible reputation for customer service until its notorious boss had a change of heart. Then the profits took off When I interviewed Ryanair boss Michael OLeary six years ago, he denied his budget airline had an image problem. Ryanair is responsible for the integration of Europe by bringing lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests ofmp;nbsp;pan-European peace, he said.There
  
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• New study to consider extending Borders railway to Carlisle

  12-04-2017 02:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  
  Rail Technology Magazine - Plans to potentially extend the Borders railway to Carlisle are to be considered, as Transport Scotland has commissioned a new report looking at ways to improve public transport services in the region. Subject to completion of the mandatory standstill period, Jacobs UK Ltd has been awarded the...
  
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• New Lower Thames Crossings to cut congestion and create thousands of jobs

  12-04-2017 02:00 via gov.uk
  
  Department for Transport - Preferred route for a new Lower Thames Crossing and A13 widening announced.
  
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• Nationalism may derail Bombardier deal logic

  12-04-2017 02:00 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com
  
  Other News Sources - NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Combining the Canadian firm's rail unit with Siemens' - and perhaps Alstom's - would help them compete with a Chinese rival. Past merger talks have failed, though, and growing government involvement in Bombardier signals the difficulty in keeping these discussions on track.
  
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• Map of ambitious 'Plymouth Metro' network with new train stations revealed

  12-04-2017 02:00 via plymouthherald.co.uk
  
  Plymouth Herald - A new train line between Plymouth and Tavistock could be in place within five years, connecting up with a cross-city tram-style Metro system by 2024.
  
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• Manchester airport adds 2.7m passengers in 12 months

  12-04-2017 02:00 via buyingbusinesstravel.com
  Buying Business Travel - Figures show its the second fastest growing large airport in Europe
  
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• M606 named the UK's third slowest motorway

  12-04-2017 02:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus - THE M606 has been named as the third slowest in the UK.
  
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• London Stansted Airport publishes March traffic figures

  12-04-2017 02:00 via cambridgenetwork.co.uk
  Other News Sources - London Stansted saw nearly 1.9 million passengers pass through the airport in March 2017.
  
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• Jet Time chairman acquires 20 of airBaltic

  12-04-2017 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Danish entrepreneur Lars Thuesen, who is 100 owner and chairman of Danish wet-lease operator Jet Time, has acquired 20 of airBaltic from German businessman Ralf Dieter Montag-Girmes.read more
  
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• 'Ive never had a career plan, I just did what I enjoyed' says Crossrail 2 chief

  12-04-2017 02:00 via cambridgenetwork.co.uk
  Other News Sources - Speaking to members of the Institution of Civil Engineers at the second Inspiring Engineers event, Michele Dix, Managing Director of Crossrail 2, gave a personal account of her career and what being an engineer means to her.
  
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• Is Derby train-maker Bombardier set to merge with rival Siemens?

  12-04-2017 02:00 via derbytelegraph.co.uk
  
  Derby Telegraph - Reports have suggested that Derby train manufacturer Bombardier is in talks with German rival Siemens about combining their train-making businesses.
  
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• Introducing the Big Rail Diversity Challenge 2017 - June 9

  12-04-2017 02:00 via railmagazine.com
  
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• How Heathrow plans to make a success out of Brexit

  12-04-2017 02:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- The airport has seen cargo volumes soar. Ithandled 148,000 metric tonnes of cargo last month - up 13 per cent on March 2016. That was the strongest increase for more than five years.
  
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• Hitachi on track to recruit for 250 jobs at newly built Doncaster rail depot

  12-04-2017 02:00 via ciltuk.org.uk
  
  Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport -Hitachi Rail Europe (HRE), the company building and maintaining new intercity trains, is on schedule to employ 250 people at their newly built Doncaster depot. The depot is hiring a brand new team to maintain new fleets of intercity trains inspired by Japanese bullet trains, which are due to start running next year, connecting northern cities to London and Scotland.Hitachi has invested £80m in the Doncaster site to create a facility that is c
  
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• Here's how £19m of investment into Dorset's roads will be spent

  12-04-2017 02:00 via dorsetecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - A MULTI-MILLION pound investment into Dorset's roads is set to resurface those deemed to be 'failing' - and prevent others falling into decline.
  
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• Here's how 19m of investment into Dorset's roads will be spent

  12-04-2017 02:00 via dorsetecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - A MULTI-MILLION pound investment into Dorset's roads is set to resurface those deemed to be 'failing' - and prevent others falling into decline.
  
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• Hendy: Rail industry must learn to relate to the world outside of it

  12-04-2017 02:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  
  Rail Technology Magazine - The railway must be adaptable, relatable and must improve its planning processes in order to grow wider economic growth in the future, a report by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC) backed by Network Rail chair Sir Peter Hendy has stated. The report, mp;lsquo;Classic Rail and Connected...
  
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