Sentences with phrase «rail transport in»

The line will transform rail transport in London cutting journey times across the city, boosting jobs and economic growth.»

Not exact matches

The incident might result in restrictions on using rail to transport oil, which could increase the price discount for Canadian crude.

They argued transporting crude by pipeline would be safer than alternatives like rail, and charged Obama with hypocrisy for complaining about the lack of investment in U.S. infrastructure while obstructing an $ 8 billion project.

But it turns out, no one is interested in transporting oil by rail across B.C. — or so says CN.

Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

«Rail and supporting non-pipeline modes should be capable, as was projected in 2011, of providing the capacity needed to transport all incremental Western Canadian and Bakken crude oil production to markets if there were no additional pipeline projects approved.»

Companies in this industry lease out equipment for activities related to air, sea, and rail transport, as well as construction of highways, roads, tunnels, bridges, and oil drilling.

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

Bellemare has to win the favour of airlines, get the CSeries into production, fill his order books in the aviation and rail transport sectors and reassure markets that have lost confidence in his company.

And those nascent economies need infrastructure — electricity above all, transport across land (rail is most efficient) and in the air, oil and gas, public lighting, and basic health care.

As bad as the fight is over getting high - speed rail built between two cities in the U.S., now imagine the fight that would erupt if someone proposed building a superfast transport tube between New York and Mexico City or Los Angeles and Singapore.

For a bitumen project, the difference between pipeline and rail is small, once diluent transport is factored in.

SpaceX is building a test track for the Hyperloop high - speed rail that could transport passengers from San Francisco to LA in 30 minutes.

A vast increase in oil transport by rail surely has at least something to do with the accident — if the train hadn't been carrying oil, its destruction might have been less catastrophic — but there will inevitably be debate over the conclusion to draw from that observation.

Since the July 2013 Lac - Megantic fatal train disaster and other recent incidents involving oil by rail, Transport Canada has faced questions about whether it adequately addressed safety oversight concerns surrounding the transportation of dangerous cargo, which were repeatedly raised in internal audits.

«CN Rail has expressed a desire to transport bitumen by rail,» said the memo, sent from Wayne Wouters, the Clerk of the Privy Council Office, the central department in government serving Harper's office and cabiRail has expressed a desire to transport bitumen by rail,» said the memo, sent from Wayne Wouters, the Clerk of the Privy Council Office, the central department in government serving Harper's office and cabirail,» said the memo, sent from Wayne Wouters, the Clerk of the Privy Council Office, the central department in government serving Harper's office and cabinet.

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One spill is too many but pipelines are much safer than rail for transporting oil By Kenneth P. Green, Elmira Aliakbari and Ashley Stedman The Fraser Institute State regulators in... Read more»

If the pipeline does not go through (and even if it does), how do higher rail / truck transport prices factor in to their bottom line / viability?

Various experiences in many continents of the world show that mobilisation in favour of the reaffirmation or recognition of water, gas and electricity, of education, health, urban transport, rail as common public goods and services, pays off over time.

International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) 14 Darling Drive, Sydney, NSW 2000 Located in the heart of Darling Harbour, the ICC Sydney is easily accessible by public transport, including light rail, ferry and train and is only a 10 minute walk from Central and Town Hall train stations.

Qube operates shipping container import and export handling and road and rail transport services, and limited empty container storage in Sydney.

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Sector Insight publication is the first in a series exploring autonomous transport systems with works on road, rail and maritime perspectives to follow.

We've already set out plans this autumn for a huge investment in rail, and my RHF the Transport Secretary will set out in the new year plans to take High Speed 2 to the North West and West Yorkshire.

Track and train operations will be brought together in new rail franchises under plans announced by the Transport Secretary on Tuesday

«An important consideration is that our national infrastructure, which guarantees our energy and water supplies and enables safe and reliable use of road, rail and air transport, is increasingly interconnected and interdependent (for example flooded power stations mean power cuts, which result in telecommunications failures).

Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said: «It was Labour that announced an ambitious programme of rail electrification back in 2009.

It marks the second time in 10 days that Labour has put the boot into Grayling, after it emerged the transport secretary sent a letter to then London mayor Boris Johnson in 2013 saying he wanted to keep suburban rail routes «out of Labour's clutches».

Others have gone to proclaim Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, former Rivers governor, as another «super minister», in view of his no less challenging Transport portfolio, under which is Aviation and Maritime, not to mention rail.

Cross London Rail Links (CLRL) was set up in 2001 as a joint venture by Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT) to develop plans and costs for Crossrail.

High Speed Rail 2 (HS2) has come under fire from the chairman of Britain's first high - speed rail network, in a further setback for officials at the Department for TranspRail 2 (HS2) has come under fire from the chairman of Britain's first high - speed rail network, in a further setback for officials at the Department for Transprail network, in a further setback for officials at the Department for Transport.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R - Shirley) announced Thursday 11 union endorsements in his re-election bid, including the Suffolk County Correction Officers Association, Smart Transportation Divison of the Long Island Rail Road, Transport Workers Union Local 252 and Plumbers Local Union No. 200.

He had fallen out spectacularly with the current transport secretary Chris Grayling over a decision Grayling took in late November over the future of the East Coast rail line.

A recent government - commissioned report on Britain's future transport needs was unenthusiastic about the benefits of high - speed rail links, and said the government would be better to invest in small - scale improvements.

ABUJA — MEMBERS of the adhoc committee of the House of Representatives on failed rail contracts have summoned the Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi; Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, Seyi Sijuwade; former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Mohammed Bello Haliru; and former Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, to explain their roles in the alleged N1 trillion rail contracts scam.

Jones has often taken part in campaigns related to transport such as dedicating himself to promoting a new high - speed rail link connecting London to Harrogate to promote commerce in the region and campaigning for greener buses.

In London, the transport system simply wouldn't function, a representative from TfL told the room, without the contribution of EU members of the workforce, from rail engineers to the people who clean buses.

A Department for Transport spokesperson responds to the Commons» transport committee's report on high speed rail: «We welcome the select committee's report and note the support it shows for the need for a high speed rail network in Britain, and many of the proposals made in the government's consultation on High STransport spokesperson responds to the Commons» transport committee's report on high speed rail: «We welcome the select committee's report and note the support it shows for the need for a high speed rail network in Britain, and many of the proposals made in the government's consultation on High Stransport committee's report on high speed rail: «We welcome the select committee's report and note the support it shows for the need for a high speed rail network in Britain, and many of the proposals made in the government's consultation on High Speed Two.

Or Lord Adonis, whose views on education and transport (the two ministries in which he has served) chime with the Conservative leadership (just today he was promoting high speed rail in The Times).

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling sparked anger in July last year by supporting a new # 30 billion Crossrail 2 scheme in London and the South East days after a series of rail electrification projects in Wales, the Midlands and the North were axed or downgraded.

With the shift from rail to truck transport, use of the facility declined until it was closed in the early 1960s.

There is welcome investment going into transport in London and into the national rail network, but the relentless rise in fares risks many people no longer being able to afford to use the network.

But it will do little to cut carbon or entice people out of cars and planes, so the # 2 billion per year that the government has earmarked could be better spent on improving our existing rail network — as well as improving local transport in our towns and cities.

After a joke about sleeping with entrepreneurs - his wife Samantha, specifically, he moves on to name - check the high - speed rail network proposed by shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers on Monday before slipping in his priorities for both the NHS and the «broken society».

Conservative transport spokesman Theresa Villiers said the government was pushing up train fares «in a bid to price people off the railways and disguise their own glaring failure to provide extra rail capacity.»

Richard Brown's review of rail franchising for the Department for Transport stated that «quality has never been a determining factor in selecting the winning bid».

«If schemes like Crossrail, the bringing of local rail services under London's control with London Overground, Tube modernisation and the management of our buses go wrong, they are so large they will create not only a transport but a financial disaster for London with huge rises in fares and business rates.»

Last month the Department for Transport announced that up to 35,000 apprentices are set to be created over the next five years in the road and rail sectors.

The Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, on Wednesday, announced that General Electric, GE, would invest $ 2 billion in the country's rail projects.