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26-Jan-07, 04:50
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:

SCOTLAND'S ECONOMY NEEDS THE PORTS OF SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND

The Freight Transport Association's Scottish Freight Council has called for the Scottish Executive and Scottish MPs to lobby the UK Government for investment in the ports of south-east England. A key message coming from the Scottish shipper members of FTA at the January meeting of the Scottish Logistics and Supply Chain Forum was that it was vital for Scotland's economy that the UK retained port of call status for its south-east ports as they were the key economic gateway for exports from and imports to Scotland via fit for purpose Anglo-Scottish rail freight routes, now that Scotland had largely lost its own direct port of call status. ... [Read Full Article (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/article.php?id=432)]