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Commuters buying season tickets after January 4 face price rises of as much as 6 percentage points higher than the average figure announced in November , the passengers' watchdog has [...]

Richard Lambert, outgoing director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, is awarded a knighthood in recognition of a distinguished career at the Financial Times and, since he left the newspaper [...]

INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORT Disposal of 75% of Australia operations Proceeds to be used to pay down debt Dubai's DP World, one of the world's biggest shipping container terminal operators, is to [...]

An estimated 70 per cent of scheduled flights managed to depart from Heathrow on Wednesday as the airport struggled to get back into action, write Pilita Clark and Robert Wright [...]

One of Britain's leading commercial barristers is to carry out an independent investigation into long-standing claims of wrongdoing at Network Rail, the owner of Britain's rail network has confirmed. Antony [...]

Traffic While concern about carbon emissions has shifted the quest to curb congestion away from road charging, economic necessity could yet force policymakers into a rethink, writes Robert Wright Most [...]

Heathrow's second runway finally reopened late on Tuesday after nearly four days of paralysing disruption at Europe's busiest airport just days away from Christmas. But Colin Matthews, chief executive of [...]

travel & leisure The company that operates the Channel tunnel said it would sue the French and British governments for lost revenue if a safety rule dispute held up the [...]

There will be no direct high-speed rail services to Heathrow airport during the initial development of the system, the transport secretary said while unveiling plans for a London to Birmingham [...]

Industrial Transport Revaluation could boost port operator Forth Ports, the UK's last independent listed port operator, could be set for an upward revaluation of some of its extensive property portfolio, [...]

travel & leisure Deutsche Bahn service faced curbs EU in drive to enforce liberalisation Italy face demands from the European Commission to explain its ban on German-operated trains from stopping [...]

The government is to buy a further 250,000 tonnes of road-gritting salt for the nation's strategic reserve as ministers seek to prepare for an expected fresh bout of severe winter [...]

The main union for London Underground drivers plans to strike on Boxing day, unless management agree to improved pay for the day. Aslef said its members had voted nine to [...]

TRAVEL & LEISURE The only services running under new, liberalised European passenger rail rules have hit legal problems after Italian rail regulators said the trains could stop only at their [...]

industrial transport Pressure on SNCF over Siemens order Directors of Eurostar appointed by France's state railway resigned last week before the company signed an order for German-built trains, amid an [...]

All available capacity for trains on the main London- to-Birmingham rail route is likely to be full before a ded-icated high-speed line between the two biggest cities opens in about [...]

travel & leisure Italy's state railway is poised to become Germany's second-biggest passenger train operator after the consortium it is leading won an auction of some of Deutsche Bahn's assets. [...]

The rail industry's costs could be cut by up to [pounds sterling]1bn a year without affecting services, according to the latest version of a government-sponsored study into why the industry [...]

industrial transport The owners of Hapag-Lloyd, operator of the world's fifth-largest container ship fleet, confirmed on Tuesday that they are to launch an IPO for the company, barely a year [...]

Train operators and the rail network owner need fresh incentives to invest in new rail capacity, the transport secretary is expected to announce today, as part of moves towards reforming [...]

INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORT Owners forced to rethink oil usage Alternative power sources sought Nuclear propulsion could make a long-awaited breakthrough into powering commercial vessels after one of the world's leading ship [...]

Travel chaos As bad weather causes disruption across Europe, Robert Wright asks if Britons are right to complain Train services on the main routes in the capital have been more [...]

RMT, London Underground's biggest trade union, has threatened to step up industrial action in 2012 after the fourth in a series of one-day strikes concluded without a resolution to a [...]

A Japanese company that has waited nearly two years for the go-ahead to supply one of the UK's biggest train orders is still none the wiser after a ministerial inv-estment [...]

industrial transport Yildirim invests in container line End of year-long search for capital CMA CGM, operator of the world's third-largest container ship fleet, has brought to an end more than [...]

INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORT Group to buy half of tanker operator Move aims to cover all customer needs Japan's biggest shipping company is to invest in the fast-growing deep-sea oil drilling market [...]

F or Europe's normally slow-changing railways, the events below the arched glass roof of St Pancras station on October 19 represented a rare breakthrough. Before dawn, a gleaming ICE3 train [...]

The transport secretary will today give the go-ahead for work to boost dramatically the capacity on one of the UK's most overcrowded commuter routes - but its completion will come [...]

Rail passengers have accused train operators of concealing fare increases after they published only an average figure for rises due in January. Passenger Focus, the lobby group, said the 6.2 [...]

The rail minister and the capital's mayor have refused to be drawn on the timing and scope of the next stage in upgrading the cross-London Thameslink rail route , amid [...]

INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORT News analysis European carriers look poised to take similar steps, write Jeremy Lemer and Robert Wright The US has quietly extended security restrictions on air cargo, in effect, [...]

Denmark's AP Moller-Maersk has said it expects to report its most profitable year in its history in 2010, in a marked turnround after the oil and shipping group recorded its [...]

Unlimited fines could be levied on the rail infrastructure owner and the company that maintained a stretch of rail line after regulators started a prosecution over the fatal Potters Bar [...]

London's bike hire scheme will be extended to much of east London in time for the 2012 Olympic Games in the area, the London mayor's transport organisation has promised. The [...]

Industrial transport Denmark's AP Moller-Maersk has said it expects to report its most profitable year in its history in 2010, in a marked turnround after the oil and shipping group [...]

banks HSH Nordbank has been told by its majority owners to get rid of its chief executive in an attempt to draw a line under a series of scandals that [...]

Interview Kenichi Kuroya Chief executive of K Line A boyhood dream was the beginning of a long voyage to the helm, writes Robert Wright Kenichi Kuroya can date precisely the [...]

Future rail franchises should include clear obligations for operators to pay for new trains to curb overcrowding, a group of MPs says today. The recommendation is made by the Commons [...]

Canadian group to buy high-speed line Coalition ready to sell air-traffic stake Ministers look poised to press ahead quickly with sales of publicly owned infrastructure after higher-than-expected bids for the [...]

The UK has tightened up screening arrangements for air cargo from some of the world's most volatile countries, amid efforts after last week's attempted aircraft bombings to focus more firmly [...]

industrial transport Alstom has lodged a complaint with the European Commission as the French engineering group continues to try to overturn Eurostar's plans to order Velaro trains from Germany's Siemens. [...]

The two sides in the dispute over London Underground job losses remain as far as ever from agreement after the third 24-hour strike brought gridlock to many London streets . [...]

Security response Britain has banned air shipments of all printer cartridges by unapproved sources, in the most detailed response yet from a western government to last week's cargo jet bomb [...]

industrial transport Oaktree Capital Management, the biggest distressed debt and turnround investor, has snapped up big stakes in two shipping companies that needed cash to pay for new vessels. The [...]

The Conservative party's free-market ideals and its latest intellectual big idea promise to clash this weekend when Dover's Tory MP launches a campaign to block the privatisation of the town's [...]

Travel & Leisure Alstom's hopes of overturning Eurostar's planned order for German-built Siemens trains were nearly extinguished last night, after the English High Court rejected the French company's demand for [...]

The company that runs Britain's rail network has vowed to work more closely with its customers in future, after it was fined [pounds sterling]3m for the botched implementation of a [...]

Redesign at centre of court threat The losing bidder in one of the UK's biggest train tenders is considering legal action if Japan's Hitachi wins orders to supply a heavily [...]

Transport for London is to abolish some one-day travelcard fares covering Tube and train services that it says are lightly used and put up some others by significantly more than [...]

Transport Three years of above-inflation increases in rail fares were among the 'difficult choices' the transport department was forced to make in the review, said Philip Hammond, the transport secretary. [...]