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UK freight and air cargo companies have expressed their dismay and disappointment that the UK government has, as widely expected, decided to delay its decision on airport capacity for a further six months  ? to a date after the London Mayoral election.

Labelling it “gutless”, businesses ...

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  • Gary S Kendall

    December 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Once again we have been let down by our elected representative, the reason being is companies don’t vote! Those who support the urgent need for a third runway need to mobilise our resources. Employee’s, colleagues, business partners. etc etc. i.e. people, those same people need to put pressure on their elected representative, by it national, local or the Democratic republic of Harlington. If politicians see their vote going believe me they change attitude and position,.

  • John Roberts

    December 11, 2015 at 4:51 pm

    I think we have a slightly blinkered view on this, the airport isn’t expanding so that we can ship more freight, the main reason is passenger numbers.
    Don’t forget that exporters can still export as much as they want in the meantime and that export rates would be cheaper if didn’t have to fork out membership fees to various freight bodies.