UK Funding Diverts Heavy Road Transport to Water

The British Government''s Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded an £ 8.5m Freight Facilities Grant to Staffordshire-based Robert Wynn & Sons Ltd (RWSL) for the development of an innovative transportation system that will utilise shortsea routes and inland waterways to take ''abnormal indivisible loads'' off the UK''s congested roads network.

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