The Latest Breaking News from Transport

The Transport Secretary said he is doing “all I can to cripple Russia’s aviation and shipping industries” following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transportunion, said it amounted to “shocking exploitation”.

It came as Tory MPs abstained in a vote that would pave the way to end P&O-style fire and rehire practices

Sacked P&O workers watched in the House of Commons public gallery.

Transport Minister B. Sriramulu on Monday told the Legislative Assembly that the Transport Department officials would be suspended from services for dereliction of duty for their failure to check overcrowding of the private bus involved in an accident that claimed the lives of six persons in Pavagada.

Six potential locations for a Southern Land Bridge connecting the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman coasts will be proposed to the Transport Ministry this week, according to the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning (OTP).

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he had taken ‘rapid action’ in the case.

Admitting that no government buses are plying in the area which saw the ghastly accident in Tumakuru district, Transport Minister B. Sreeramulu has said that government is thinking of cancelling permits of private buses and running KSRTC buses instead.

The Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee wrote to the chief executive of P&O and Scotland’s Transport Secretary.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said lifting the requirements would allow ‘greater freedom in time for Easter’ to go abroad.

The transport group faces total costs of £87.5m - higher than anticipated