2.  Using rail or water transport instead of road for a
number of your cargo operations has a number of
benefits.
 It can be additional money-making and dependable
way of moving goods, particularly over long distances.

3.  There are moreover environmental and social
benefits, which can provide you and benefit over your
competitors when challenging for contracts and
develop customers' perceptions of your business.
 Making the change from road to rail or water can be
costly, mostly given the need for additional investment
in equipment and services.

4.  There are grants and financial maintain available
which can decrease or even remove these
additional costs.

5.  Most Lorries and trucks are power-driven by fossil
fuels - which produce CO2 emissions - as well as
further pollutants that influence both climate vary and
air quality.
 The UK is dedicated to reducing pollution
emissions, as well as CO2, and reducing the use of
road transport is one of the behaviors of achieving
this.

6.  In urban areas, sound from
road transport can also
cause troubles.
 Shipment transport both
contributes to, and is precious
by, road blocking.
 As roads become more
crowded, this causes delays
for all road users - and
increases mutually direct and
indirect costs for businesses.

7.  This helps with the price of using rail for all other
non-containerized cargo traffic or inland waterway
goods movements.
 Each system needs to exhibit the environmental
benefits of it and that the charge of rail or inland
waterways is added than road transportation.
 The environmental benefits are known as 'mode shift
benefits', and are intended in agreement with a
standard formula.

8.  In standard, a business can concern for both MSRS
and FFG financial support, but applications must
make this clear.
 Grants are complete in peace with the criteria of each
scheme.
 Businesses applying for MSRS are suggested to
organize a sketch out proposal for an informal
argument with the grant administrative body, which is
the Department for Transport in England.

9.  They will provide help in refining
the proposal.
 The formal application is made
on forms that can be
downloaded from Cargo Best
Practice website.
 Retain forms can also be
downloaded, and expenses are
made in arrears.

10.  For more information, please contact
Email us at:
aaat@aaat.com
Visit us at:
http://www.movetransport.com

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