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INNOVATIVE ways of powering trains are poised for mainstream use in the global transport industry. Today, the most common trains are still those powered by diesel engines, but there is a continuing shift towards electricity and alternative power sources.

“With rail expected to play an increasingly important role in future transport systems…there is a lot of focus on how it should be more energy efficient,” said Andrew Foulkes, a communications manager at Ricardo Rail, a UK-based railway engineering and consultancy firm.…

Wholesalers and their suppliers are overwhelmingly in favour of the UK remaining within the European Union (EU) despite frustrations over issues including corruption and overweening red tape from Brussels’ bureaucracy.

As the UK’s June 23 in-out referendum on the EU approaches, minds have been focussing on how the key areas of cost, labour mobility and common regulation might affect the overall wholesale picture – as well as supply segments including food, drinks and tobacco.…

THE COMMITTEE of European Sugar Users (CIUS) has called on the European Union (EU) to take urgent action to prevent EU confectionery and sweet bakery manufacturers facing a sugar supply crunch this summer. In a strongly worded message, the industry group has said that duties and levies should not be imposed on supplies of beet and cane sugar and the EU’s cane sugar ‘CXL’ duty should be scrapped immediately.…

Almost certainly the vast majority of UK-based Japanese-owned businesses want Britain to stay in the European Union (EU) after the in-out EU membership referendum planned for June 23.

However, few companies have stated this publicly and no Japanese company has yet said it would move elsewhere if there was a vote to leave.…

ACCOUNTANTS are starting to tangle with the knotty question of whether to support Britain remaining in or quitting the European Union (EU) after the scheduled in-out referendum on June 23. While many UK captains of industry and business have publicly called for Britain to stay in, citing the advantages of freely accessing the EU’s 503 million person market and its trained labour pool, the question for accountants is not that simple.…

Fears have emerged that UK minerals companies could be left behind in terms of vital research and development if Britain leaves the European Union (EU) following the now scheduled June 23 in-out referendum. Industrial minerals experts and industry chiefs have been focussing on the consequences of a ‘Brexit’, but – in contrast to other industries – they have been concentrating on the potential impact upon R&D – the key to the locating and developing new deposits.…

Uncertainty is growing within industry associations influencing the non-ferrous metals industry over the prospect of Britain leaving the European Union (EU) after a scheduled in-out referendum on June 23.

René van Sloten, executive director of industrial policy at The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), representing key suppliers to metal manufacturers, said: “If the result…is indeed that Britain would leave the EU, this would significantly impact on the way it trades with other European countries.…

THE BRITISH government has launched public consultation on plans to force foreign companies who want to buy property in England and Wales or secure English public procurement contracts to declare beneficial ownership information.

The UK department for business, innovation & skills wants comments by April 1 and says it plans to develop formal proposals later this year (2016).…

England’s High Court has backed the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over the way it handles and identifies electronic material subject to the right to non-disclosure through legal professional privilege (LPP). In a case brought by an individual under investigation, the court ruled on January 27 that the SFO did have a right to use in-house technical experts rather than external contractors to isolate material embedded in seized electronic devices, such as USB keys or laptops, potentially subject to LPP, before passing it on to independent lawyers for review.…

WITH advances in technology making it increasingly possible for malware kits to be bought and used by people with relatively little IT knowledge,

‘cybercrime-as-a-service’ systems are causing anti-fraud professionals sharper and sharper headaches. This is regardless of whether they work for banks, police forces or in company IT departments.…