{"id":1626,"date":"2013-01-16T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T10:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:48:55","slug":"rail-freight-prices-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/rail-freight-prices-to-rise","title":{"rendered":"Rail Freight Prices To Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Rail Regulator\u2019s (ORR\u2019s) has announced its intention to raise charges for rail freight. The proposed increase could result in up to a 23% rise in tariffs to access tracks, with the transportation of certain commodities, such as spent nuclear fuel, seeing freight specific charges phased in between 2014 and 2019. As a result of this new commodity based charge, power stations, those in the steel sector and others could see a sharp rise in transport costs. The UK Rail Freight Group (RFG) have raised serious concerns over the proposed charges, Maggie Simpson, RFG Executive Director, commented: \u201cThe rail freight sector is committed to increasing its efficiency and contributing to a lower cost railway. But significant increases in access charges \u2013 such as the potential 23% rise for all traffic \u2013 risks de-stabilising the sector and forcing business back to road. We will be pressing ORR and Network Rail to ensure that a more satisfactory position can be reached by the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Rail Regulator\u2019s (ORR\u2019s) has announced its intention to raise charges for rail freight. The proposed increase could result in up to a 23% rise in tariffs to access tracks, with the transportation of certain commodities, such as spent nuclear fuel, seeing freight specific charges phased in between 2014 and 2019. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,201],"tags":[276,264,304],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}