Road transport always seemed to cause far more pollution than rail transport.

Some people made the point that carcass transport should replace live animal transport.

This makes international transport both more expensive and more complicated than domestic transport.

That takes the burden off overland transport by adding another link to the chain of intermodal transport.

The same conditions must apply to passenger transport as apply to freight transport.

Our island communities depend on ferry services as an absolute lifeline.

As regards requirements for increased ferry safety, the aims pursued are clear.

Instead, peaceful demonstrators were taken into custody when they arrived at the ferry port.

A series of far - reaching provisions was introduced in order to improve the safety of ferry passengers.

In particular, one in five of the life rafts on that ro - ro ferry failed to inflate.

You can move a sack of potatoes around Europe more easily than a citizen can move.

Every time you try to move a country or move a continent, history grabs you by the ankles.

We must move in this direction.

I think that would be a good move.

We can only welcome such a move.