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Understand how trading conditions and insurance can limit the financial risk for freight forwarders.
Guidance for haulage companies and commercial drivers moving accompanied (self-drive) RoRo freight and unaccompanied RoRo freight between Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and the European Union.
Use this checklist to help secure your vehicle to stop people using it to enter the UK illegally.
How to account for VAT on services when a vehicle, ship or aircraft is provided, together with a driver or crew for the transport of goods.
How specialist removals companies can apply for an international removal permit for European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) member countries.
Information for companies applying for mode shift revenue support and waterborne freight grant schemes, which offer help with rail or water freight.
Vehicle operator licences, goods vehicle and bus and public service vehicle operators, employing drivers
A list of road haulage companies that are members of a scheme to reduce the risk of illegal migrants hiding in their vehicles.
Explains how to access funding to transport freight by rail and water, rather than by road, and provides details of grants awarded.
Freight forwarders oversee the worldwide movement of cargo, packing, documentation and customs clearance, on behalf of importers and exporters.
How road transport companies and their drivers must secure their vehicles to stop people using them to enter the UK illegally, and to avoid being fined.
Find out which licences and permits you need to operate vehicles with a gross vehicle weight above 3.5 tonnes on international journeys from the UK.
Find out how you can hire a person or business to deal with customs for you.
Check which documents you need to carry if you're the driver or a passenger in a lorry or other heavy goods vehicle (HGV) that crosses international borders.
Research identifying the issues and risks of a UK road trial of truck platooning technology, which enables vehicles to move as a group.
Find out about safety and security requirements that apply to goods entering and exiting the UK.
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