French send wine by sailboat
5:00AM Monday February 25, 2008
By Peter Allen
French vineyard owners are returning to a slower pace of life by starting to export their wine by sailing boat - a method last used in the 1800s - to reduce their carbon footprint.
This month 60,000 bottles from Languedoc will be shipped to Ireland in a 19th-century barque, saving 22,680kg of carbon.
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Hillebrand launches Wine Train
| Logistics specialist JF Hillebrand has launched a new Tilbury-Daventry train service – dubbed The Wine Train – in a bid to reduce congestion and make significant environmental savings.
 The route, which launched last week, was the result of two years’ planning and a £1 million investment. As a result, the company explains, it will take 6,000 vehicles off the over-crowded M1 and M25, and save 1.7m tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Ben Grant, 19/03/08
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