Brussels Airlines is doing remarkably badly in terms of the environment. The number of kilometres travelled last year also increased CO2 emissions from aviation. This puts the airline somewhere at the bottom of the list of environmental rankings for all […]
On airline tickets from airports in the Netherlands, travellers will have to pay approximately 7 euro tax from 2021 onward. The Rutte III government has announced this Friday afternoon. The measure does not apply to transfer passengers, passengers only changing […]
Since the beginning of the new high-speed train line project (TAV) that should connect Turin to the French city of Lyon through a tunnel dug under the Alps, the Piemont Region has been divided between supporters and opponents. Saturday, around […]
On Wednesday, a command centre for automatic drone flights was opened in Antwerp. This took place in The Beacon, a product development hub where a group of aviation, service and health care organizations under the name Helicus Aero Initiative (HAI) […]
Thirty new routes for super-trucks or ecocombis that connect to Flemish motorways have just been approved. That reports the Agency for Roads and Traffic (AWV). “Only the safest routes haven been selected”, the Flemish authorities say. Short history In mid-2014, […]
After painful discussions that went on deep into the night on Monday, the Transport Ministers of the EU member states have reached a compromise in the reform of road transport and to tackle social dumping. Eight member states rejected in […]
The new double-decker trains of the NMBS/SNCB are not available yet. In 2015, the Belgian public railway company placed an order of 1,3 billion euro with the Bombardier-Alstom consortium for 445 new wagons and locomotives that normally had to be […]
The Walloon Minister for Local Authorities, Valérie De Bue (MR), will allocate 1,5 million euro to help municipalities to reduce their fleet of vehicle’s CO2 emissions. Every new vehicle weighing less than 3,5 tons will have to be electric, hybrid […]
The Belgian production site of truck builder DAF Trucks, located in Westerlo (Belgium), has secured one of the biggest orders in recent years. The Lithuanian transport company, Girteka Logistics, buys 1.500 trucks that will be delivered as from from January […]
Increasing fuel shortages are caused by the low water level of the river Rhine in the Netherlands. Several days now, an increasing number of gas stations, mostly those without personnel, are not supplied anymore. According to Shell spokesman Tim Kezer, […]
Belgium is moving toward a reform of the famous ‘cliquet’ system. A political discussion should determine whether it will still be useful in the future because the current mechanism is primarily intended to standardize gasoline and diesel prices, which is […]
Today the French minister of Transport, Elisabeth Borne, launches the government’s legislation project on the future orientation of mobility (LOM). It wants to get better air quality, integrate new technologies and plan new infrastructures. It will be presented to the […]
The French Ecology Minister, François de Rugy, has announced that the objective is to produce 40% of the national electric energy needs in a sustainable way by 2030. At the same time, France has declared its support to the German […]
Transport companies more and more prefer to drive in the evening and at night to avoid traffic jams. Transport and Logistics the Netherlands (TLN) wants to investigate how this could be realized. Last year, daily traffic congestion costed the Dutch […]
According to a survey by Transport Market Monitor among thousand European transport companies, last year prices of transport services increased with an average of 5,17%. Two thirds of the interviewed transporters even expects a rise in prices with 1 to […]
The electronics chain, Coolblue, one of the Benelux largest e-commerce players, has started in Antwerp with the delivery of parcels at home by bicycle on Monday. The initiative is an example of the trend that delivery of parcels in cities […]
After many years of growth, sales of vans in Belgium seems to slow down and stagnate. According to the registration figures of car federation Febiac, 66.986 vans were sold between January and October, hardly 1% more than during the first […]
In Belgium, the number of people wearing their safety belt in the car is higher than ever. 95,2% of people are wearing their belt in the front seats of the car, 86,3% at the back seat, according to the most […]
The city of Amsterdam consists for one quarter of water and it’s a pity that today those water ways are not fully used yet. That’s why the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) is analyzing the possible use of […]
The European Parliament voted on Thursday in favour of a strong reinforcement of the rights of rail transport users. In the future passengers will get a better compensation in the event of train delays or cancellations and there must always […]
Dutch railway company, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), will seriously focus on taxi transport. From the end of this month, passengers will be able to book a low-cost ‘zone taxi’ home and vice versa at almost all stations via the NS app. […]
For the first time the European Union will also set limits for the emissions of truck transport. The truck manufacturers have lobbied extremely hard to reduce the ambitious goals, but they got strong headwind from the Parliament as well as […]
Chinese internet giant, Alibaba, confirms Liège (Belgium) will become its first European hub, not Maastricht or Weert, as was speculated in the Netherlands the past few weeks. This was made clear by Alibaba’s European top man, German Terry von Bibra […]
The Dutch government has decided to make truck traffic pay for the use of the roads but is taking previous criticism of the transport sector into account. So, some of the revenues of the taxes will be used to lower […]
The most effective way to fight congestion is to make drivers pay for using the road. The Dutch business community has become convinced of this. After all, the Netherlands must urgently do something to tackle their growing traffic jam problem, […]
France’s fifth ‘rail motorway’ connecting Calais to Orbassano, Italy, was opened on Tuesday to transport loaded trucks by rail. Back in 2000, French Environment Political Commission Grenelle aimed at developing the ‘rail motorway’ for transporting 500.000 trucks by 2020. In […]
The Belgian province of Antwerp has already three large parts of bicycle highways but two new routes will be added: Lier-Herentals and Lier-Aarschot. With the construction of the bicycle highways, the province of Antwerp is investing in safe and comfortable bicycle […]
Climate expert, Jos Delbeke, warns that we’re running out of time climate wise and that transport is one of the big problems in these. From February 2010 until the beginning of this year civil servant Delbeke was Director General (DG) […]
The electric wagon, Stint, or ‘bolderkar’ as it’s called in Dutch, “has rightly been removed from the public road”. That is the verdict of the Utrecht judge in the lawsuit filed by Michelle van Zundert from day-care centre, Het Kinderstraatje, […]
Last year the number of traffic jams in Holland increased, according to figures from the knowledge institute for mobility (Kennisinstituut Mobiliteit, KiM), costing the Netherlands 3,7 billions of euro a year. Some 1.000 km of traffic lanes will be added […]
A study of the federation of transport and logistics in Flanders (Transport en Logistiek Vlaanderen) has shown that the fleet of trucks has become greener the last two years. The sector expects that tendency to go on in the years […]
Stint Urban Mobility, the company of Stint inventor, Edwin Renzen, can no longer meets its financial obligations, the reason why it is filing for bankruptcy on Monday. Last month four children died when a Stint was hit by a train […]
Since the early 1990s, the Liefkenshoek tunnel to the Northwest of Antwerp has been the congestion-free alternative to the Antwerp ring road. This tunnel, however, a crucial link to the port of Antwerp, has reached its maximum capacity of 40.000 […]
The water level of the German Rhine river has attained a historical low and that causes a lot of transport problems as ships can’t pass anymore or have to reduce their cargo volume significantly. At the entrance of the Duisburg […]
Owners of a cargo bike with three wheels or more, are no longer allowed to enter the school street during rush hours. Due to ‘careless legislative work’, the tricycles under the cargo bike risk a fine. The Cyclists’ Union (Fietsersbond) has […]
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