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As part of its restructuring plan, Brussels Airlines’ management initially planned to reduce its workforce by 25%. However, with voluntary departures and early pensions, the airline will only have to lay off 60 employees in Belgium. All in all, 615 […]
The number of cargo thefts in Belgium is on the rise. And Minister of Internal Affairs, Pieter De Crem (CD&V), admits that the police are understaffed. “The units have to focus on other issues like migration.” Lack of capacity Last […]
France is scrapping the rail usage costs for freight trains until the end of this year and will halve them for the whole next year, 2021. France Prime Minister, Jean Castex, wants to boost rail freight transport and puts €35 […]
According to British researchers, electrified highways are the fastest and cheapest way to make cargo traffic carbon neutral. How it works It’s a system with electric overhead wires above the highway where trucks with a pantograph capture electricity to power […]
The use of robot trucks on a new automated ‘container highway’ is turning the Port of Rotterdam labor relations upside down. The Rotterdam port manager considers them a new milestone to a ‘smart port’, while the unions see them as […]
After months of stuck negotiations, Brussels Airlines, parent company Lufthansa, and the Belgian government have finally reached common ground on the matter of the Covid-19 aid. In total, the Belgian airline will receive 460 million euros to face the crisis. […]
The Flemish Waterway wants to create the possibility to have unmanned ships on the Flemish waterways by 2030. The agency is to invest 150 million euros in the project. Challenges The Flemish Waterway manages the more than 1 000 kilometers […]
The electric car manufacturer, Tesla, returned to profit in the second quarter. With a net profit of $104 million ($2,18 per share), the brand is doing much better than analysts who predicted a loss. The figures are vastly improved compared […]
Parcel delivery service provider, DPD, part of the French postal services, is planning to invest 60 million euros in new warehouses and a fully automatic sorting center for the next three years. The plans should create 500 additional jobs. Explosion […]
On Tuesday, the Trade Court of Nanterre has put the French long-distance coach operator Eurolines into compulsory liquidation, only one year after its take-over by German Flixbus. Management justified this situation by pointing at a difficult financial situation, which was […]
The Belgian rail freight sector wants to take twice as much freight out of traffic jams and transfer it onto the railways by 2030. Its federation, the Belgian Rail Freight Forum, drew up an ambitious long-term master plan for this […]
While other major truck manufacturers are still experimenting with hydrogen for heavy transport, Hyundai’s first ten fuel cell trucks of a fleet of 50 are on their way to Switzerland. The 34-ton Hyundai XCIENT Fuel Cell with a range of […]
The Public Prosecutor did not succeed in finding the cause of the accident with the Stint in Oss. Almost two years ago, there was a fatal accident with a Stint – a so-called ‘bolderkar’ in Dutch – on a railway […]
The Cairgo Bike project, a project of Brussels Mobility, has just been selected by the European program of Innovative Urban Actions to benefit from significant financial support. Within the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), this program offers […]
The European Parliament has voted the long-awaited ‘Mobility Package’, containing a series of directives to combat social dumping in the road transport sector in Europe. The directives also define the working framework for truck drivers. On the agenda: improvements in […]
The European Union sets the bar high in greening its industry and transport sector and goes all out for hydrogen to achieve its goal of reaching climate neutrality in CO2 emissions by 2025. From steel and cement industry to trucks, […]
The railway company Lineas, the former NMBS/SNCB Logistics or B Cargo, is asking the Belgian government for money to get through the crisis. NMBS, Infrabel, and banks are also being asked for financial breathing space. On Monday, Geert Pauwels, the […]
French industrial gas giant, Air Liquide, and the Port of Rotterdam are carrying the load of an alliance for an ambitious project to put some thousand hydrogen-powered trucks on Dutch, Belgian, and Western German roads by 2025. That includes a […]
French industrial gases multinational Air Liquide is going to build Europe’s first high-capacity filling station for hydrogen-powered semi-trucks at its Fos-sur-Mer site, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region in France. It will enable up to 20 refuelings of long-haul trucks per […]
Flanders is going to introduce new tariffs for kilometer tax on trucks as of July 1st. Lighter vehicles (3,5 up to 12 tons) will pay lower taxes while the heaviest trucks (more than 32 tons) will pay more. More weight, […]
The Flemish Environment Department (VDO) has purchased a new controlling device for the emission reduction systems aboard large trucks. Special software is detecting if these systems are manipulated, causing a huge increase in the emission of toxic gases. The problem […]
The French Citizens’ Climate Convention has presented 150 proposals to the Minister for Ecological and Solidarity Transition, Elisabeth Borne. Among them, a speed limit of 110 km/hour on highways, which is a sensitive matter in France. Their aim is to […]
With a direct train connection to Grenoble (France) the Antwerp transport company Aertssen Logistics has recently reduced the number of trucks it was sending over the Antwerp Ring by thousand, it claims. The company specializes in the storage, modification, and […]
In his speech for the (virtual) general assembly of the Belgian federation of car and bicycle importers, Febiac president Philippe Dehennin pointed at the many challenges the car sector is confronted with. He proposes a ‘green deal’ to create a […]
The Walloon Region has launched an investment plan to incite companies to use waterways. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 million euros will be allocated to incentives and to the update of the Walloon fleet to reduce its carbon footprint. According […]
Two Limburg family businesses – logistics group H. Essers and environment and energy Group Machiels – are planning to invest 30 million euros on the site of the former Ford plant. The project they’re investing in will be called ‘Port […]
French Economy Minister, Bruno Le Maire (LREM), announced a €15 billion plan to save the aeronautics sector, which represents 300 000 jobs in the country. The manifold plan includes new military orders, new export guarantees, investments in innovation, and the […]
The first week of June, car and freight traffic on the Belgian roads increased, and as a result, on some highways, structural traffic jams are back. According to the Flemish Traffic Center (Vlaams Verkeerscentrum), car traffic increased again with 5,1%, […]
Electrification is also entering the world of camper vans. Major German motorhome manufacturer Dethleffs is the first to introduce a series-produced electric camper van, the Globevan E:Hybrid. It is based on the Ford Transit Custom PHEV and costs €74 900 […]
The Belgian rail operator Lineas will be deploying extra freight trains from Antwerp to Germany this summer. The railway company expects that due to the drought, ship transport on the Rhine – the most important lifeline of the German industry […]
In the Netherlands, a newly created company called ‘Zero Emissions Services’ (ZES) is to offer a service of swappable battery containers for fully electric inland barges. The Dutch beer brewer, Heineken, is the first client to sign a 10-year contract. […]
With the 9 to 11 billion euros in aids that Air France-KLM will receive from the French and Dutch authorities, comes the obligation to reduce its CO2 emissions. The airline group will reduce its capacity in France by 40% in […]
Living close to railroad tracks can be a real ordeal. The noise pollution emitted by rail traffic can be unbearable in everyday life. Based on European directives, the Walloon Mobility and Infrastructure Public Service now has drawn up a draft […]
The negotiations about the fusion of the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge are going well. Normally, this summer, the final talks will take place, and decisions will be made. “The negotiations are going on in a positive and constructive atmosphere,” […]
The proportion of toll kilometers covered by Euro 6 trucks on Belgian roads, the trucks in the ‘cleanest’ emission category, has continued to rise significantly during 2019. While this was still 62,8% at the beginning of 2019, by the end […]
