Last year more cyclists and pedestrians died in Antwerp traffic. It enhances the discussion whether it is due to the increase in the number of cyclists or the inadequate infrastructure. Moreover, the new Flemish Mobility Decree threatens to undermine the […]
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said in an interview to the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he was talking to the Norwegian low-cost carrier Norwegian regarding a possible take-over. IAG, the parent company of British Airways is also interested. Norwegian is the third […]
On Thursday the EU decided that from 2023 onward, the share of palm oil in biofuels should go down. From 2030 palm oil should no longer be found in European car tanks at all. This decision does not go as […]
The Japanese giant Toyota announced on Wednesday an investment of 1 billion dollar in Grab, specialist in chauffeur-driven passenger cars in Southeast Asia. Grab, Uber’s Singaporean competitor, is strengthening thus its presence in services in the face of a rapidly […]
The Belgian railway company is continuing its plan for a more sustainable environment by installing 6.100 solar panels on the roof of its Forest/Vorst workshop. When production is high, they will also provide electricity to the company’s offices. Go greener […]
Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, met with car manufacturers and mobility service providers this Monday to study other solutions of shared electric mobility in the capital. Autolib, created and operated by French group Bolloré, is turning out to be a […]
The Brussels mobility problem keeps foreign investors away from Belgium’s capital. That is what consultancy agency Ernst & Young (EY) says in its annual survey of investment in our country. The foreign investments in Belgium are reaching record levels, but […]
Statistics are rarely so revealing: the number of speed pedelecs in Belgium has risen in the past six months from 6.760 to 9.521. Almost half of all new super fast e-bikes, up to 45 km per hour, were purchased in […]
The 125A train line previously reserved for commercial trains will be open to passenger trains from this Sunday. It will connect Seraing to Liège in only eight minutes. Presented last year in the Liège Province’s new mobility plan, the 125A […]
French Michelin researcher Agnès Poulbot received the award of ‘European Inventor of the Year’ for creating a truck tire that can ‘regenerate’ its tread. She shares the award with her deceased colleague Jacques Barraud. Less fuel and less rolling resistance […]
Daimler’s Trucks and Buses division presents two full electric Freightliner semi-trucks, its most popular brand in the US, to be tested from this year on by some 30 clients before going into mass production by 2021. 400 km range The […]
The Transport Commission of the European Parliament has agreed on Monday with a series of measures to tackle social dumping in the transport sector. Truckers will be paid according to their home country rates for international transport, but at the […]
More than 64.700 trucks from Belgian haulers are driving on our roads today. That is 20% more than four years ago. This is evidenced by figures published by the sector in connection with the three-day truck salon ‘We Are Transport’, […]
Chinese internet giant Alibaba, Asian counterpart of American Amazon, is looking at Liège airport to set up its European bridgehead, with a gigantic logistic and distribution centre of several hectares at the north side. Nothing is signed as such, but […]
In the future the job of truck driver will become far more technical – comparable with an airplane pilot – and trucks more autonomous. That’s why transport company Van Dievel in Mechelen (Belgium) changed the job title of ‘trucker’ into […]
The International Energy Agency’s latest report shows that more than one million electric cars (EVs and PHEVs) were sold last year, representing a growth of 57%. More than half of them were sold in China. Increasing steadily With 1,1 million […]
In the new pump installation and hydropower station of the Albert channel in Godsheide – Hasselt (Belgium) three gigantic Archimedes’ screws were installed on Tuesday. The colossal screws – 22 metre long, 4,30 metre diameter, weighing 100 tons – are […]
Taking the bus or tram in Flanders has never been as ‘expensive’ as it is now. According to figures from Minister for Mobility, Ben Weyts (N-VA), those who did so last year paid an average of 21% of the real […]
Shell opened its first LNG filling station for trucks in Herstal, near Liège, on Monday. The company wants to open three more LNG stations in Belgium in the coming months. LNG stands for Liquefied Natural Gas and is regarded as […]
Although the Brussels Region, Charleroi and Mons have prohibited their use, quad bikes have been involved in 222 accidents in the last three years. According to the Vias Institute, “quad bikes are extremely dangerous”. 8 killed and 214 injured Since […]
According to a study of Brussels university VUB, digging a new tunnel to connect the train stations of Brussels South and Shuman through Brussels Central could help to unclog the Brussels North-South train line. In the study entitled ‘Rail 4 […]
Technologically speaking it would be perfectly possible to have a self-driving van to deliver packages into the city, as was shown during a three-day test in the most important shopping street (Bruul) in Mechelen (Belgium). The practical organization, however, is […]
Volkswagen is still the most stolen car brand in Belgium, followed by Citroën and BMW. On average 12.000 cars and 1.400 trucks are stolen per year in Belgium. Top 10 In this year’s top ranking of stolen cars by the […]
If it were up to Europe, bus drivers would soon be confronted with a harder and busier work schedule. The proposed change in the working conditions of professional bus drivers doesn’t make the unions happy. It’s one of the reasons […]
Japanese logistics specialist Nippon Yusen Kaisha broadens the investment in its car terminal with 45 million euro, making the Port of Zeebrugge at the Belgian coast the largest in the world capable of receiving 16 car carriers at the same […]
The Belgian Professional Union for Transport and Logistic (UPTR) is pleased with new truck emission reduction standards, but regrets somehow Europe didn’t go further than a 15% reduction in CO2 by 2025, in stead of he 24% the sector proposed […]
Dutch truck builder DAF and coach and bus builder VDL unveiled their co-developed full electric semi-truck on Wednesday in Eindhoven (Netherlands). The CF Electric semi-truck has a range of 100 km on pure battery power, recharges in half to one […]
The freight transport sector is booming in the Belgian capital, not least thanks to e-commerce. It leads to enormous needs for small storage places and drop-off points scattered all over the city. This is what emerges from a study by Perspective.brussels and […]
The European Commission has created new emission standards for trucks. By 2025 they will have to cut their CO2 emissions with at least 15%. This reduction should double by the year 2030. On Thursday the European Commission will put forward […]
Today the region of the Ghent harbour, between Ghent and Zelzate, only has a railway line with diesel trains for transporting goods. Political party Open Vld would like to have a railway connection for public transport too, but would rather […]
Total announced on Thursday that it will buy 25% of the US company Clean Energy and become the largest shareholder. This 83,4 million dollar deal still has to be approved by the company’s shareholders on June 8th. Leader in CNG […]
Seeing the upcoming ban on diesel in cities, DHL decided to create its own electric delivery van four years ago. This year the company will open a new production line to double the current number of 50 vans a day. […]
Currently, taking into account the school bus lines, nearly half of the TEC bus lines are outsourced to private companies. Walloon Transport Minister Carlo Di Antonio (cdH) wants to stop counting these school runs in the statistics to increase the […]
Last year Flemish authorities set aside 36 million euro subsidies for transport companies willing to invest in green and modern trucks. Since the introduction some thousand companies submitted an application for it and Flemish government already paid out 10 million […]
Wallonia will launch a new unique roadside assistance system to get any car or wreckage off the road as quickly as possible. The Siabis+ program aims at reducing traffic caused by accidents on the motorway or road. “There might be […]
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