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The air cargo industry at Brussels and Liège airports pleads for measures against air traffic control organization Skeyes’ staff strikes. The actions over the pas few months, demanding more staff, have caused serious economic and reputation damage. Flemish Mobility Minister, […]
Lab Box, the start-up vehicle of the listed car group D’Ieteren, buys 80% of the Brussels chauffeur service CarASAP, ‘a B2B Uber’, which allows customers to book limousines with a private driver. Unlike Uber, CarASAP only targets companies. The start-up […]
On Thursday, a new app was officially introduced in the harbour of Zeebrugge. ‘Flux’, as the app is called, is meant to make truck traffic in the harbour and on international roads safer and more fluent. The app can be […]
As from Monday, the city centre of London has become an Ultra low emission zone (ULEZ). Also the French Préfecture du Nord (Lille) will impose severe restrictions to ban the most polluting vehicles from the city of Lille. Limiting traffic […]
German authorities have detected fraud with the pollution reducing system on an increasing number of trucks on the roads. The fraud can be caused by an add-on electronic device or by manipulating the onboard software. It was the German newspaper, […]
American oil giant, ExxonMobile, has opened its brand-new refinery in the harbour of Antwerp to produce cleaner marine diesel with less sulphur. A billion euro investment not as much inspired by concerns about the climate – where the company never […]
Several Flemish companies, cities and Flemish authorities are joining forces to make transport ‘greener’ in the cities. To show their commitment, 35 partners signed an agreement on Tuesday. Among those partners are cities like Antwerp, Ghent, Leuven and Mechelen, and […]
The court has started seizure of Jost Group Trucks, starting with 20 on Monday. The seizure is part of an ongoing investigation against Jost Group on social fraud using foreign subsidiary companies. A spokesperson from the transport company has confirmed […]
Minister of Work, Kris Peeters (CD&V), launched the website mobiliteitsbudget.be on Monday. Employers and employees with a company car can surf to it to find an answer to all their questions about the measure, approved by Parliament at the end […]
Dutch retailer Albert Heijn (AH) is going to test a Swiss-German autonomous delivery robot to deliver groceries. As legislation won’t allow such robots yet on Dutch roads, the test will be done at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. Albert […]
Maximum speed on the Antwerp Ring will probably be reduced to 80 km/hour. Today it still is 90 to 100 km/hour. The lower speed limit will be introduced by 2025 and is one of the measures to improve traffic safety […]
VDL Automated Vehicles, a division of Dutch bus and car (Nedcar) builder VDL got an order from Singapore harbour operator PSA for 80 full autonomous container trucks. By 2023 they should all drive 24/7 on the harbour terrain moving containers. […]
The Liège court of indictment has approved the seizure of 346 trucks of transport company Jost Group. Belgium’s second largest transporter is accused of social fraud amounting to 55 million euro by ‘flagging out’. Jost Group is said to employ […]
The Albert Channel is the most polluting of all Flemish waterways. According to figures of the Flemish environmental organization, VMM (Vlaamse MilieuMaatschappij), the ‘artery’ of the Antwerp harbour area represents 38% of nitrogen oxide emissions. These figures – most recent […]
Six Dutch multinationals – FrieslandCampina, Unilever, Heineken, DSM, Philips and Shell) – have decided to make their shipments more sustainable. In the future, their container ships will run on renewable fuel. A first Maersk test ship will sail from Rotterdam […]
The Brexit date has just been postponed to the 12th of April as we write this. In case of a no-deal Brexit, the British government is preparing Operation Yellowhammer. This is a 29 million additional emergency plan securing traffic flow […]
Not expanding the Low-Emission Zone (LEZ) in Antwerp will cost 3.116 years of life. That is the stunning result of calculation based on a feasibility study by the leader of green political party, Groen, Wouter Van Besien. “So, the only […]
Uber Freight is launching its transport services in Europe. Just like their taxi service system, companies can connect with truck drivers through an app. The first of those activities will start in The Netherlands, later elsewhere in Europe. The news […]
A number of Belgian transport companies are practicing social dumping, employing Eastern European truckers working for low wages. To do this, they are using fictitious companies, post boxes and other inventive tricks. In Slovakia alone, dozens of Belgian front companies […]
The car tax reform is dividing Belgium. Wallonia wants to introduce a flat rate vignette system while Flanders prefers the idea of a kilometre tax. Both visions of mobility have pros and cons. According to KU Leuven researchers, the best […]
Flemish green party Groen has launched on Thursday its climate action plan for coming elections in Belgium. It builds upon six ‘routes’ with mobility as one of the spearheads. In this Groen is not averse to use heavy artillery against […]
After a ‘site acceptance test’ last week, the Swedish Transport Agency is the first European authority to allow robot-trucks to be tested on public road(s). Developer Einride and logistic transport company DB Schenker got green light to let the cabin […]
Belgium pays 451 million euro per year to trucking companies that fill up with diesel at Belgian petrol stations. Of this, 165 million euro is paid to foreign companies, which partly cancels out the income from the kilometre charge for […]
Last Saturday, the first ‘Alibaba express train’ has left the Chinese city of Zhengzhou with destination Liège (Belgium). A 8.000 kilometre journey the train will make twice a week to transport parcels. The project should save 30% of logistic costs […]
Next Tuesday, at the Council of Environment Ministers, Belgium will propose to its European partners to introduce a tax on commercial aviation. It could be a tax on kerosene or on airline tickets. Belgium is following the example of France […]
On Wednesday, American FedEx announced that it is going to test a robot to deliver parcels and letters. The ‘SameDay Bot’, as the device is called, will be able to drive on the pavement or along the road, it even […]
On Friday, the Flemish Government approved the framing for autonomous inland navigation vessels on almost the whole territory. Pilot projects could start in the second half of this year. “Flanders is taking a pioneering role”, says Minister of Mobility, Ben […]
By 2030, twice as many goods will have to be transported by rail. It is a lot more ecological and it would also make our traffic more fluent. However, different handicaps might slow down the breakthrough of the freight train. […]
Belgian-Luxembourg transport giant, Jost Group, is furious about the confiscation of 19 trucks by the federal public prosecutor. The company is accused of social fraud, social dumping and human trafficking. Summary proceedings The federal public prosecutor wanted to confiscate 300 […]
Negotiators of the EU Parliament and the European Council have come to a final agreement to reduce CO2 emissions of trucks by 30% (compared to 2019) in 2030 and by 15% in 2025. These are the first emission rules for […]
Belgian national mobility club Touring pleads for a re-federalisation of decision making about mobility and wants a Marshall plan for Belgian transport and its infrastructure. In view of the coming general elections (May 26th 2019), the mobility organisation has send […]
Last year the average length of the daily traffic jams in the Flanders Region has ‘shrunk’ with eight kilometres to 150 km. But not on the Brussels’ and the Antwerp ring roads. Ghent meanwhile fears if Antwerp solves its traffic […]
According to an estimation of Transport and Logistics in the Netherlands (Transport en Logistiek Nederland, TLN), there must be 136.000 trucks driving around in the Netherlands, of which 2.000 so-called super trucks or eco-combis. Breakthrough? Since Belgian and German authorities […]
Logistic service provider, H.Essers, and private railway company, Lineas Intermodal, have launched a direct rail connection. It’s the first direct rail connection between Belgium and Italy, connecting Genk (Limburg, Belgium) and the Italian port of Trieste (Italy). Secured/cold chain transport […]
On Tuesday, Dutch State Secretary for Finance, Menno Snel (Democrats 66), has presented a European tax on CO2 emissions of airplanes. He emphasized the urgency for measures related to climate change. Most polluting Minister Snel wants a tax on the […]
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