Thirty-five Belgium-based companies with big names like Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé and Colruyt, but also smaller transport companies and transport federation Febetra, have written a letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, asking him to force truck manufacturers to […]
The maritime transport sector has to cut emissions at least by 50% by 2050, compared to 2008, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), part of the United Nations, has decided in London last week. Without measures emissions are expected to increase […]
The Flemish green party Groen wants to free big parts of the Antwerp inner city from cars and give priority to bikes, as was announced by Wouter Van Besien, candidate-mayor for Antwerp at the next local elections (October 2018). In […]
The last three years the cost of driving a diesel car has gone up with 30% because of taxation, says Flemish mobility club VAB. They analyzed the impact of the new Flemish traffic taxation (2016) and the gradual alignment of […]
On Wednesday Sweden has opened the ‘eRoadArlanda’, a stretch of two kilometre public road equipped with an electric rail in the middle of the driving lane to allow electric vehicles to charge while driving with a sort of upside down […]
The Antwerp Port company wants to manage its own railway network in the harbour, some 1.000 km, to “be more flexible” for shipping companies and double rail traffic in the near future. In May it will start to negotiate with […]
Car manufacturer PSA Group has announced it will invest in its Luton facility (UK) to produce 100.000 vans per year. The group wants to strengthen its position as the leader in this segment in Europe and also cut the ties […]
In March sales of cars (except the so-called super-small Kei cars) on the Japanese market went down with 4,9%. It was the sixth consecutive month that sales were decreasing. A clear illustration of the bad health of the Japanese car […]
Road-pricing for trucks in Belgium has no effect on the traffic jams. Last year the number of trucks even went up, increasing the periods and number of traffic jams. Road-pricing resulted in 676 million euro of revenues for the treasury, […]
Flanders fails when it comes to the technical check of trucks and buses, which is a real problem for traffic safety. According to the European rules Belgium has to execute 9.200 technical controls a year on the road, in addition […]
Road-pricing is a hot but difficult and unpopular topic, politicians like to avoid it. But as traffic jams increase every year, even policy makers are considering it in a not so far away future. Everybody wants to get rid of […]
The European Parliament and negotiators of the member states have reached an agreement on Tuesday to open a European register for CO2 emissions of new heavy-duty trucks and buses. For the commission it is a first step to come with […]
Dutch transporters federation Transport Logisitiek Nederland (TLN), is complaining about unfair competition as they have to invest in cleaner Euro 6 vehicles whereas their competitors from other (East-)European countries are not fined for entering with polluting semi-trucks in environmental zones. […]
It was already known that the city of Maastricht (the Netherlands) wants a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) from 2019 onward. To identify cars it will use the German example of an environmental vignette. Diesel cars produced before 2006 and petrol […]
The Walloon government and Sofico, its financial agency, announced on Monday that 166 million euro will be invested in smart phone apps, connected vehicles and dynamic weight control for semi-trucks, among others, as part of a series of measures for […]
At the Geneva International Motor Show we talked to Gerald Killmann, Vice President R&D at Toyota Europe. His statement is clear: hydrogen will happen, it is a necessity for the future. “The more renewable energy we get, the more hydrogen […]
Transport companies in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg no longer need a paper waybill for transporting goods within the Benelux. On Monday the ministers of the three countries gave the starting shot for a test period with digital waybills that […]
DrivOlution, a company specialized in monitoring and coaching drivers, analyzes the driving behaviour of 5.000 Belgian drivers, driving a total of 450 million kilometres yearly. The result is a significant decrease in fuel consumption and in traffic accidents, a total […]
American car maker Ford announced this week it has started delivering pizzas for Domino’s in Miami with self-driving cars. After a first limited test in Ann Armor, Michigan, in August 2017, this will be a two month full-fledged ‘proving ground […]
The world’s number one in logistics, DHL, has inaugurated on Thursday his new Brussels’ hub, quadrupling its capacity to 42.000 packages per hour. Being at the center of Europe, it is one of the five major distribution hubs of the […]
By 2025 electric vehicles will cost as much as diesel and petrol cars, says one of the top executives at Nissan. Small electric vans are already cheaper than diesel vans today, at least when you take their total cost of […]
Two independent university research teams (one in Bergen, Norway and one in Colorado, US) have come to the same conclusion: the frequent use of household (cleaning) products is dangerous for health and pollutes as much as all emissions caused by […]
The number of car sharing companies but also the number of car sharing methods is increasing rapidly. But when is sharing better than other forms of using/owning a car and at what cost? In Belgium the car sharer Cambio was […]
The constant growth of air transport will force the sector to recruit more than 600.000 pilots worldwide by 2036. “A real challenge”, stated the International Organization of Civil Aviation (IOCA) on Tuesday. “The number of commercial flights doubles every 15 […]
Offshore of its large southern harbour Zhuhai, China is creating the world’s largest playground for testing self-sailing, unmanned ships of the future. The area starting with 21 square km to be expanded to 771,6 square km, called Wanshan Marine Test […]
Eleven mayors of municipalities around Brussels airport are taking jurisdictional actions against the Belgian government because the new air traffic law is constantly postponed. The eleven municipalities (Steenokkerzeel, Zaventem, Grimbergen, Wemmel, Kortenberg, Herent, Tervuren, Dilbeek, Kampenhout, Halle and Landen) are […]
The Antwerp based airline company VLM Airlines opens two new destinations, Munich and Maribor. Behind the scenes however, there are worries about the Chinese investors pulling the plug. Yves Panneels, spokesman for VLM, reacts that there are no threats currently […]
Last year the ViaPass kilometre tax for heavy semi-trucks on Belgian highways has brought in 670 million euro. Remarkably only 21% of it was paid by Belgian trucks. Polish trucks accounted for 15%, doing most of the kilometres in Belgium […]
The capital cities of Estonia and Finland could be linked by the longest railway tunnel so far by 2040. It would link both cities in 30 minutes compared to two hours by ferry today. Cost price for this undersea project: […]
Assuming that air traffic will once again double before 2035, Europe will urgently have to increase the capacity of its existing airports and/or build new ones, otherwise 230 million passengers a year will be stranded each year. 2017 was the […]
Brussels Airlines CEO Bernard Gustin and his financial director Jan De Raeymaeker have been fired by mother company Lufthansa. The first is replaced by Christina Förster, until now commercial director. More news about the company’s future will be given by […]
The zero emission premium in Flanders for electric vehicles will not change in 2018 nor in 2019, and will stay at 4.000 euro. The same amount will now be paid to people buying a fuel cell car on hydrogen. Last […]
Since the road toll for trucks was installed on Belgian roads, the share of least polluting trucks rose to 50%, says Viapass, the governmental institution that coordinates the toll system. More than half of all truck kilometres on Belgian roads […]
State owned oil company Saudi Aramco is going to invest in the research on internal combustion engines (ICE). The aim is a reduction in fuel consumption of 40%. How much the company is going to invest is not known(yet), neither […]
The two German manufacturers Daimler and Volkswagen had a very good 2017. The first signs for 2018 are that this year even will be better. Two years ago the course of the VW actions fell to 86 euro because of […]
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