European transport companies have filed a complaint against six truck manufacturers – DAF, Iveco, Daimler, MAN, Scania and Volvo/Renault – for the formation of a cartel in the period between 1997 and 2011. 1,2 billion euro The first claims were […]
Last week the Netherlands have been experimenting with 250 special trucks, driving the same route close after each other in a technique called ‘platooning’. Goal of the coupled trucks is to save space on the road, to save (5 to […]
The company ‘Drone-future’ wants to start a pilot project in Malines (Belgium) early next year to deliver parcels by a drone. “We want to be the first in the world to come out with a system that makes it possible, […]
The EU compromise on 35% CO2 reduction in 2030, concluded by the European Environmental Ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday, raised a storm of reactions ranging from ‘too little and disappointing’ over ‘acceptable and feasible’ to ‘unrealistic and dangerous’. An overview. […]
Russian cargo airline, AirBridgeCargo, has chosen Liège Airport as its European hub with thirty flights per day and 400 new jobs in 2019. That new contract will push Belgium’s first freight airport into the top five of Europe by 2020. […]
According to a study published by the French consumer association, UFC, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an electric car is lower than that of a petrol or diesel car if you keep it more than 4 years. The […]
The EU member countries have finally reached an agreement on the reduction of CO2 emissions for cars: in 2030 this reduction has to be 35%, a compromise between the Commission’s proposal (30%) and the aim of the European Parliament (40%). […]
The Walloon government has decided to extend the number of speed cameras on the Region’s road by encouraging the installation of average speed zones. Brussels’ first average speed check zone on the Leopold III boulevard is now active. During a […]
A first for the city of Ghent: residents who order their groceries online from the supermarket chain, Lidl, receive their order within two hours by bicycle. In this way, the store chain responds to the radical circulation plan that keeps […]
The European car industry reacts furiously to the 40% CO2 reduction targets voted in the European Parliament last week. “The vote proves that the power of the car sector is waning”, says Kathleen Van Brempt (sp.a), Belgian member of the […]
From the second part of 2019, five companies will be carrying out drone test flights for the transport of medical packages between hospitals in Antwerp. The test flights are part of MEDRONA, a project with a financing of 4 million […]
Last year the transport sector has massively recruited drivers from countries outside the European Union, as was revealed by a study from Investigate Europe and Knack Magazine. “Apparently, even Polish truck drivers have become too expensive”, concludes Frank Moreels, president […]
By the end of this month researchers from the Louvain University (KULeuven) will start to test autonomous (push-towing) canal barges on the river IJzer, between Heernisse (Diksmuide) and Nieuwpoort. A large-scale model will be used to navigate the river, including […]
Four Belgian engineers are going to have a shot in May 2019 at having the first solar boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean completely autonomous from Sable-d’Olonnes (France) to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The boat will find its own way […]
On Monday, the city of Antwerp introduced its first courier service with delivery bicycles. ©, already operational in Ghent for six years now, expands its activities to the city of Antwerp. Smart mobility solutions The company is one of the […]
Starting next year, the French government wants to tax foreign trucks for using French roads. “We are working on a kind of vignette that will make it possible to tax foreign trucks that only cross France”, says Minister of the […]
The Ghent digital traffic platform, TMaaS, which groups the data from different data and transport companies on a central mobility dashboard, has won the ‘Bold Measure’ award of the city network, CIVITAS, in Umeå, Sweden for its daring and innovative […]
Flemish Minister of Mobility, Ben Weyts (N-VA), wants to give inland navigation an extra boost with an 81,5 million-euro investment via the Fund for One-Off Expenditure (FFEU), a fund fed with surpluses from the Flemish budget. In the first half […]
In the Brussels Capital region, the Agostini Group shares the impound towing market with A.R.W. and YES Dépannage. An operator monopoly filled with problems with the law, arrangements under the table and costly services. When a vehicle is parked in […]
Dutch railway network company, ProRail, hopes to start the first live tests with a self-driving freight train on the Betuwe line at the end of this year. As soon as the Environment and Transport Inspectorate gives the go-ahead, expected within […]
A study of the German Air and Space Centre, DLR, ordered by Greenpeace states that the internal combustion engine (ICE) has to be abandoned in 2028 if the European Union wants to realize its climate commitments made in Paris. Greenpeace […]
The Bike Brussels show on the Tour & Taxis site follows the increasing craze for bicycles by presenting and showcasing for three days innovations and revolutions in the world of the two-wheeler and micro-mobility. From Friday and until Monday evening, […]
More and more motorway parking lots are closing at night for truckers because of security problems. G4S MD, Jean-Paul Van Avermaet, thinks that a far better security is possible but transporters have to pay their share. Local mayors have recently […]
German truck and bus builder MAN, part of the Volkswagen Group, has delivered the first nine 26-ton eTrucks to a consortium of 15 large Austrian distribution companies (united in the Council for Sustainable Logistics) to be tested in daily conditions. […]
Ships will also need to plug in or sail on hydrogen in the near future. At the World Port Days in Rotterdam electrically powered container ships, which will be launched in 2019 and hydrogen sailing ships from late astronaut, Wubbo […]
The city council of Ghent has decided that more than 2.000 shared bikes may be put into circulation. Three private players will each, possibly before the end of the year, be able to rent out up to 750 bicycles, which […]
On Monday, socialist civil servant’s union, ACOD, had blocked several locks in Flanders in protest against the reformation of the civil servant’s statute. Almost 200 canal boats were blocked. The union started the action on Sunday at the Wijnegem lock, […]
According to researcher specialized in touristic transport at the Breda University, Paul Peeters, tourism counts for a major part of the world’s CO2 emissions and planes are responsible for more than half of it. Inventions and new technologies won’t be […]
Belgian rail infrastructure managing company Infrabel has launched the largest recruitment campaign in its history: by the end of 2020 the company intends to recruit another 1.400 new employees. The search for woman is particularly important. Woman currently account for […]
Even though the number of accidents involving a truck on Belgian roads has reduced in ten years, data show an increase of 4,5% in Wallonia alone in the last five years. The death toll of truck accidents is also three […]
With almost 5.000 vacancies, the shortage of truckers has never been so acute in Belgium as in recent months. To tackle this problem, Belgian haulage company, Xwift, came up with a creative staff policy, such as offering truckers a company […]
Danish airline company, Primera Air, is going to offer direct low-cost long-distance flights from Brussels to the United States as from 2019. There will be three destinations: New York, Washington and Boston. The company will use the most recent version […]
Belgian beer giant, AB inBev, announced that its Brazilian division, Ambev, will be equipped with 1.600 electric Volkswagen trucks by 2023. The company also ordered 800 fuel-cell tractor-trailers from Nikola Motors Company and 40 Semi from Tesla. Ambev, the Brazilian […]
This week the Danish shipowner, Maersk, is sending its first container ship ever, with containers full of frozen fish, from the Russian Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg along the northern route. Until recently, this northern sea route – via the Bering […]
The Dutch railway network measures more than 7.300 kilometres and utilizes virtually all its capacity because of the continuous growth of passengers, number of trains and train kilometres. Creating extra capacity is difficult because there is almost no room left […]
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