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The Commission welcomes the agreement reached on 7 July 2023 at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to revise its 2018 strategy on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships. …

Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy, and Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO of Port of Antwerp-Bruges, met today in the Antwerp Port House. …

Mercedes-Benz just became the first German carmaker to join the NACS trend. The company will integrate Tesla’s de facto North American Charging Standard into its EV fleet in the US and Canada from 2025. …

Switzerland is set to replace its manual toll collection system with the European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) by the end of 2024, phasing out border customs clearance terminals for the Heavy Vehicle Fee (HVF). …

Copenhagen Malmö Port(CMP) has become ECG's latest member! …

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has agreed on a revised strategy to decarbonise the global shipping industry. The agreement will be formally adopted today but no further changes are expected by delegates. …

International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopts revised strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping. …

Switzerland is set for a major change in its toll collection system as the existing method of collecting Swiss tolls, known as the Performance-related Heavy Vehicle Fee (LSVA), will be completely overhauled by the end of 2024. …

The European Parliament’s (EP) TRAN Committee held a first exchange of views on a forthcoming own-initiative report on “Building a comprehensive European port strategy” with the Rapporteur Tom Berendsen (PPE). …

The European Union’s Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (EU MRV) dataset for shipping’s European CO2 emissions for the year 2022 has just been published, with the data highlighting some significant year-on-year changes from 2021 desp …

Shipping’s international regulator set non-binding emissions goals that fail to align with restricting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to industry experts. …

Grimaldi has thanked the firefighting teams which put out a fire onboard its Ro-Ro vessel, but which saw two firefighters die in the blaze. …

Car registrations in Germany have risen by 13% in the first half of 2023 - compared to the same period in 2022 - with the number of newly registered electric vehicles increasing most significantly, according to  …

UK automotive manufacturers have shrunk the carbon footprint of production to its lowest level on record, reducing emissions per vehicle made in 2022 by -2.8% – while at the same time producing a record-high proportion of electrified veh …

The ‘zero emissions’ port stay is getting closer and closer in the city of Valencia. …

Seres, a subsidiary belonging to the Chinese Sokon Group, has delivered the first units of its all-electric SUV model Seres 5 in Europe. …

German automakers' expectations are at their worst since the 2008 financial crisis because of inflationary pressures, weak economic growth in Europe and punishing competition from Tesla as well as Chinese automakers, a new survey found. …

Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s leading ports group, has published its Annual Review 2023. …

BYD is planning to build three production facilities on a former Ford industrial site in Brazil: one for the production of electric and hybrid cars, one for chassis for electric buses and trucks, and a third that will process lithium and …

Germany is set to spend less than half of the funds originally planned on the modernisation of its ailing railway system, report business daily Handelsblatt and other media outlets. …