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Members of the European Parliament endorsed new EU rules on alternative fuels infrastructure regulation (AFIR) on 11 July. …

Fragmentation and too many competitors in the European logistics market is constraining industry development and making it more difficult to achieve net zero goals, according to Automotive Logistics’ new research. …

MEPs approved new rules on more alternative fuel stations for cars and trucks, simple and easy recharging, and on cleaner maritime fuels. …

Weight limits for zero-emission trucks will increase under a new EU proposal that will help accelerate the uptake of electric and hydrogen trucks. …

Three legislative proposals, each with a specific impact on the rail sector, were published on 11 July by the European Commission as part of the Greening Freight Transport Package: a Regulation on the use of railway infrastructure capaci …

IRU welcomes the Greening Transport Package unveiled on 11 July by the European Commission. …

Volkswagen’s domestic sales of electric cars in Germany are far behind the company’s plans, insiders told business daily Handelsblatt. …

Chinese carmakers are continuing to invest in ships: the latest is the Chery Automobile/JAC Motors/Anhui Port & Shipping joint-venture, which has ordered its first car-carrier newbuilds. …

Europe is facing a Chinese electric vehicles tsunami following the ban on the sale of petrol and diesel-powered combustion engine cars from 2035, Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard said at an economic conference on Saturday, adding t …

Fiat parent Stellantis and the Italian government agreed on 10 July to aim to increase annual production in Italy to one million units, reversing a downward trend seen in recent year …

Stakeholders in the European railway sector have expressed their steadfast commitment and support for the implementation of Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC). …

Stellantis’s incoming Chief Financial Officer Natalie Knight says figuring out China is key for the automaker because of the country’s importance in the shift to electric vehicles. …

Following several months of testing with Eurotunnel's Le Shuttle Freight and "unaccompanied trailers" customers, Getlink is planning to launch Sherpass in autumn this year. …

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. …

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). …

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). …

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. …

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