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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). …

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. …

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. …

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). …

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. …

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. …

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. …

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. …

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

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

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. …

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 …

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

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 …

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

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. …