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Shipping’s extraordinary earnings boom powered further into uncharted territory on Friday, with Clarksons Research’s cross-sector ClarkSea Index jumping another 14% to $75,658 a day, its fourth consecutive all-time high. …

Both chambers of the Swiss Parliament approved the LSVA reform in a final vote on 2 October 2026, completing the parliamentary stage of the legislative process. …

Battery-electric vehicle sales surged in September across 12 major European markets, capturing a record share as higher fuel prices and affordable new models accelerated the shift away from gasoline and diesel vehicles. …

The UK new car market accelerated in September, with registrations up 12.1% to 350,518 units, according to preliminary figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).1 The result marks a 10th consecutive …

Five Dutch seaports are urging European policymakers to turn the European Ports Strategy into practical, funded measures. …

The study compares battery-electric and diesel long-haul trucks across nine EU markets: the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, Belgium, Poland, Spain and Italy. …

The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) has examined whether freight forwarding liability insurance should become a greater focus of its work, acknowledging the increasingly important role freight forwarders play in managing g …

The start of October will be particularly important for companies operating on the Iberian Peninsula and in south-eastern Europe. Romania is replacing the existing vignette model for trucks with charges based on the distance travelled. …

Finished vehicle logistics in North America is operating under a combination of pressures few networks have had to absorb at once. …

German port strike risk is a timely reminder that visibility alone does not create resilience. …

At this year’s Connecting Europe Days event in Brussels, representatives from politics, business and the transport sector are meeting to discuss the future expansion of Europe’s transport infrastructure. …

The European Union is reportedly urging the UK to raise its tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. …

Shipping spent another week discovering that the same forces making it extraordinarily profitable are also storing up the ingredients for its next downturn. …

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and Deltalinqs have welcomed plans by TenneT and Stedin to accelerate the availability of additional electricity capacity in Rotterdam’s Europoort area. …

For over half a century, Britain and Europe’s automotive sectors have been pivotal to each other’s success. Even with Brexit, both sides continue to trade and invest heavily in one another’s markets, manufacturing and supply chains. …

The vehicles cross more than 60 borders via Central Asia, the Caucasus and Türkiye, the IRU said following a logistics conference in Beijing on 22 September. …

US President Donald Trump treated Chinese President Xi Jinping to a rare personal airport welcome Wednesday, kicking off a pomp-filled state visit aimed at smoothing superpower tensions on everything from AI and trade to Iran. …

Hybrid-electric vehicles ranked as the most popular powertrain choice amongst buyers, while battery-electric cars accounted for 21.7% of new EU car registrations. Meanwhile, plug-in hybrids captured 10% of the EU market. …

European policymakers no longer view ports simply as places where containers are loaded and unloaded. …

European new-car registrations rose 4.6 percent in August to 835,409 vehicles, driven by a 52 percent surge in battery-electric vehicles that helped electrified powertrains claim more than half the market for the first time. …