Tuesday, 04 MAY 2010 - CATEGORY : PRESS RELEASES
The VIALTIS Group, road services expert and leader in cost reduction, announces its new organisation and launches a high added value range of services intended to increase its competitive advantage in France and across Europe.
Aix en Provence, 4 May 2010:
Having recently relocated to its new headquarters in Aix-en-Provence, France, in 2009, the VIALTIS Group is today introducing a new range of services aimed at significantly optimising the operating costs of road transport companies.
To this end, the Group has structured its new offering to include various complementary areas, Road hauliers may now access an integrated, scalable and customised range of services, according to their needs.
Sebastian Schmitt, CEO of VIALTIS stated: "We are proud to introduce our new range of services. This will enable us, at this time of crisis, to better meet the specific needs of road hauliers, looking to optimise their operating costs in order to remain competitive. VIALTIS is there to help them in this.”
Introducing the new range of services from the VIALTIS Group:
- Diesel Optimisation Programme
VIALTIS provides independent advice to carriers and offers very attractive commission-free diesel services supported by the most competitive fuel networks in Europe.
Today, its network of partners includes independent and local oil companies offering the best prices in their markets, and also major international oil companies. To complete this service, VIALTIS has developed a website: myVialtis.com.
In addition, VIALTIS helps its customers to significantly reduce their fuel costs through reimbursement of all the taxes they are entitled to reclaim (France, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, and Italy). VIALTIS provides unique expertise on the tax regulations in force in each state and offers a comprehensive management of diesel tax refund applications up to the point of reimbursement.
- Foreign VAT recovery & financing
In the context of the new VAT Directive 2010, which makes provision for the electronic processing of claims, VIALTIS has invested significantly in its IT system and has integrated new technologies.
VIALTIS not only continues to ensure the recovery of VAT for its customers in 29 countries, but will soon give them the opportunity to optimise their cash flow, with the guarantee of a VAT refund in less than 10 days, in countries where this was not previously available.
- Net invoicing
With VIALTIS, customers can benefit from the automatic deduction of VAT on RoadBox/TIS-PL and GO-BOX electronic toll bills (in France/Spain and Austria respectively).
- Tolls and road charges
VIALTIS manages all types of payments for its customers (cards and badges) in Europe for motorways and the Mont Blanc /Frejus tunnels, with a single contract. The Group liaises with all the different operators (responsible for orders, invoices and replacements) and provides daily online information for monitoring transactions in detail.
- Booking via ferry and train
With a single call or click, VIALTIS, with its subsidiary TRANSCAMION, enables online booking of over 1,300 ferry and rail connections regardless of the merchandise carried. In many situations, sea/road and rail/road are the fastest and most reliable means of transport for cargo and drivers, as there is no need to worry about traffic, driving day and night, or legal resting time.
- RoadPass card service
With a single card, customers can benefit from multiple support services in Europe and simplified payment of tolls and ferries. Thanks to an extensive network of specialist providers and a multilingual technical platform, the teams at VIALTIS are able to assist carriers on all European roads and motorways, 24/7. VIALTIS covers all the hazards of the road across Europe and offers a bespoke pay-per-use service.
About VIALTIS
VIALTIS is a service company dedicated to international road transport companies. As a privileged partner of the IRU (International Road Transport Union), the Group has 10 offices in Europe with 6000 customers in over 40 countries.
Since 1982, VIALTIS has developed lasting relationships with carriers of all sizes, thanks to its professionalism and expertise and by offering its customers substantial reductions in their charges. An independent road services expert, its business activities revolve around seven areas of competence: fuel, recovery of foreign VAT, tax refunds on diesel fuel, tolls and road taxes, ferry and train bookings, financing, and the RoadPass service card.
http://www.vialtis.com
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Aix en Provence, 4 May 2010:
Having recently relocated to its new headquarters in Aix-en-Provence, France, in 2009, the VIALTIS Group is today introducing a new range of services aimed at significantly optimising the operating costs of road transport companies.
To this end, the Group has structured its new offering to include various complementary areas, Road hauliers may now access an integrated, scalable and customised range of services, according to their needs.
Sebastian Schmitt, CEO of VIALTIS stated: "We are proud to introduce our new range of services. This will enable us, at this time of crisis, to better meet the specific needs of road hauliers, looking to optimise their operating costs in order to remain competitive. VIALTIS is there to help them in this.”
Introducing the new range of services from the VIALTIS Group:
- Diesel Optimisation Programme
VIALTIS provides independent advice to carriers and offers very attractive commission-free diesel services supported by the most competitive fuel networks in Europe.
Today, its network of partners includes independent and local oil companies offering the best prices in their markets, and also major international oil companies. To complete this service, VIALTIS has developed a website: myVialtis.com.
In addition, VIALTIS helps its customers to significantly reduce their fuel costs through reimbursement of all the taxes they are entitled to reclaim (France, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, and Italy). VIALTIS provides unique expertise on the tax regulations in force in each state and offers a comprehensive management of diesel tax refund applications up to the point of reimbursement.
- Foreign VAT recovery & financing
In the context of the new VAT Directive 2010, which makes provision for the electronic processing of claims, VIALTIS has invested significantly in its IT system and has integrated new technologies.
VIALTIS not only continues to ensure the recovery of VAT for its customers in 29 countries, but will soon give them the opportunity to optimise their cash flow, with the guarantee of a VAT refund in less than 10 days, in countries where this was not previously available.
- Net invoicing
With VIALTIS, customers can benefit from the automatic deduction of VAT on RoadBox/TIS-PL and GO-BOX electronic toll bills (in France/Spain and Austria respectively).
- Tolls and road charges
VIALTIS manages all types of payments for its customers (cards and badges) in Europe for motorways and the Mont Blanc /Frejus tunnels, with a single contract. The Group liaises with all the different operators (responsible for orders, invoices and replacements) and provides daily online information for monitoring transactions in detail.
- Booking via ferry and train
With a single call or click, VIALTIS, with its subsidiary TRANSCAMION, enables online booking of over 1,300 ferry and rail connections regardless of the merchandise carried. In many situations, sea/road and rail/road are the fastest and most reliable means of transport for cargo and drivers, as there is no need to worry about traffic, driving day and night, or legal resting time.
- RoadPass card service
With a single card, customers can benefit from multiple support services in Europe and simplified payment of tolls and ferries. Thanks to an extensive network of specialist providers and a multilingual technical platform, the teams at VIALTIS are able to assist carriers on all European roads and motorways, 24/7. VIALTIS covers all the hazards of the road across Europe and offers a bespoke pay-per-use service.
About VIALTIS
VIALTIS is a service company dedicated to international road transport companies. As a privileged partner of the IRU (International Road Transport Union), the Group has 10 offices in Europe with 6000 customers in over 40 countries.
Since 1982, VIALTIS has developed lasting relationships with carriers of all sizes, thanks to its professionalism and expertise and by offering its customers substantial reductions in their charges. An independent road services expert, its business activities revolve around seven areas of competence: fuel, recovery of foreign VAT, tax refunds on diesel fuel, tolls and road taxes, ferry and train bookings, financing, and the RoadPass service card.
http://www.vialtis.com
TAGS : new_organisation, range_of_services
Tuesday, 23 FEBRUARY 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
More concerns have been raised regarding the potential impact of biofuels. This time, it's the environmental organisation Transport & Environment (T&E) which has entered the debate.
According to T&E, the European Commission is refusing to publish the results of scientific research which indicate that the certain biofuels would generate more harmful emissions than traditional forms of fossil fuel energy.
Also according to the environmental group, a new report commissioned several years ago by the European Commission would offer a precise inventory of the deforestation (for use as cultivatable land) that biofuel production would provoke.
TAGS : Biofuels
Wednesday, 27 JANUARY 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
The European Commission has given its green light for the public funding by France and Spain of the Fres Mos project, which will link the French port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire with the Spanish port of Gijon.
This Motorways of the Sea project will also receive an EU grant within the framework of the 2009 Marco Polo II call for proposals, in which the Commission selected twenty-two projects with overall funding of 66.3 million. With these projects, the Commission expects to shift a total of 16.8 billion tonne/kilometres of freight away from the roads.
The Fres Mos Motorways of the Sea project intends to capture between three and five per cent of the road traffic passing through the western part of the Pyrenees. It is expected to reduce road traffic by around 40 000 trucks a year, a figure that is likely to double in five years.
The Fres Mos project will receive EU funding of approximately 4 million from the Marco Polo II programme. Furthermore, the Commission has also approved complementary state aid for the project amounting to 30 million, of which France and Spain will each grant 15 million. The overall financing of the project will be limited to 35% of the eligible costs within the first four years of its operation, in line with the applicable EU rules on state aid.
