Wednesday, 07 APRIL 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has pledged major funds in support of the UN Decade of Road Safety, to improve commercial road transport safety.The Presidential Executive of the International Road Transport Union (IRU) has endorsed the goals of the UN Resolution on Road Safety by committing to allocate USD 2 million to the UN road safety implementation plan named “Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020”.
For the IRU and all of its 180 members in 74 countries on the 5 continents, road safety always has been, is and will remain a top priority issue. In fact, for every true professional every accident is one too many.
In its great efforts to further improve road safety, the IRU is committed to supporting the goals of the UN Resolution as well as the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. In this respect the IRU supports the UN Resolution objectives to broaden the geographic scope and the implementation of the road safety projects foreseen.
Tuesday, 16 FEBRUARY 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
According to the Madrid-based business analysis firm DBK, Spanish road transport has shed a quarter of its turnover in two years.
In 2008, Spanish drivers already had to contend with market shrinkage to the tune of 5.8%, reducing revenue from the sector to 18 billion euros.
Last year, the fall was much greater still 20% according to DBK, cutting the country's road transport turnover to 14.5 billion euros.
