Wednesday, 07 APRIL 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
The European Commissioner for Transport, Siim Kallas, has not given his approval for cross-border ecocombi tests."Cross-border transport with longer and sometimes heavier road combinations is not authorised, by virtue of the Directive on weights and dimensions in road transport". This was the response of European Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas to the German Green MEPMichael Cramer, who had quizzed the Commissioner about the cross-border tests with 25.25-m road combinations between Hamburg and Odense (Denmark).
However, no measures would be implemented to prohibit these tests, he added, provided no Member States objected to them.
TAGS : ecocombi,, transport,
Monday, 22 FEBRUARY 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
It is common for the directorate generals (DG) of the European Commission to undergo modifications following the installation of a new executive team.
Under the current Barroso II regime, the former DG Transport & Energy (known as DG TREN) has been split into two, with Transport becoming an autonomous unit with the full name of Directorate General for Mobility and Transport, or DG MOVE for short.
It is also worth nothing that the Galileo project no longer comes under the remit of the Transport Commission. It is now run by the DG Industry, under the leadership of Antonio Tajani (the former Transport Commissioner).
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.
