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Industry Alliance for MultimodalI AMCONNECTIVITY & LOGISTICS for GROWTH Press release Industry Alliance for Multimodal Connectivity and Logistics launched 21...

Rail Forum Europe seeks measures for competitive freight transport Brussels, 6 December – Adequate framework conditions should be put in place for rail freight...

The European Commission has announced its 2017 work-plan on 26 October1, which includes the revision of the Directive 92/106 concerning Combined Transport. UIRR...

Rail freight in the spotlight A series of important communications were published lately, which drive the attention of not only policymakers, but also the...

Exactly 5 years ago today, UIRR, the Administrator of the ILU-Code ( www.ilu-code.eu), issued the first ILU-Code owner-key - thus bringing to life the...

The Netherlands' Council Presidency, understanding the importance of international rail freight from the perspective of Europe's welfare, initiated the...

The Bruegel Institute published a blog-post with the above title in October 20141. Since then a lot has happened to deliver on this idea: Two, several-times...

European Combined Transport and UIRR Operators realised positive results in 2015: a 0.75% increase in consignments was coupled with a substantial 5.23% increase...

Intermodal/Combined Transport joins together at least two modes of transport to perform a transport operation. The cargo is packed into an Intermodal Loading...

The European Commission has concluded its REFIT Procedure 1 and published its Implementation Report 2. The Report has confirmed that "the Directive continues to...

The Rail Freight Corridor (RFC) concept is the only productive tool that has been invented so far to meaningfully address the issue of quality in long(er)...

Truck traffic suffocates Alpine valleys Recent reports show a surge in truck traffic crossing the Alps 1, causing congestion, pollution and an accelerated...

Following a major drop in the second half of 2014, the price of crude oil averaged well below $60 for most of this year, with quotes recently falling under the...

T he European Council has reached a major milestone by adopting its first reading position on the Political Pillar of the Fourth Railway Package during the...

Why should Directive 92/106 be recast? In view of recent findings that climate change has substantially accelerated 1, public attention will inevitably turn...

Road-Rail Combined Transport: America shows the example The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported [1] in 2014 a historic record for the number of...

Customers, passengers, independent rail operators, combined transport operators, terminal managers and environmental campaigners, call for Member States to...

The EU funded EcoHubs R&D project (Environmentally COherent measures and interventions to debottleneck HUBS of the multimodal network favoured by seamless flow...

European Combined Transport and UIRR Operators realised mixed results in 2014: a 1.1% decline in consignments coupled with a substantial, 5% increase of tonne...

(ENGLISH ONLY) An undesirable impact will result from the planned changes to the commercial conditions that are to apply on the Transalpine routes once...