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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...

In view of this week’s Transport Council and the debate it will hold on the 2015 Annual Growth Survey and transport policy’s contribution to EU Competitiveness...

Open letter to Council urging ambition in transforming rail into a customer-friendly sector 10th March 2015 The undersigned Associations support simple changes...

Open letter on the Commission proposal for a Regulation establishing a European Fund for Strategic Investments Brussels, 11 February 2015 The undersigned...

The industry associations of intermodal and combined transport, as well as inland navigation and railways continue to endorse the modal-shift targets of the...

Taking 21 months after the end of the reporting period, the European Union statistics services (EUROSTAT) published its report concerning 2012 Inland Freight...

Several European transport industry associations came together on UIRR's initiative to jointly identify best practice in a series of important aspects of...

On 15 May the General Assembly of UIRR has drawn the balance of the business year of European Combined Transport and its industry association, UIRR. Three new...

On July 1, 2014 the transition period to mark all European loading units with an ILU-Code (or BIC-Code for containers) runs out. The new owner identification...

European transport associations in the road-rail, rail and inland waterway sector are increasingly worried about the upcoming vote in the European Parliament on...