Year: 2017 and earlier

114 posts

Benelux and India go digital

India and the Benelux have now reached an agreement on digital documents for, among others, food and vegetables. A pilot for the use of digital […]

Core project and its pilots

CORE project through its research and demonstrations has created key tools to make global trade and logistics highly efficient and secure. The CORE business cases […]

Council on digitalisation of transport

European Shippers’ Council welcomes The conclusions of the Council of the European Union on the importance of digitalisation for the European economy and competitiveness. ESC […]

The “black box” opened by DTLF

Connecting business processes across stakeholders in a supply chain data pipeline is beneficial and at the same time safe and secure. But the transport part […]

Cooperation on CO2 to save money

According to Sophie Punte, the Executive Director of the Smart Freight Centre, “if all partners contribute we can realize double digit CO2 reductions. Carriers and […]

Second part of Mobility Package

The European Commission has published the second part of the Mobility Package. This part is focused mainly on environmental aspects of transport as well as […]

GHG emissions: briefing from IMO

The latest session of the International Maritime Organisation on greenhouse gas emissions took place in October 2017. This set out the outline of a strategy […]

OBOR conference

Bruges, 23 November, European Shippers’ Council together with the College of Europe held their international conference “The Belt and Road Initiative: EU-China Logistics and Supply […]

CORE project survey: visibility tool

In one of the subprojects of CORE, a freight forwarder is developing a Visibility Tool to adapt security controls in real time from pick-up to […]

AUTF Air Freight Council

ESC’s French member, AUTF (Association des Utilisateurs de Transport de Fret), organises its next Airfreight Council in Paris on the 8th of December, 2017. It […]

CORE at Intermodal, 28-30 November

During the Intermodal 2017 Conference that will take place in Amsterdam on the 28th – 30th of November, ESC together with SEACON and TNO will […]

Maritime Transport Council (members)

ESC members are welcome to join the ESC internal Maritime Transport Council meeting in Brussels on the 29th of November. As the ESC Maritime Day […]