European shippers demand their air cargo providers to be transparent on their consignments. ESC Policy Manager in Air Transport Rogier Spoel told CARGOFORWARDER GLOBAL that […]
Year: 2017 and earlier
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With the development of the Chinese initiative One belt One Road that involves a lot of countries and entities, efficient cooperation is required between all […]
ESC together with the other associations, such as CLECAT and IRU, has asked the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union to reduce the […]
Sustainability is gaining importance in different transport modes. For the air freight, is it essential to have a sustainability KPI as well. The best way […]
ESC expresses its disappointment with the Block Exemption Regulation (BER) for vessel sharing agreements (VSA) published recently by the Hong Kong competition authority. The regulation […]
This year has seen a lot of changes in the maritime sector that have had a negative impact on shippers. ESC has been working with […]
ESC welcomes the closer collaboration between Hong Kong and ASEAN countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. A free trade agreement (FTA) between Hong Kong […]
Supply chains during the first months after Brexit day are predicted to become unreliable. If the UK government does not manage to have a deal […]
The European Commission has published its ‘Mobility Package’ at the end of May 2017 which aims to help the sector to remain competitive in what is […]
As a result of a landslide in Germany in mid-August, the railway line between Karlsruhe and Basel has been closed. As the line is an […]
As announced previously in several publications, ESC called for the meeting with the relevant European authorities, DG Competition, to discuss the container capacity crunch, the […]
On 13 June 2017, the European Shippers Council was invited to address the CEOs of rail infrastructure managers during their annual meeting in Sopron, Hungary. Jean-Christophe […]
The 8th Cluster for Logistics Conference: Cooperation in Intermodality and Innovation that took place on the 30th of May 2017 stressed again a need for […]
What should shippers do? June 6th, 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Yemen and Libya announced that they were severing ties with Qatar due to […]
DG TAXUD has announced that it will be impossible to finalize the automation systems needed for the full implementation of the Union Customs Code before […]