Year: 2018

126 posts

ESC annual report 2017

ESC is delighted to share its 2017 annual report underlining the achievements and new priorities of the European Shippers’ Council. Please read the report here.

Legal customs developments in China

China is pushing forward Free Trade Agreements talks with more than 20 economies along the Belt and Road Initiative. During the last years, the country […]

Mobility package debated at ECG event

Brussels, 20 March 2018, ESC attended the annual Dinner Debate organised by the Association of European Vehicles Logistics (ECG) and hosted by Wim van de Camp, […]

France to tax foreign trucks

French Transport Minister Ms Elisabeth Borne plans to start a legislative process to tax foreign trucks. A definitive decision will be taken before the end […]

Transport for Future

ESC – Transprime seminar Transport for Future Barcelona, 17 May 2018 The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) together with the Spanish Shippers’ Council Transprime are organising a […]

Airport slot allocation as a tool for growth

European Shippers’ Council encourages national governments to look closely into the slots allocation problem. Already now, members of the national parliaments are discussing additional criteria: […]

Survey: container shipping service

RESPOND TO SURVEY ESC – Drewry survey Quality of Container Shipping Service Deadline to complete: 20 April 2018 Shippers are encouraged to participate in the survey […]

Final CORE Event

Brussels, 11 April 2018, the European Shippers’ Council together with CLECAT held the Final CORE Event ‘The Supply Chain Unchained’. Fostering the data pipeline has […]

Shippers call for action on looming trade wars

Hong Kong, March 27, 2018 The Global Shippers’ Alliance (GSA) representing  major shippers’ organisations from Asia, Europe, and the US, calls on world leaders to solve the dispute […]

ESC attends GSA annual meeting

This week ESC is attending the annual meeting of the Global Shippers’ Alliance in Hong Kong and Macao. For more information, please see here.

Estimated Time of Arrival for rail

ELETA – Electronic Exchange of ETA information – is a co-financed project under Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), launched in September 2017. Coordinated by Koninklijk Nederlands […]

SAVE THE DATE

Seminar Transport for Future Barcelona, 17 May 2018 Please save this date in your diary. We will return to you with a registration form in […]

Benelux starts pilot with e-CMR

5 March 2018 Benelux launched a pilot to use electronic documents at the border-crossing. Although Belgium has not ratified the e-CMR protocol of the CMR […]

Shift2Rail JU call is open

The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking has published the 2018 call for proposals, projects worth €155.3 million will be financed under the 2018 Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R […]

CORE technology

CORE, the global supply chain project, is driving the implementation of new technologies to speed up the supply chain, improve quality and efficiency, and to […]