A new WTO information note released on 23 February 2023 reports that global trade remained resilient and performed better than pessimistic predictions for 2022 as […]
Topic: Trade
On the 29th of November 2022, PLANET project’s Advisory Board moderated by the European Shippers Council and justASK! concentrated on looking at the PLANET project´s […]
The Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament produced a draft report on resilient supply chains in EU trade to address current shortages. In […]
Global supply chains have come under more sustained pressure in the past two years than any time in the last 70 years. Borders closed borders […]
Ministers discussed preparations for the 12th World Trade Organization ministerial conference (CM12), which will take place in Geneva from 12 to 15 June 2022 against […]
ESC President Roman Stiftner commented on the increasing market power of Chinese logistics companies. In his interview to the BVL magazine he stated that the […]
24 March 2022, European Commission published Annual Report on the implementation and application of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the […]
The EU project PLANET has published a short video summarising the background, the key objectives, and an overview of the three Living Labs contributing to […]
Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine has far-reaching consequences for logistics and trade with Ukraine and the surrounding region. ESC is first and foremost seriously concerned […]
Shipping has a vital role to play in post pandemic recovery for the EU but must not be ignored in reforms to the bloc’s trade […]
On January 25, the European Parliament Committee on International Trade held a first exchange of views on the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on the […]
Brussels, 14 December 2021 – Shippers and carriers met to talk about the causes and effects of recent supply chain disruption coinciding with the COVID […]
At the Port of Antwerp Intermodal Marketplace on the 9th of November 2021, ESC Secretary General Godfried Smit talked about current and future challenges in […]
The Commission will present its Report on the Implementation and Enforcement of EU Trade Agreements over 2020 to the members of the Parliamentary Committee on […]
11th October, 2021, the WTO issued the latest edition of its annual statistical publication, Trade Profiles, which provides a series of key indicators on merchandise […]