by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Four major European transport and logistics organisations – IRU, CLECAT, the European Shippers’ Council, and the Global Cold Chain Alliance – have written a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urging her to abandon plans for mandatory zero-emission truck demand targets. While the sector supports the EU’s goal of decarbonising road …
Urban logistics is at a turning point. Today, last-mile operations already account for 30% of transport-related CO₂ emissions in cities. While the EU Green Deal targets a 50–55% reduction in emissions for vans and cars by 2030, many local authorities are also moving toward zero-emission zones to advance clean urban logistics. To address these challenges, …
At the Global City Logistics Conference 2023, Professor Joubert presented the results of a study on electric truck deployment for a company in South Africa. The results show that electrifying an entire fleet may not be viable initially, suggesting a hybrid fleet as a more practical intervention in the foreseeable future. Based on models on …
Shipping, aviation, and road transport will face profound changes in fuels, electrification, and infrastructure over the next three decades. DNV has quantified this in the annual Energy Transition Outlook. The Transport in Transition is a deep-dive into availability, technology development, costs, policy drivers, and likely uptake of sustainable energy sources in transport sectors through to 2050. …