UIRR puts policy vision on the table for Combined Transport

The new year is off to a blasting start, at least if you’re wondering about what rail freight parties want to achieve in the near future policy-wise. After Germany, the Netherlands and European rail freight, it is now the Combined Transport (CT) association UIRR that is putting its policy expectations for the years 2024-2029 on the table in a 12-page document.

“Door-to-door combined transport is ideally suited to serve as the backbone of European freight logistics, as a carrier of regular flows of goods throughout the European Union and between continents”, UIRR writes. However, it points out, a failed attempt to revise the Combined Transport Directive, decreasing impact of support measures,…