[Comparing the figures from December 2016 and the same month in the year before, the heavy truck registrations within the European Union grew by 16.1 percent. The country with the most gain is Italy (+ 200 percent).
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In good shape?
[In its Logistics Performance Index (LPI), the World Bank ranks 160 states according to different logistics criteria – including the “quality of trade and transport-related infrastructure”.
A tough challenge
[Results of the Freight Connections survey on the current state of global trade relations.
Gasping for air
[Europe’s big cities getting serious: Will diesels soon be banished from city centers?
Netherlands is worldchampion!
[DHL Global Connectedness Index shows: global connectedness increases continualy and Netherlands is the world’s most connected country
Don’t break the porcelain
[China wants to be recognized by the West as a market economy and hopes that this will lead to import facilitation. But Europe is not cooperating.
Short survey: Global trade – heading for the right direction?
Global trade – heading for the right direction?
Talk is Golden
[By 2019, the European Union aims to create the conditions for communication between vehicles and traffic infrastructure and thus reduce congestion and accidents.
Back on common ground
[After a year working with different General Terms and Conditions, the logistics associations in Germany have once again agreed on a common set of rules for the transportation industry. It has been in place since the start of the year.