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China-Europe landbridge ‘will become one of the world’s major tradelanes’

28 October 2020

DSV’s new intercontinental road bridge between China and Europe aims to take pressure off air freight and increasingly busy rail services – but offers less environmental benefits than rail.
Transit times are between 14 and 18 days, on trucks that are equipped with GPS tracking.
DSV told The Loadstar that, while it was unable as yet to provide figures on potential capacity, it had “a lot available” for the DSV Silkway Express, …

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New EC president unveils Green Deal: how to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050

11 December 2019

The new European Commission president today presented the policies of the European Green Deal, which have been largely welcomed by clean transport groups.
Ursula von der Leyen announced a package of measures to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050, which include reducing emissions by half in the next 10 years, a €100bn fund to finance the change, a carbon border tax and various industry initiatives.
Under plans for transport, aviation will see its free …

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Shipping starting to clean up its act, but aviation contrails still a concern

3 July 2019

Emissions reporting has upped the ante – with container shipping statistics labelled as “quite favourable”, while the impact on climate change from aviation contrails will triple by 2050.
The EU has released its Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) data on vessel CO2 emissions. Containerships emit 28% of CO2 emissions from international shipping into and out of the EU, or a quarter of total shipping emissions.
“To put that in context, container shipping carries about two-thirds of...

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