Press Releases

• Working together is key to challenges and opportunities in emerging markets
  The XXVIIIth IRU World Congress in Bucharest concluded with all participating Member Associations signing a Declaration that calls on governmental and commercial partners to work together with the road transport sector to remove barriers to sustainable growth.
  

• 1,000 IRU Academy Graduates confirm value of internationally recognised diploma
  The IRU World Congress in Bucharest sees the presentation of the 1,000th IRU Academy Diploma, confirming the value of an internationally recognised professional qualification. IRU Academy Diplomas in the CPC for Road Transport Managers can now be gained at Accredited Training Institutes in 18 countries.
  

• IRU World Congress showcases Globetrucker humanitarian venture
  Globetrucker, a Swiss private venture taking humanitarian supplies to orphanages and schools in deprived areas of the world, joined the IRU World Congress on 31 May 2002. The IRU is partnering Globetrucker, which highlights the important contribution of road transport to bettering the condition of mankind.
  

• China Road Transport Association joins IRU
  The China Road Transport Association has been admitted to the IRU as an Associate Member, bringing the IRU’s vision of a “Revitalised Silk Road” a step closer to becoming reality.
  

• IRU salutes its heroes
  The IRU Grand Prix d’Honneur 2002 is awarded to Walter Lehmann and Bruno Saba, both of whom helped save fellow road users from death, on the A1 motorway near Zürich and in the St Gotthard tunnel, Switzerland.
  

• IRU conventions to facilitate international transport & logistics partnerships
  The IRU’s Goods Transport Council has adopted a Transport Outline Convention and an Outline Convention for Logistic Services, to provide a legal framework for partnerships between companies based in different countries.
  

• Alpine transit restrictions are costly neo-protectionism!
  The IRU Goods Transport Council has unanimously called on the Austrian, French and Swiss governments to end costly, neo-protectionist restrictions on Alpine transit by HGVs. The Ecopoint system and the one-way restrictions in the Mont Blanc and St Gotthard tunnels inflate transport costs, decrease safety and increase environmental impact.
  

• IRU expands information on waiting times at borders
  The IRU today signs a Memorandum of Understanding with 12 Member Associations in Central and Eastern Europe, intended to improve and extend the flow of information on waiting times at borders. Facilitation of international commerce, a major priority for the IRU, will help to reducing such waiting times.
  

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